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First Light Fusion fires successful shot on Sandia National Labs Z Machine
12 March, 2024
UK-based First Light Fusion (FLF) has become the first privately funded fusion company to fire a shot on the US Sandia National Laboratories’ Z Machine in New Mexico.
The complexities of developing Accident Tolerant Fuel
07 March, 2024
Accident Tolerant Fuels are seen to offer both safety and economic benefits. Although some designs under consideration are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, it’s clear that progress is positive.
A foundation for advanced reactors
25 October, 2023
The business opportunities and deployment scenarios for advanced reactors are quite different from their larger light water cousins with a variety of sizes and scales to meet various output requirements. A new report from the US National Academy of Engineering explores the options.
IAEA launches World Fusion Outlook 2023
17 October, 2023
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, during the opening day of the 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) in London, launched the World Fusion Outlook (WFO), a new regular publication providing authoritative information and updates on fusion energy. It is expected to become a global reference for energy R&D, technology development and prospective deployment of fusion.
US DOE funds study of Lightbridge Fuel performance in NuScale SMR
12 July, 2023
US fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation says Texas A&M University (TAMU) has been awarded approximately $1m by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Nuclear Energy University Program R&D Awards to study the deployment of advanced nuclear fuels in small modular reactors (SMRs). The project will be conducted over three years and will be entirely funded by DOE. The aim is to bring together collaborative teams to solve complex problems.
Argonne National Lab supports advanced nuclear concepts
07 February, 2023
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is supporting three companies developing a range of new advanced reactor and fuel cycle concepts. The work is funded through a voucher programme provided by the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) programme established by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy.
Deep thought on disposal
03 November, 2022
Successfully creating a deep geological disposal site for high-level waste has long been a key challenge for the nuclear industry. Now, a series of breakthroughs seems to show light at the end of the tunnel
Westinghouse and EDF co-operate on accident tolerant fuel
28 July, 2022
Westinghouse Electric Company have announced a partnership with EDF to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This will be the largest R&D programme on enhanced fuel that Westinghouse has conducted in Europe to date.
Supercomputer aids SMR simulation
20 December, 2021
Understanding physical behaviour inside an operating nuclear reactor can be enhanced with simulations on a supercomputer, says Jared Sagoff
CNL to develop ‘finned’ Candu fuel
13 July, 2021
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) said on 9 July that the use of 3-D printing had opened a new range of possibilities for fuel, with new geometries, new materials, new fuel blends, and the ability to embed other materials into the fuel itself.
Fission reactions increasing at damaged Chernobyl NPP
13 May, 2021
Fission reactions have been reported again in uranium fuel masses buried beneath the reactor hall at unit 4 of the Chernobyl NPP in Ukraine which was destroyed in the 1986 explosion, Science magazine reported on 5 May. Sensors are tracking a rising number of neutrons, a signal of fission, emanating from one sub-reactor room, Anatolii Doroshenko, from the Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Safety (IPBAE) of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences, reported during discussions about dismantling the reactor. “There are many uncertainties,” said IPBAE’s Maxim Saveliev. “But we can’t rule out the possibility of [an] accident.” The neutron counts are rising slowly, Saveliev noted, and there is still time to find a solution to the threat.
Why close Hinkley Point B early?
03 March, 2021
After nearly 45 years of quietly helping to power Britain, a proactive decision has been taken to move Hinkley Point B into the defuelling phase
Intelligent approach to improve O&M
10 September, 2020
A US-funded programme is working to develop digital technologies that could improve operations and lower maintenance costs for the next generation of nuclear power plants
Irradiated graphite: what are the options?
15 July, 2020
Mike Davies, principal consultant in engineering development at Jacobs speaks to NEI about irradiated graphite, treatment options and research
VERA nuclear reactor simulation software licensed for commercial use
27 March, 2020
A software package developed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), that can predict the behaviour of nuclear reactor cores with great accuracy has been licensed commercially.
Developing the DN30
10 December, 2019
The DN30 package is used for the transport of enriched uranium hexafluoride. Franz Hilbert, Maik Hennebach and Yara van Wijk discuss design developments for higher enrichments and reprocessed uranium.
Improving models for dry storage
06 November, 2019
Collaborative research hopes to provide a more realistic understanding of cladding and cask temperatures for better spent fuel management, Aladar Csontos explains.
By the numbers
15 October, 2019
Ala Alzaben discusses the benefits of advanced numerical simulation.
Illuminating complex material behaviour
04 July, 2019
At Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, multiphysics simulation is used to shed light on the complex behaviour of nuclear fuel.
Tvel to undertake research in Czech Republic
03 July, 2019
Russia’s fuel company Tvel (a subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Czech research centre Řež (CVŘ - Centrum výzkumu Řež) for materials science studies and research.
