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US-based Geenex Power Unveils SMR Nuclear Plan for Amherst County, Virginia: Up to 650 MW Capacity, Construction Targeted for 2030

Charlotte, North Carolina-based clean energy developer Geenex Power officially announced on October 6, 2026, that it plans to build an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project with a capacity of up to 650 megawatts — Beck Creek Energy — in Amherst County, Virginia. During the routine public inquiry session held by the Amherst County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Geenex Project Development Manager Delany Bolton and Director of External Affairs Chris Hallameyer...

2026-10-07

U.S. Department of Energy Commits $4.2 Billion Loan to Support Vistra Nuclear Plant Expansion and Upgrade

On October 5, 2026, the Office of Energy Dominance Financing of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a commitment to provide a conditional loan of up to $4.2 billion to fund the expansion and modernization of nuclear power plants owned by Vistra Corp. in Pennsylvania and Ohio. It is understood that this investment aims to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on revitalizing the nuclear industrial base. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright stated that by increasing the power generation of existing nuclear power plants, affordable...

2026-10-06

The Qualitative Leap from "Able to Build" to "Adept at Building": An In-Depth Analysis of the Technological Breakthrough and Industrial Restructuring of the "Hualong One Version 2.0"

In September 2026, with the convening of the high-quality commencement mobilization meeting for the first batch of demonstration projects—the Phase II project of Zhejiang Jinqimen Nuclear Power Plant—and the full-scale launch of site leveling and excavation work, Hualong One Version 2.0 officially sounded the clarion call for its march from technological R&D to engineering practice. As a third-generation pressurized water reactor nuclear power model with fully independent intellectual property rights, Hualong One has undergone a decade of tempering, with 12 units in commercial operation and 35 units approved for construction, bringing the total number of units to the top of the world's third-generation nuclear power rankings and making it a globally shining national calling card. However, as nuclear power powers in Europe and America find themselves mired in supply chain degradation, runaway construction schedules, and investment black holes, and as the global small modular reactor (SMR) concept remains stuck in the tug-of-war between PowerPoint presentations and early-stage demonstrations...

2026-09-27

First Backup Emergency Diesel Generator of Hualong One Officially Available at Sanao Nuclear Power Unit 2

On October 2, the first backup emergency diesel generator (9LHW) of Hualong One completed the replacement grid connection test at Sanao Nuclear Power Unit 2 and was officially put into service. The equipment can replace any one of the original 12 emergency diesel generators (EDGs) in Phase I and Phase II projects, significantly improving the redundancy, reliability, and maintenance flexibility of the plant's emergency power supply. Sanao Nuclear Power Phase I and Phase II each have 3 emergency busbars, with one EDG configured for each busbar. However, due to the absence of cross-power supply for loads, the preventive maintenance windows of the original units were concentrated, affecting the overhaul schedule. Since 2021, Cangnan Nuclear Power has promoted the project of adding backup diesel generators, improving from the design source, building a new backup emergency diesel generator building (BDD), and constructing corridors and cables connected to each unit...

2026-10-03

US and South Korea Advance $120 Billion Nuclear Power Investment Plan: First Batch of 8 Large Units' Sites Locked in Ohio and Three Other States

The joint US-South Korea strategic investment nuclear power project in the United States has achieved a key breakthrough. According to the latest disclosed information, the site selection for 8 large nuclear power units planned to be built on US soil has begun to take shape, with the project to be located in Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Kentucky. This is the first official disclosure of the proposed states since the announcement of this hundred-billion-dollar-scale nuclear energy investment plan. US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, during a recent US-South Korea strategic investment announcement event, systematically presented this massive nuclear power engineering blueprint to the public. Lutnick...

