HD Hyundai, TerraPower to commercialize next-gen SMR

HD Hyundai, TerraPower to commercialize next-gen SMR

South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., is deepening its partnership with TerraPower LLC, the US nuclear venture f...

KHNP, Westinghouse end legal dispute; Korea nears Czech nuclear deal

KHNP, Westinghouse end legal dispute; Korea nears Czech nuclear deal

South Korea's state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) said on Friday it has reached an agreement with US-based Westinghouse Electric Co...

Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor

Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) on Thursday inked a final agreement with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to r...

Doosan Enerbility to supply TerraPower's SMR equipment

Doosan Enerbility to supply TerraPower's SMR equipment

South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Thursday it signed a contract with TerraPower to supply the equipments for small modular reactor (SMR).T...

Hyundai E&C signs engineering deal for two nuclear reactors in Bulgaria

Hyundai E&C signs engineering deal for two nuclear reactors in Bulgaria

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has signed a nuclear power plant design contract with Bulgaria's state nuclear power ...

Czech anti-trust body puts signing of nuclear power deal on hold

Czech anti-trust body puts signing of nuclear power deal on hold

The Czech anti-trust body put a temporary block on the conclusion of a contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) for the construction...

South Korea to develop gas-cooled reactor with POSCO, SK, Daewoo

South Korea to develop gas-cooled reactor with POSCO, SK, Daewoo

South Korea has embarked on a 44.5 billion won ($32.3 million) project to jointly develop an advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor with related domest...

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

South Korea's POSCO E&C said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI...

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Wednesday that it signed a public-private partnership agreement for the so...

SK-backed TerraPower breaks ground on nuclear power plant in US

SK-backed TerraPower breaks ground on nuclear power plant in US

Bill Gates’ nuclear energy firm TerraPower LLC, backed by South Korean conglomerates SK Inc. and HD Hyundai Co., has broken ground on its firs...

Hyundai E&C likely to win Bulgaria’s nuclear project

Hyundai E&C likely to win Bulgaria’s nuclear project

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) was picked as the preferred bidder for Bulgaria's new nuclear react...

S.Korea to up the ante on small modular reactor foundry business

S.Korea to up the ante on small modular reactor foundry business

South Korea will nurture the small modular reactor (SMR) foundry business to revive the country’s nuclear power industry by rolling back the p...

HD KSOE seeks to build nuclear power plant ships

HD KSOE seeks to build nuclear power plant ships

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) is hastening to advance into the nuclear power plant ship market in collaboration wit...

US court rules in favor of Korea's nuclear reactor exports

US court rules in favor of Korea's nuclear reactor exports

A US district court on Monday dismissed Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s lawsuit against South Korean state-run companies to block their nuclear ...

HD Hyundai Electric wins $51 mn deal to power Neom megacity

HD Hyundai Electric wins $51 mn deal to power Neom megacity

HD Hyundai Electric Co., the electrical equipment and energy solution company under South Korea’s shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Co., has won a...

Poland kicks off approval process to import S.Korean reactors

Poland kicks off approval process to import S.Korean reactors

Poland has started an approval process to build a nuclear power plant consisting of South Korean reactors, according to foreign media reports, despi...

Daewoo E&C, KAERI to team up for nuclear tech research

Daewoo E&C, KAERI to team up for nuclear tech research

South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. (Daewoo E&C) announced on Friday that it signed a research collaboration memorandum of u...

Westinghouse, KHNP seek licensing dispute arbitration

Westinghouse, KHNP seek licensing dispute arbitration

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) and Westinghouse Electric Corp. have taken their almost one-year dispute over South Korea’s nuclear...

KHNP develops world's first accident monitoring system for nuclear reactors

KHNP develops world's first accident monitoring system for nuclear reactors

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced on Wednesday that it has successfully developed the Technical Specification Operator Support System...

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

South Korean government has initiated the design phase for a nuclear fusion power proven type reactor, taking a significant step toward harnessing n...

NuScale to build Korea’s first SMR in Uljin, home to native Korean reactors

NuScale to build Korea’s first SMR in Uljin, home to native Korean reactors

NuScale Power Corp. is expected to build its first small modular reactor (SMR) plant in South Korea in Uljin, already home to Korean native nuclear ...

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Denmark's Seaborg Technologies on Friday announced their...

S.Korea releases guidelines on development of small modular reactors

S.Korea releases guidelines on development of small modular reactors

South Korea has released guidelines on the advancement of small modular reactors (SMR), a critical sector for the domestic nuclear power industry, u...

Korea’s small nuclear reactor technology falls behind global peers

Korea’s small nuclear reactor technology falls behind global peers

South Korea’s small-sized nuclear reactor technology has fallen behind other major countries due to the years of the previous government&rsquo...

Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm

Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NuScale Power, a US company that develo...

KHNP, Westinghouse in talks to resolve Poland reactor dispute

KHNP, Westinghouse in talks to resolve Poland reactor dispute

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) and Westinghouse Electric Co. are in negotiations to settle their dispute over reactor design licensing, ...

S.Korea's science minister calls small modular reactors 'game changers'

S.Korea's science minister calls small modular reactors 'game changers'

Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho on Thursday pledged full support for the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which he called a "ga...

Korea’s nuclear power: Ample export opportunities ahead

Korea’s nuclear power: Ample export opportunities ahead

The recent energy crisis dealt a particularly hard blow to Europe given its heavy dependency on Russian gas. The world was once again awakened to th...

Seoul in talks to share nuclear plant export profits with Westinghouse

Seoul in talks to share nuclear plant export profits with Westinghouse

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. and its parent company Korea Electric Power Corp. are in discussion with Westinghouse Electric Corp. to share pr...

SK Group to display eco-friendly tech at next month's CES

SK Group to display eco-friendly tech at next month's CES

South Korea's SK Group next month will display an extended range of carbon-reducing products and technologies at CES 2023, the world's largest exhib...

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