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US suspends financial participation in Iter
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe USA has admitted that it will have to suspend financial participation in the Iter experimental fusion reactor project due to cuts in the federal research…
"Pac-Man" molecule munches uranium
Source: World Nuclear NewsResearchers have designed a molecule that can "eat" and then "trick" uranium into behaving like a lighter molecule. It could lead to developments in waste management…
China to work on Candu technology
Source: World Nuclear NewsAtomic Energy of Canada Ltd and the Nuclear Power Institute of China have signed an agreement to work together on the development of low uranium consumption…
Man makes nuclear reactor in garage
Source: World Nuclear News[NBC 5, 9 January; Dallas News, 10 January] A 22-year-old man from Rockwall, Texas, has reportedly attempted to build a small-scale nuclear power reactor in his…
China contributes $1.4 billion to ITER
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: World Nuclear NewsChina will contribute 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Nuclear Reactor (ITER). Chinese researchers will build components and transport them to Cadarache,…
Agreement on testing of thorium fuels
Source: World Nuclear NewsThorium Power of the USA announced on 31 December that it had reached a new formal agreement with Russia's Kurchatov Institute relating to the irradiation testing…
Remote control tokamak
Topics: Research & TechnologySource: World Nuclear NewsA fusion reactor in Japan has been remotely controlled from Germany as part of preparation work for the multinational Iter project that could make fusion power…
Israeli nuclear complex ‘very pretty’ inside
Source: World Nuclear News[Associated Press, 2 January] The Israel Atomic Energy Commission has shown footage of the interior of the Dimona nuclear complex at a jobs fair at Ben…
Canadian isotope production restarts
Source: World Nuclear NewsCanada's National Research Universal reactor (NRU) returned to service in the early hours of 16 December, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has confirmed. The removal…
Texas establishes Nuclear Power Institute
Source: World Nuclear NewsA Nuclear Power Institute (NPI) is to be established at Texas A&M University to ensure the state has sufficient qualified workers for its growing nuclear power…
IBM defines knowledge management aims
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe IBM Nuclear Power Advisory Council held its inaugural meeting last week, emerging with a list of 'top nuclear power industry imperatives'. The meeting was held…
Grants for carbon-fibre composites research
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant to a researcher from Clemson University to study the use of carbon fibres to enhance the…
Atmea begins reactor development
Source: World Nuclear NewsAtmea – the 50-50 joint venture between Areva of France and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) – has officially started, the two companies announced on 7…
Canadian reactor outage hits nuclear medicine supply
Source: World Nuclear NewsOperator Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) has announced an extension of an outage at a Canadian research reactor used to produce radioisotopes for nuclear medicine.…
Iran produces fuel pellets for Arak
Source: World Nuclear News[IRNA, 24 November] The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, announced that Iran had produced the first nuclear fuel pellets…
European energy developments on fast track
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe European Commission has announced plans to speed up energy technology developments including Generation IV reactors. Meanwhile, a cross-party group of 56 members of the European…
South Korea wins some GNEP research
Source: World Nuclear NewsS tudies into reactor cores of very high-temperature reactors and 'advanced burner reactors' will be carried out by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Kaeri) under…
JNFL starts hot testing cascades
Source: World Nuclear NewsJapan Nuclear Fuels Ltd (JNFL) reported on 12 November that it had started hot tests using uranium hexafluoride (UF6) on the cascade of its advanced centrifuge…
Sparton seeks uranium in Chinese germanium plant waste
Source: World Nuclear NewsSparton Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hua Jun Coal Mine to study the extraction of uranium from waste material produced at a…