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EDF Makes Its Best Offer to NPCIL for Six EPRs at Jaitapur
Source: Neutron BytesFrance’s EDF Makes Best office to India for Six EPR Could Small-Scale Nuclear Power Be a Part of Alaska’s Future Energy Mix? Russia / Construction Start…
TRISO Fuel Successfully Fabricated in Canada
Source: Neutron BytesCanadian National Laboratory Successfully Fabricates Advanced Small Modular Reactor Fuel Canada / Power Companies’ Feasibility Study Says SMRs Can Be Economically Competitive USA Preparing To Lead…
NuScale Power gets $40M Investment from Japanese EPC
Source: Neutron BytesNuScale Power gets $40M Equity Investment from a Japanese Firm that Will Also Be Its EPC NuScale Power announced April 5 on that it has completed…
X-Energy Signs MOU to Build XE-100 at Richland, WA, Site
Source: Neutron BytesX-Energy Signs MOU to Build Advanced Reactor at Richland, WA, Site China Begins New Builds of Two New 1000 MWe Hualong One Reactors At Changjiang OPG…
Centrus Aims for HALEU Production by 2022
Source: Neutron BytesHaleu Fuel / US Production Could Begin ‘By Next Year’ Lightbridge Sets Priorities for SMR Fuel Development Olkiluoto-3 / Finland’s Regulator Issues Fuel Loading Permit For…
Moltex Gets $50.5M CDN in Gov’t Grants for its Advanced SMR
Source: Neutron BytesMoltex Receives $50.5M in Canadian Government Grants for its Advanced SMR DOD Eyes 2023 for Decision to Build Micro Reactors CEZ Can’t Make Up Its Mind…
Barakah / UAE Regulator Grants Operating License For Unit 2
Source: Neutron BytesBarakah / UAE Regulator Grants Operating License For Unit 2 India / Government Pushing Ahead With Ambitious Plan For 10 New Nuclear Reactors Czech Nuclear Regulator…
X-Energy Signs on to DOE ARDP for $80M in Initial Funding
Source: Neutron BytesX-Energy Signs on for ARDP and $80M in Initial Funding China Five-Year-Plan Includes Proposals For Up to 20 New Reactors China Commits to the ACP100 Small…
Use of Nuclear Energy to Produce Hydrogen Gains Ground
Source: Neutron BytesLucid Catalyst Report Says Nuclear Reactors, Especially SMRs, are Key to Developing a Hydrogen Economy UK / Roadmap Says Nuclear Could Produce One-Third Of Clean Hydrogen…
Speeding Up Time to Market: A Role for Standards and Reference Designs for Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the U.S.
Source: Neutron BytesThe use of reference designs in the U.S. has a good history in the form of the experience of the U.S. Railroad Administration during World War…
Finding a Path to Development of Advanced Reactors: Report
Source: Neutron BytesLeading Think Tanks Release a Strategy for Development of Advanced Nuclear Energy in the United States The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) and Partnership for Global Security…
ANS Task Force Seeks Support for Nuclear Energy R&D
Source: Neutron BytesRecommended R&D increase just 0.6% the cost of Biden climate plan A task force commissioned by the American Nuclear Society (ANS) issued an assessment of U.S.…
Montana Sees an Energy Future in Small Modular Reactors
Source: Neutron BytesNew Lamps for Old. Montana Sees an Energy Future in Small Modular Reactors Canadian SMR Developer Gets $20M boost from New Brunswick Province Brookfield Looks at…
Nuclear Propulsion Fastest Way to Get Astronauts to Mars
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: Neutron BytesA National Academy of Sciences Report recommends that NASA get moving to develop nuclear propulsion technologies that will get U.S. astronauts to Mars much faster that…
Canada’s CAMECO Boosts Silex Stake to 49%
Source: Neutron BytesIn a move to secure future supplies of high assay low enriched fuel (HALEU) for future customers with advanced small modular reactors that will need it,…
Bulgaria Says Bye Bye to Belene Again
Source: Neutron BytesBulgaria PM Switches Horses from Belene to Kozloduy China’s 1st Hualong One Goes into Revenue Service Czech Republic / China Will Be Left Out of €6B…
Christopher Hanson Named 18th NRC Chairman
Topics: Policy & RegulationSource: Neutron BytesChristopher Hanson Named NRC Chairman by President Biden — NEI Statement on Appointment of NRC Chair — NEI – Russia and China Are Dominating Nuclear Energy…
NuScale / UAMAPS Set Course for NRC COLA by 2023
Source: Neutron BytesNuScale/UAMPS To Submit COLA to NRC for Idaho Site in Three Years NuScale in UK Partners with Wind Farm Developer for a Hybrid Power Plant at…
Holtec Plans 160 MWe SMR at Oyster Creek Nuclear Site in NJ
Source: Neutron BytesHoltec Airs Plans for 160 MWe SMR at Oyster Creek, NJ, Site Holtec Submits a Key Topical Report on SMR-160 to the NRC China Starts Building…
Japan’s MOX Fuel Plan Gets a Green Light, but Reprocessing Start Delayed for Two Years
Source: Neutron BytesJapan Struggles to Make Progress with MOX Fuel Program Despite Ambitious Goals DOE ARDP Program Awards $20 million for Advanced Reactor Concepts BWXT to Start $106.6…