What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?

What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?

Martin Cheetham is the station director of the EDF-run Heysham 2 nuclear power plant on the Lancashire coast in northwest England. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors which were first connected to the grid in 1988. They have a combined power of 1.24 GW and had an initial design life to 2023 before being extended to 2028. The second unit at Heysham 2 power plant set a record with 940 days of continuous operation from 2014 to 2016 and the plant is now closing in on setting a new record for ...

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UxC's Anna Bryndza on uranium price reporting

UxC's Anna Bryndza on uranium price reporting

Anna Bryndza is Executive Vice President for International at nuclear industry market research and analysis company UxC, which plays a key role in the nuclear fuel cycle via its publications such as U...

12 Aug 28min

The first World Nuclear Investment Guide unveiled

The first World Nuclear Investment Guide unveiled

The inaugural World Nuclear Investment Guide aims to set out how governments, industry and financial institutions can create the conditions for the huge scale of investment required if the goal of at ...

29 Juli 27min

The US's historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissioning

The US's historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissioning

The Hanford site in the US has a history dating back to the 1940s when it was established as part of the Manhattan Project. Plutonium was produced at the site, with the last reactor shut down in 1971....

16 Juli 37min

Urenco scaling up capacity to meet rising nuclear fuel demand

Urenco scaling up capacity to meet rising nuclear fuel demand

Urenco's chief commercial officer Laurent Odeh joins us and outlines how the leading uranium enrichment company is expanding its operations in the US, the Netherlands and Germany to meet the growing d...

17 Juni 29min

Sustainability and the UK's low level waste repository

Sustainability and the UK's low level waste repository

The UK’s Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria in the North West of England has been operating for nearly seven decades, so probably for longer than any other such facility anywhere. During that time ...

22 Maj 37min

Will Spain rethink nuclear energy phase-out plan?

Will Spain rethink nuclear energy phase-out plan?

A decision is expected later this year by the Spanish government on whether to award a three-year reprieve to Almaraz nuclear power plant's units 1 and 2. They are currently scheduled to be shut down ...

6 Maj 22min

China's nuclear energy ambitions

China's nuclear energy ambitions

China has been racing ahead in terms of new nuclear capacity and new nuclear developments in recent years, and there are big plans ahead, most recently set out in the country's latest five-year plan. ...

13 Apr 48min

What should be the target time to build a new nuclear plant?

What should be the target time to build a new nuclear plant?

How long should it take from signing a contract to first concrete, to completion, for a new nuclear power plant? And what needs to be done to ensure the funding can be unlocked for new units? Those ar...

10 Feb 36min

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