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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