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NuScale’s first SMR plant should be completed by 2027
Jose N Reyes, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of NuScale Power, and co-designer of the NuScale passively-cooled small nuclear reactor said the US Nuclear Regulatory...
GE Hitachi seeks BWRX-300 design review in Canada
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has submitted its 300MW BWRX-300 small modular reactor to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for a pre-licensing vendor design review.
South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries to support NuScale SMR
US-based NuScale Power and South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co (DHIC) on 29 April signed a memorandum of understanding for strategic cooperation to...
NuScale signs MOU with Romania
NuScale Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) for exchange of business and technical information on...
China signs agreement for nuclear heating demonstration project
China's State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) on 27 February signed a cooperation agreement with the municipal government of the city of Baishan in Jilin province for the...
Terrestrial Energy and NRG cooperate on molten salt reactor
US-based Terrestrial Energy and NRG (Netherlands) on 5 February announced a contract for materials testing at NRG’s High-Flux Reactor in Petten.
Design approved for Russia’s Brest experimental fast reactor
Glavgosexpertiza, Russia’s state body responsible for expert appraisal of design documentation and engineering projects, has approved the design documents of the experimental...
BWXT Canada to provide technical support to Terrestrial Energy
US-based Terrestrial Energy announced on 18 December that it had awarded BWXT Canada Ltd a design services contract to support the development of key components in its Generation...
Nuvia to be technical advisor for UK's AMR programme
UK based nuclear engineering, project management and services contractor, Nuvia, has been appointed as the Technical Advisor for phase one of the UK government’s two-phase...
US NRC issues key safety approvals for APR1400
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued final safety evaluation report and a standard design approval (SDA) for South Korea’s Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR1400).
Centrus and Doosan sign co-operation memo
US-based Centrus Energy Corp and South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 17 September to explore opportunities...
US companies and labs co-operate on molten salt technology
Terrestrial Energy USA is to cooperate with Southern Company and several US Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, in a two-year research and development (R&D) project to...
France increases fast reactor cooperation
France and Russia on 24 May agreed to strengthen technical and commercial cooperation in energy efficiency and alternative energy sources, including the development of fast...
Russia develops a fission-fusion hybrid reactor
A new fission-fusion hybrid reactor will be assembled at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute by the end of 2018, Peter Khvostenko, scientific adviser of the Kurchatov complex on...
US DOE awards $60m for advanced nuclear technology development
US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on 27 April announced $60m in support of advanced nuclear technology development for 13 projects.
More funding for Danish molten salt reactor
Denmark’s Seaborg Technologies, which is developing thorium-based Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), has received funding from an investment coalition led by Danish innovation incubator...
Canada focuses on SMRs
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) on 18 April invited small modular reactor (SMR) project developers to take part in an evaluation process for the construction and operation of an...
NRG to collaborate on Swedish lead-cooled reactor
Netherlands-based NRG announced on 11 April that it had begun a multi-year collaboration for safety analysis of the SEALER (Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor - a small modular lead...
China and Ansaldo to co-operate on lead-cooled reactor
China General Nuclear on 15 March signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Italy's Ansaldo Nucleare to cooperate on the development of key technology and system design of...
