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US national labs awarded funding to speed up Hanford tank waste clean-up
12 March, 2024
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM)...
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ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron goes solar
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 by More than 3,200 solar panels have been installed across the rooftops of the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO’s) Australian Synchrotron in Clayton. The...

South Korea allocates $3 billion for nuclear energy R&D
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has pledged to spend more than KRW4,000bn ($3bn) on nuclear energy research and development projects during his five-year term, which ends in...

Kinectrics partners with Strathclyde University on nuclear research and training
Friday, February 23, 2024 by Canada-based nuclear services company Kinectrics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UK’s University of Strathclyde to pursue nuclear research and...

Iran to hold international nuclear conference
Friday, February 23, 2024 by Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) says that Iran will hold its first international nuclear energy conference in two months. “We are holding the...

IAEA designates first collaborating centre on AI for nuclear power
Thursday, February 22, 2024 by The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has designated the Centre for Science of Information at Purdue University in the USA as the first IAEA Collaborating Centre to support...

NAAREA and Thorizon to partner on molten salt reactors
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 by France-based NAAREA (Nuclear Abundant Affordable Resourceful Energy for All) and Netherlands-based Thorizon have signed a strategic partnership agreement to advance the development...

Japan completes tests on floating seismic isolation system for SMRs
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 by A team led by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has completed a series of large-scale demonstration tests to develop a new floating seismic isolation system (FSIS) for small modular...

NLL and University of Leicester collaborate to connect academia and industry
Friday, February 09, 2024 by The UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NLL) and the University of Leicester have cemented and expanded their long-standing strategic collaboration. NLL CEO Professor Paul Howarth said: “I...

MoltexFLEX publishes new graphite research
Friday, February 09, 2024 by Scientists at UK-based MoltexFLEX have published new research on how graphite interacts with the molten salt to be used in the company’s FLEX reactor design. Together with scientists...

Assystem and Dassault Systèmes partner on advanced modular reactors
Thursday, February 08, 2024 by France-based Assystem and Dassault Systèmes are to combine their nuclear engineering and digital expertise to support the use of digital twin technology in next-generation...

NASA completes initial phase of lunar nuclear reactor project
Wednesday, February 07, 2024 by NASA has completed the initial phase of its Fission Surface Power Project, which sought to develop concept designs for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor that...

University of Manchester and Kinetrics agree on co-operation
Tuesday, February 06, 2024 by The UK University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute and Canada-based nuclear services company Kinectrics have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on...

Russia completes R&D on molten salt research reactor project
Friday, February 02, 2024 by Russia’s Mining & chemical Combine (MCC - part of Rosatom) in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk) has completed all R&D on a project for a molten salt research reactor (IZhSR -...

Kazakhstan’s nuclear industry and research facilities to strengthen co-operation
Friday, February 02, 2024 by Kazakhstan’s Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP) and Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of research for the development...

Russian specialists develop equipment to produce nitrogen for advanced fuel
Thursday, February 01, 2024 by Specialists at Russia’s AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM - part of Rosatom fuel company TVEL) have built an enlarged laboratory stand to study the...

Transmutex raises finance for thorium fuelled subcritical nuclear system
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by Geneva-based Transmutex SA has announced new round of financing to develop its nuclear energy technology”. The Swiss startup, founded in 2019 by scientists from the European...

TerraPower Isotopes distributes first of Actinium-225 samples
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by US-based TerraPower announced that the TerraPower Isotopes team has distributed the first samples of Actinium-225 to two pharmaceutical companies. The Actinium-225 will be used as...

Framatome to collaborate with Polish National Centre for Nuclear Research
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by Framatome has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Poland National Centre For Nuclear Research (NCBJ - Narodowym Centrum Badan Jadrowych) to explore...

INL receives irradiated next-generation fuel for testing
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor LWR) fuel from a commercial NPP to...

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