Nuclear Energy News in France
| 12/21/2024 - EDF teams have achieved the first connection of the Flamanville EPR to the national grid at 11:48am. The reactor is now generating electricity. Since the first nuclear reaction on 3 Sep... |
| 12/6/2024 - The General Arrangement, which summarizes the details of cooperation regarding the development of fast reactors, was updated between the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Edu... |
| 12/5/2024 - Otrera, a spin-off of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and a laureate of the France 2030 program, has successfully closed its first funding round, raising €2.5 millio... |
| 11/29/2024 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Shikoku Electric Power Co. Inc. (Shikoku) to supply 24 MOX(Note1) fuel assemblies for Unit 3 of the Ikata Nuclear Power Station, subs... |
| 10/18/2024 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Kyushu Electric Power Co. Inc. (Kyushu) to supply MOX(Note1) fuel assemblies for Unit 3 of the Genkai Nuclear Power Station. Under th... |
| 5/31/2024 - EDF announces the completion of the acquisition of GE Vernova's steam nuclear activities covering conventional island equipment for nuclear power plants[1] excluding servicing activities in the Americ... |
| 5/20/2024 - · Order for 12 units in addition to the six currently in production, giving MHI responsibility for production of units for 18 of the total 54 divertors · Manufacture and delivery of major compone... |
| 5/13/2024 - EDF (BBB stable S&P / Baa1 stable Moody’s / BBB+ stable Fitch) announces the signature of green bank loans for a total amount of c. €5.8 billion (1). They have maturities of between 3 and 5 years. |
| 5/7/2024 - Framatome and Naval Group have signed a contract to manufacture the forgings for the two new K22 nuclear boilers of France’s new generation aircraft carrier (PA-NG), scheduled to be commissioned in 2... |
| 4/30/2024 - Bureau Veritas reaffirms its commitment to sustainable energy solutions as a founding member of the Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO), an international membership organization for stakeholde... |
| 4/19/2024 - Framatome and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have signed a cooperation agreement to establish the industrialization process of molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) monolithic fuel for the TUM-operated ... |
| 4/9/2024 - Newcleo, the clean and safe nuclear technology company developing innovative Generation IV reactors using nuclear waste as fuel, was founded in September 2021 with an ambitious vision: to develop the ... |
| 4/4/2024 - AMG Critical Materials N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") is pleased to announce the formation of NewMOX SAS, Grenoble, France, to service the nuclear fuel market. NewMOX is a subsidiary of ALD V... |
| 2/6/2024 - Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) and Assystem, an international engineering, digital services and project management company, today announced their partnership to accelerate th... |
| 2/1/2024 - Started in 2021, the 3F2E collaborative project has sought to develop special optical fibers with innovative metallic coatings for sensing applications in nuclear environments, and other harsh environ... |
| 12/21/2023 - EDF nuclear generation for 2026 in France is estimated between 335 and 365TWh (1).
The estimate for nuclear generation in France is confirmed in the range 315-345TWh for 2024 and 335-365TWh for 202... |
| 12/13/2023 - Jacobs (NYSE: J) was selected to support Naarea, a French start-up which is developing a new nuclear power reactor, by assisting with nuclear safety as well as several engineering disciplines includi... |
| 11/28/2023 - IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met President Emmanuel Macron on Monday as part of his three-day visit to France this week. President Macron expressed his support of the IAEA’s activities ... |
| 11/28/2023 - EDF has announced the signing of several cooperation agreements involving Canadian, Czech, French and Indian, partners, during the inaugural day of the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) 2023 in Paris. Th... |
| 7/21/2023 - NUWARD Announces the Submission of the NUWARD SMR Safety Options File to the French Safety Authority (ASN), which marks the start of the prelicensing process. The safety options file (DOS) i... |
