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Development of nuclear fuel 'complete' for RITM-200S floating power project
Rosatom says that the development of nuclear fuel for its Modernised Floating Power Units project - featuring RITM-200S reactors - has been completed.
Uranium & Fuel
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Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Method developed for Sellafield floc retrieval
A technique has been developed to suck up and move a sludgy radioactive substance, known as flocculant, currently stored in legacy effluent tanks at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 19 December 2022
Bureau Veritas to help ThorCon develop Indonesian plant
France-based testing, inspection and certification services provider Bureau Veritas has entered into an agreement with ThorCon for the technology qualification and subsequent development of a 500 MWe floating ThorCon molten salt reactor (TMSR-500) to be deployed in Indonesia.
New Nuclear
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Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Uranium-plutonium nitride fuel tested for BN-1200 fast reactor
Experimental fuel assemblies for the BN-600 reactor incorporating BN-1200 fuel rods have been manufactured at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk with the intention they will be loaded into the BN-600 fast neutron reactor at Beloyarsk, Russia, in 2023, Rosatom has said.
Uranium & Fuel
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Wednesday, 14 December 2022
US researchers achieve historic fusion ignition
The first ever controlled fusion experiment to produce more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it was conducted at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on 5 December - a breakthrough that has been decades in the making.
Energy & Environment
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Tuesday, 13 December 2022
NNL to develop americium-powered space batteries
The UK Space Agency and the National Nuclear Laboratory are to collaborate on the world's first space battery powered by americium-241. The isotope will be extracted from used nuclear fuel stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria.
New Nuclear
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Monday, 12 December 2022
Lightbridge, INL team up for advanced fuel development
The advanced nuclear fuel company said it expects the first phase of work under two "innovative" agreements with Idaho National Laboratory, in collaboration with the US Department of Energy, will culminate in irradiation testing of fuel samples.
Uranium & Fuel
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Monday, 12 December 2022
Robots developed for fusion find uses in space
The UK Atomic Energy Authority and the UK Satellite Applications Catapult have partnered to demonstrate how advanced remote handling and robotics technology developed for fusion energy research can be used to provide maintenance for in-orbit satellites.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Collaborators to develop SMR-based hydrogen production concept
NuScale Power, Shell Global Solutions and research participants including Idaho National Laboratory, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, Fuel Cell Energy, FPoliSolutions, and GSE Solutions will develop a clean hydrogen production system for use in small modular reactor power plants.
Energy & Environment
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Thursday, 1 December 2022
First Light teams up with CNL on tritium production
The UK's First Light Fusion plans to build a 60 MW pilot power plant based on its unique projectile fusion technology to prove the integrated engineering for electricity generation and the production of tritium. It has partnered with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to design a system for extracting tritium from the reactor.
New Nuclear
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Wednesday, 30 November 2022
UK demonstration of borehole sealing technology
Existing boreholes at the Rosemanowes quarry in Cornwall, southwest England, have been successfully sealed by Nuclear Waste Services in a demonstration of the technology it plans to use to seal boreholes drilled during the search to find a suitable location for a Geological Disposal Facility in the UK.
Waste & Recycling
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Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Funding for UK project to store hydrogen using depleted uranium
A consortium comprising EDF UK R&D, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the University of Bristol and Urenco has been awarded GBP7.7 million (USD9.3 million) in funding from the UK's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to develop a hydrogen storage solution.
Corporate
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Monday, 28 November 2022
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