The largest civil engineering contract for the Iter project has been announced, laying a path for the construction of main buildings - including the one that will house the Tokamak reactor itself.
The latest reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its work to monitor nuclear activities in Iran, North Korea and Syria illustrate a frustrating stop-start pattern of progress. The IAEA is no longer able to give 'credible' assurance that no undisclosed activities are taking place in Iran.
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Belgium's BR2 reactor is to run an additional production cycle to guarantee supplies of vital medical isotopes while the Netherlands' HFR reactor remains out of action due to unforeseen problems. 48.jpg "Czech HEU casks (NNSA) 48")
With the completion of the final shipment of used fuel from the research reactor at Rez to Russia, all highly enriched uranium (HEU) has now been removed from the Czech Republic._81x48.jpg "Iter impression (Iosis) 81x48")
The largest civil engineering contract for the Iter project has been announced, laying a path for the construction of main buildings - including the one that will house the Tokamak reactor itself.
The Australian government is expanding the country's production of medical radioisotopes and constructing a demonstration waste treatment plant for managing the subsequent radioactive by-products.
Nearly 90 kilograms of high-enriched uranium fuel has been returned to Russia from Poland's only operating research reactor, which is now running on low-enriched uranium fuel.
A Canadian tribunal has dismissed a claim for arbitration from Nordion over the 2008 decision by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) to abandon two isotope production reactors before they began operation.
Rolls-Royce has completed the delivery of the final components of a multimillion dollar technology package for use at AECL's Chalk River site.