2026-10-02

Department of Nuclear Medicine at Peking University First Hospital Receives EARL Theranostics Advanced-L2 Certification, Bringing Theranostics in Line with International Standards

The Department of Nuclear Medicine at Peking University First Hospital has recently officially received the Theranostics Advanced-L2 certification issued by EARL (EANM Research Ltd.), an affiliate of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, becoming one of the few nuclear medicine theranostics centers in China to obtain this high-level certification. The certification audit standards are rigorous, covering comprehensive dimensions including PET/CT quantitative accuracy, therapy center operations, patient safety management, and clinical competency. Passing the certification means that the department's quantitative imaging and targeted therapy data meet internationally mutually recognized standards and can achieve high-level alignment with advanced nuclear medicine centers in Europe and the United States. During the certification review, EANM President-Elect Professor Felix M. Mottaghy and Ms. Iva...

2026-10-03

Deployable Energy 1MW Microreactor UNB Achieves Initial Criticality: Scheduled to Enter INL DOME Test Bed in 2027 for Full-Power Testing

Houston-based nuclear energy startup Deployable Energy recently announced that its independently developed Microreactor, the Unity Nuclear Battery (UNB), has successfully completed its Initial Criticality Test. According to the established deployment plan, the system will officially arrive at the Demonstration and Operation of Microreactor Experiments (DOME), the dedicated microreactor test bed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), in 2027 to conduct full-power comprehensive performance testing. Although branded as a Nuclear...

2026-10-02

Indonesia Plans to Finalize the Site of Its First Nuclear Power Plant by 2027 at the Latest: Technologies from the United States, South Korea, Japan, and Russia Shortlisted for Cooperation Consideration

Elen Setiadi, Deputy Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Coordination at Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, stated on September 30 in Jakarta that the Indonesian government is comprehensively advancing the construction project of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and plans to officially finalize the construction site in 2026, or by 2027 at the latest. Indonesia aims to fully integrate advanced nuclear power into its national medium- and long-term energy supply strategy, using stable and abundant baseload electricity to support sustained domestic economic growth and industrialization transformation. At the World Resources Institute Indonesia (W...

2026-10-02

Inner Dome Concrete Pouring of Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Unit 3 Completed

On September 30, as the last batch of concrete was successfully poured into the formwork, China Nuclear Industry 24 Construction Co., Ltd. successfully completed the concrete pouring of the inner dome of the reactor building of the Hualong One Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Unit 3. The achievement of this key milestone marks the full completion of the civil construction of the inner containment for this unit, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent prestressing construction of the containment and the installation of core nuclear equipment. As an important safety barrier of the Hualong One independent third-generation nuclear power technology, the inner dome is located at the top of the nuclear island, and its core function is to ensure the integrity and absolute leak-tightness of the reactor building and prevent the leakage of radioactive substances. Faced with nuclear construction technical challenges such as the complex curved surface structure of the dome and the high difficulty of high-altitude operations, the Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Project Department...

2026-10-02

The first concrete pouring for the nuclear island of Unit 2 of State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) Guangxi Bailong Nuclear Power Project was successfully completed.

The first concrete pouring for the nuclear island of Unit 2 of SPIC Guangxi Bailong Nuclear Power Project was completed at 16:07 on September 30, after 69 hours and 40 minutes of continuous work. A total of 6,732.5 cubic meters of concrete was used for this pouring, marking another important milestone for the project after the FCD achievement for the nuclear island of Unit 1. Phase I of the Bailong Nuclear Power Project plans to build two CAP1000 nuclear power units. These two units adopt independently designed and domestically manufactured Generation III passive nuclear power technology, with each unit having a capacity of up to 1.25 million kilowatts. At present, Unit 1 has entered the construction and installation stage, and the steel containment vessel bottom head, CA20, CV1R, CA01...

