News from nuclear industry

This document gathers pieces of information from around the world concerning nuclear industry. The most relevant ones are as follows. The construction of the tokamak itself will begin in 2020 at the ITER site. The J-0 stage has been achieved at the Hinkley Point C project. The second EPR Taishan-2 has reached its rated power. Because of the heat wave, the reactors of the Golfech were stopped in july and the Saint-Alban-1 reactor in august. A new step in the dismantling of the Superphenix reactor has been reached with the opening of the reactor vessel. 4 reactors instead of 2 initially planned, will equipped the first nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, this 13 billion dollar market was won by the Russian company Rosatom. For 7 years, the Curiosity rover has been wandering on March surface thanks to a thermo-electrical generator based on a charge of 4.8 kg of plutonium equipped with thermocouples. The Krsko nuclear power plant in Slovenia is managed by both Slovenia and Croatia, its unique reactor whose decommissioning was delayed by 20 years in 2016, is expected to shut down in 2043. (A.C.)