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ATM No 291 2026 JUN 16
Rolls-Royce joins UK-Japan HTGR development agreement
- The JAEA, the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory, and Rolls-Royce have signed trilateral memorandums of cooperation on advancing HTGR.
- The agreements expand on previous bilateral relations and were signed during a visit to the UK by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
- HTGRs are seen as a potential way to enable decarbonization across civil, defense, and industrial applications due to their compact and rapidly deployable design.
Saskatchewan, Czech Republic aim to cooperate on SMRs and MMRs
- The Canadian province of Saskatchewan and the Czech Republic have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at facilitating clean energy solutions.
- The cooperation focuses on the development and deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) and micro modular reactors (MMRs).
- While Saskatchewan possesses the world's largest high-grade uranium mines, it currently lacks nuclear power reactors and is actively working to deploy SMRs under strategic regional plans.
Dome lifted into place on Ningde 5
- China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) successfully lifted the 270-tonne outer containment dome into place at Ningde Nuclear Power Plant unit 5.
- The installation of the 45-metre-diameter dome took less than three hours and marks the transition of the Hualong One unit from civil construction to equipment installation.
- Unit 5, which began construction in July 2024, is scheduled to enter commercial operation in 2029.