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Ghana has commissioned three new nuclear faciliies – the Low-Enriched...
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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories launches research initiative for SMRs
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has announced the launch of the Canadian Nuclear Research Initiative (CNRI), to enable research and development to accelerate the deployment of...
Russia and Bolivia strengthen co-operation
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and Bolivia’s Ministry of Energy signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on the development of industrial and research projects in the...
US funding for molten salt technology
The US Department of Energy (DOE's) Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded Moltex Energy USA $2.55 million to develop technologies to reduce Stable Salt...
Russia signs further agreement for CNST in Vietnam
Russian State Atomic Corporation Rosatom has signed a memorandum with Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology on the implementation of Centre for Nuclear Science and...
South Korean nuclear research centre planned for Saudi Arabia
South Korea plans to set up a joint nuclear energy research centre in Saudi Arabia, the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology said on 14 May.
Wood to lead UK digital research programme
Wood has been appointed by the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to lead the second phase of a digital reactor design research programme.
Russia upgrades key fast neutron critical stand in Obninsk
Russia’s AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk has begun commissioning of a upgraded complex of critical stands (BFS) to better conduct research on...
Bolivian nuclear research centre to be completed ahead of schedule
The Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN) has approved the detailed design documentation for the construction of administrative and residential facilities for a Centre for...
More US funding for advanced reactors
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 27 March announced funding of $19 million for four domestic advanced nuclear technology projects.
Vattenfall joins EPRI's nuclear research programme
The US-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has announced that Sweden-based Vattenfall has joined its nuclear research programme.
Holtec’s SMR-160 sparks interest in Ukraine
Ukraine’s nuclear utility Energoatom is planning to set up a consortium to investigate the environmental and technical feasibility of qualifying a generic SMR-160 small modular...
Poland looks to high temperature reactors
Poland’s Energy Ministry has signed an agreement with the National Centre for Research and Development to support development of high-temperature gas cooled reactors (HTRs) reactors...
NRG awarded funding for nuclear medicine research centre
Netherlands-based Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group NRG announced that the Kansen voor West organisation has awarded a subsidy of €6.8 million ($7.7 million) to develop FIELD-LAB,...
US DOE announced nuclear research funding
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced on 20 December that it is collaborating with industry on six new projects focused on...
US DOE signs SMR MOU
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the US Department of Energy (DOE), Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), and Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA),...
Russia to use highly enriched Ni-63 for atomic batteries
Russia cancels new technologies federal target programme
Russia’s government has cancelled implementation of the federal target programme (FTP) "Nuclear power technologies of the new generation for the period 2010-2015 and up to 2020" ahead...
UKAEA to design UK thermal-hydraulic facility
The UK and Welsh governments have appointed the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop an outline design the UK's proposed £40 million national thermal-hydraulic research...
Rosatom requests more funding for fast reactors
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has initiated a national programme “The development of atomic science, technology and technology”, involving the allocation of about...
