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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Molten salt reactors spark interest in USA and Denmark
06 April, 2018
Terrestrial Energy USA and Energy Northwest on 31 March signed a memorandum of understanding on possible siting, construction and operation of an Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in southeastern Idaho. Terrestrial Energy USA, part of Terrestrial Energy Inc, is developing the IMSR for deployment in the US market. Terrestrial's IMSR integrates the primary reactor components, including the graphite moderator, into a sealed and replaceable reactor core. The reactor, which can produce 400MWt (190MWe), is a modular design for factory fabrication. Terrestrial hopes the IMSR can be brought to market in the 2020s and began a feasibility study in 2017 to site a commercial IMSR at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' Chalk River site. The reactor design has already completed the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Regulatory Commission's vendor design review. It announced in January that it plans to submit an application for design certification or for a construction permit to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission by October 2019.
US accident tolerant fuels to begin tests
15 February, 2018
US-based Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) said on 8 February that it had manufactured and shipped batches of test assemblies of its IronClad and Armor accident tolerant fuels (ATFs) for installation at Southern Nuclear Operating Company’s two-unit Hatch nuclear plant in early 2018.
Russian physicists announce advance in nuclear fuel research
05 January, 2017
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (JIHT) of the Russian Academy of Sciences have identified the mobility of line defects, or dislocations, in uranium dioxide.
Lithuania regulator accepts modified used fuel containers
27 July, 2015
Lithuania's nuclear regulator, VATESI, has granted a positive safety statement on the Constor RBMK1500/M2 containers, supplied by Germany's GNS, and intended for storage of used nuclear fuel from the two RBMK reactors at Ignalina, which is now being decommissioned.
EDF Energy publishes AGR graphite loss levels
11 July, 2014
The operator of the UK’s 14 advanced gas-cooled reactors has released information about the ageing of the graphite blocks in the reactor core, which roughly corresponds to about a 10% loss of weight over the fleet.
IAEA reviews TEPCO’s Fukushima roadmap
29 May, 2013
The IAEA has reviewed the TEPCO short- and medium-term plan to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It said that although a relatively stable cooling of the fuel (and fuel debris) in the reactors and spent fuel pools has been established and is adequately removing decay heat, there are several challenges to achieve a sustainable situation.
JRC calls for fuel benchmarking
14 March, 2007
Europe agrees renewables and climate targets
12 March, 2007