2026-09-30

Pressurizer of Lufeng Nuclear Power Unit 1 Successfully Hoisted into Place

On September 30, the pressurizer of Lufeng Nuclear Power Unit 1, constructed by China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Co., Ltd., was successfully hoisted into place. The success of this hoisting marks major progress in the installation of the primary circuit main equipment in the nuclear island of Lufeng Nuclear Power Unit 1, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent surge line welding, system equipment installation, and commissioning work. The pressurizer is a core main equipment of the nuclear island reactor coolant system and a Class 1 nuclear safety equipment. It undertakes the tasks of pressure regulation and overpressure protection for the primary circuit system and is key equipment for ensuring the safe and stable operation of the reactor. This equipment is a vertical cylindrical pressure vessel with a body height of more than ten meters and a total hoisting weight of over one hundred tons. It is installed in the pressurizer compartment of the CA01 module, with stringent design and manufacturing standards...

2026-09-30

Nuctech Ray CT and Intelligent Security Inspection System Fully Operational at Fuzhou Airport T2: Nearly 300 Sets of Advanced Equipment in Service, Pioneering New Customs-Aviation Joint Inspection Model

At the early hours of September 16, with the smooth takeoff of the first departing flight MF8487, Terminal 2 of the Fuzhou Changle International Airport Phase II Expansion Project was officially put into commercial operation, marking that Fuzhou Airport has officially entered the era of dual-terminal and dual-runway operations. Relying on the nuclear technology commercialization platform of Tsinghua University, the smart civil aviation security inspection system and nearly 300 sets of full-category security inspection hardware equipment customized and developed by Nuctech for the terminal were simultaneously put into operation, fully supporting the efficient and secure flow of 36 million passenger trips per year at Terminal 2. This deployment covers all aviation security inspection nodes, including passenger carry-on baggage, checked baggage and personal inspection. Nuctech has built...

2026-09-30

Major Scientific Facility Enables Breakthrough in New Energy Materials: IHEP Leverages Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility to Reveal High-Efficiency Crystallization Mechanism of Perovskite, Sub-module Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency Reaches 22.9%

Recently, the research team at the Multidisciplinary Research Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made important progress in the study of the microscopic mechanisms of perovskite solar cell materials. The research team innovatively introduced Prussian Blue (PB) nanoframes with a high degree of lattice matching to perovskite, and leveraged a national major scientific and technological infrastructure——the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF)——to conduct multi-dimensional in-situ synchrotron radiation characterization. From the two perspectives of transient crystallization kinetics evolution and microscopic local coordination structure, they systematically elucidated for the first time the physicochemical mechanism by which Prussian Blue regulates perovskite nucleation and crystallization and suppresses ion migration. Large-area perovskite photovoltaic modules fabricated via wet...

2026-09-30

Bechtel and Westinghouse Consortium Formally Signs EPC Turnkey Contract for Poland's First Nuclear Power Plant, Construction Scheduled to Begin in 2027

A consortium comprising U.S. engineering giant Bechtel and nuclear technology supplier Westinghouse Electric Company has formally signed an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Poland's state-owned nuclear power company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) to advance the construction of Poland's first-ever commercial nuclear power plant. The nuclear project is located in Choczewo on the Baltic Sea coast in the Pomerania province of northern Poland. PEJ officially stated that the site is planned to host 3 Westinghouse AP1000 Generation III+ advanced pressurized water reactor units, with a designed total installed capacity of 3750 megawatts (3750 MWe), and the first unit is expected...

2026-09-30

State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. convened the first Party Committee (enlarged) meeting of 2026 and the second meeting of the 2026 Safety Production and Emergency Management Committee

On September 28, State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. convened the first Party Committee (enlarged) meeting of 2026 and the second meeting of the 2026 Safety Production and Emergency Management Committee. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the meeting thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives on safety production, fully implemented the relevant work requirements of the Group Company's Safety Production Deployment Enhancement and Third Quarter Safety Risk Control Meeting, comprehensively reviewed the work of the first three quarters, scientifically assessed the current safety development situation, and arranged and deployed key tasks for safety production and ecological environmental protection in the next stage. Wang Chengli, Secretary of the Company's Party Committee, Chairman, and Director of the Safety Committee...

2026-09-30