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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $59m in funding...
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KHNP looks to digital twin technology for nuclear plant operations
Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) says it is developing digital twin technology to monitor and control South Korea’s 26 nuclear power units more effectively. A digital model of a...
Iran reviews nuclear achievements
The President of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said Iran had unveiled 150 scientific and technological achievements in the nuclear industry in the...
Rosatom lists results of science and technology development programme
Rosatom has listed the result for 2023 of the state programme: “Development of Engineering, Technologies & Scientific Research (RTTN Razvitii Tekhniki Tekhnologii I...
Tomsk Polytechnic University joins Russian project on irradiated graphite
Tomsk Polytechnic University has joined Russia’s project on the experimental determination of the radiation characteristics of the irradiated graphite from uranium-graphite reactors....
China opens nuclear research facilities to encourage global cooperation
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has opened ten of its key nuclear technology research facilities and testing platforms to the world for the first time to encourage...
Full-Life Technologies approved to construct radioisotope facility
Full-Life Technologies says its subsidiary, Full-Life Technology Europe, has obtained a Nuclear Permit for a class IIA facility from the Belgium Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC...
Russia’s Atomexpo 2024 breaks records
Russia’s annual International Forum on Nuclear Energy, Atomexpo, which was recently held over two days in Sochi on the Black Sea coast set a record for the number of...
South Korea to develop next-gen nuclear reactors
South Korea's Ministry of Science & ICT (MSIT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with eight Korean companies to cooperate on the development of next-generation...
France awards grants for research and development of molten salt reactors
Two nuclear start-ups, Stellaria and Thorizon, each in consortium with Orano, have been selected by the French government to receive funding through the France 2030 national...
Korean institute develops high-power electron-beam welding system
The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM – which reports to the Ministry of Science and ICT,) has developed a 120kV/60kW electron-beam welding system, which can weld...
ENEC and General Atomics to collaborate on integrating advanced materials with nuclear technologies
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with US-based General Atomics (GA) agreeing to work together to identify opportunities...
IAEA re-engages with Syria on nuclear energy
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi had talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a recent visit to Damascus. The Agency said...
Three companies awarded GAIN vouchers by US DOE to advance nuclear technologies
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) vouchers to three companies to accelerate the innovation and application of...
US national labs awarded funding to speed up Hanford tank waste clean-up
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded $27.3m for research & development to accelerate the Hanford Site’s tank waste clean-up mission....
ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron goes solar
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
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
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
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
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...
