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Gemini Containers Return To Service At Sellafield
Source: NewsAfter extensive testing and refurbishment, the first active shipment of legacy waste drums from Magnox Harwell to Sellafield has been completed using the NDA’s Type B Gemini container fleet following a multi-million pound refurbishment, UK…
DOE Decides to Build the Versatile Test Reactor at INL
Source: Neutron BytesDOE Decides to Build the Versatile Test Reactor at INL NRC To Certify NuScale Small Modular Reactor NRC Issues Final EIS for License Renewal of Westinghouse Fuel Fabrication Facility Westinghouse & Bechtel Complete Study for…
US / DOE Confirms Plans To Go Ahead With Versatile Test Reactor In Idaho
Source: NucNetThe US Department of Energy has chosen a design to build a multibillion-dollar test nuclear reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory that could help develop fuels and technologies for advanced nuclear reactors. The Versatile Test…
Cameco / Earnings Soar As Company Warns Of ‘Too Much Focus’ On Intermittent Renewables
Source: NucNetThe president and chief executive officer of Canadian uranium company Cameco – which this week announced higher-than-expected core profit amid increases in uranium prices – has warned of “too much focus” on intermittent renewables and…
Accident Tolerant Fuel / Westinghouse And EDF To Work Together On EnCore Deployment In France
Source: NucNetUS-based nuclear company Westinghouse has announced a partnership with France’s state power company and nuclear operator EDF to explore EnCore accident tolerant fuel technology for potential deployment across the French nuclear fleet after 2030. EnCore,…
Cernadvoda Project Design Contract Goes To Candu Energy
Source: NewsRomanian utility Nuclearelectrica said it had contracted SNC-Lavalin Group member Candu Energy for engineering and design services connected to refurbishing the Unit 1 reactor at the Cernadvoda Nuclear Power Plant.
India / Delayed Kakrapar-3 To Begin Commercial Operation By End Of Year, Says Minister
Source: NucNetThe Kakrapar-3 nuclear power plant in Gujarat state, western India, will begin commercial operation by the end of the year, atomic energy minister Jitendra Singh said in a written supply to the Lok Sabha, the…
Slovakia / EBRD Announces Dismantling Landmark At Soviet-Era Bohunice Reactors
Topics: Fuel & WasteSource: NucNetTwo Soviet-era reactors at the Bohunice nuclear power station in Slovakia have been fully dismantled and the components decontaminated for safe storage or recycling. The work was funded through the Bohunice International Decommissioning Support Fund…
UK Gives Go-Ahead for Sizewell C Nuclear Power Plant
Source: Neutron BytesUK Gives Go-Ahead for Sizewell C Nuclear Power Plant EDF to Address Taishan Fuel Rod Issues for Hinkley Point and Sizewell EPR Reactors Holtec Submits Federal Loan Application For $7.4 Billion SMR Plan Kairos Power…
Turkey / Concrete Pouring Marks Start Of Construction Phase At Akkuyu-4
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetFirst safety related concrete has been poured for the fourth unit at the first nuclear power station in Turkey, marking the beginning of the main construction phase, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced. Rosatom director-general…
Kairos Power And Materion To Produce Molten Salt Coolant
Source: NewsCalifornia-based Kairos Power, moving forward with development of a fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR), said Tuesday it would work with Ohio-based chemical engineer firm Materion, to create a molten salt purification pant to produce coolant…
Research Reactors / IAEA Completes First ‘Utilisation Review’ Mission
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: NucNetAn international team has completed the first International Atomic Energy Agency integrated research reactor utilisation review (IRRUR) mission, carried out on the 5 MW pool-type Rech-1 research reactor at the La Reina Nuclear Centre in…
India / Nuclear Island Components Installed For Kudankulam-3 VVER Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetAll major components have been installed for the nuclear island of the Kudankulam-3 nuclear power plant under construction in Tamil Nadu, southern India, Atomstroyexport, the engineering division of Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom said. The…
UK / £75 Million Fund Launched To Boost Production Of Nuclear Fuel
Source: NucNetA £75m (€88m, $90m) fund set up by the UK government will boost domestic production of nuclear fuel and encourage investment and expansion in new nuclear infrastructure. The government said the nuclear fuel fund will…
What’s the Holdup with the HALEU Fuel Supply Chain?
Source: Neutron BytesDevelopers of advanced nuclear reactors in the US are wound up like tops over the issue of whether DOE will be able to provide HALEU fuels for their designs in time. The agency seems to…
Two Outstanding Issues Mar Sizewell C Application
Source: NewsThe Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) in Britain said the license application for the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk had not quite made the grade with "two outstanding matters which require resolution…
Norway / Westinghouse Wins $100 Million Research Reactor Contract
Source: NucNetWestinghouse Electric Company has signed a major engineering contract with Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) to plan the decommissioning of the country’s two nuclear research reactors at Halden and Kjeller. Westinghouse said the three-year agreement includes…
China / Construction Begins Of Haiyang-3 CAP1000 Nuclear Power Plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: NucNetWorkers have completed the pouring of first safety related concrete for the nuclear island of Unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power station in Shandong province, north of Shanghai in eastern China. The concrete pouring…
OPG and X-energy Team Up for Industrial Process Heat
Source: Neutron BytesOPG and X-energy Team Up for Industrial Process Heat OPG Updates Green Bond Framework to Include Nuclear Energy TerraPower Seeks NRC Construction Approval By 2025 NRC Issues Final EIS for Holtec’s Spent Fuel Interim Storage…
Bechtel Team Wins $3B WIPP Contract
Source: NewsThe U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the engineering giant…