Hinkley

Hinkley Point C’s first nuclear reactor is built and ready to be delivered. The reactor pressure vessel is the first to be built for a British power station for more than 30 years. It was built in France by nuclear …

Tritium

Scientists across the world are becoming increasingly confident that nuclear technology can play a significant role in cutting global emissions before 2050. Now a new international research project will explore some of the challenges which still need to be overcome …

Fusion

Nuclear fusion: from science fiction to ‘when, not if’. When Zoltan Tompa first presented a nuclear fusion company to his Canadian government development fund’s investment committee, he viewed the technology as a “moonshot” with “an outside chance” of success. Fifteen …

Octopus

The school dropout who founded a £5bn energy firm. Octopus is already one of the UK’s biggest suppliers. Now, CEO Greg Jackson’s controversial plan to buy Bulb could make them top dog. Can Jackson even begin to understand the financial …

Hinkley

Samina Khan, Deputy Director for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Department for International Trade (DIT) and Project Delivery Advisor, Kate Hall for the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), share their …

Springfields

Westinghouse targets new UK-based uranium conversion capabilities. UK government funding of GBP13 million (USD15.9 million) will be used to help “prepare the necessary design and enabling work to begin new conversion capabilities for the world’s utilities from 2028”.The money from …

Hinkley

The world’s biggest crane, known as Big Carl, has lifted the third and final liner ring onto the unit 1 reactor building at the UK’s Hinkley Point C NPP. The 304-tonne steel liner ring was the third and final ring …