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Tender announced to provide fuel for Russia’s PIK reactor
Russia’s BP Konstantinova Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics has announced a tender for the development of a core design for the PIK research reactor in Gatchina,...
Rosatom seeks foreign partners for MBIR reactor
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is hoping for foreign partners to participate in the project of the world's most powerful multipurpose fast neutron research nuclear...
IAEA concerned about possible radioisotope shortage
The production of radioisotopes used in medicine has continued during the Covid-19 pandemic. But hospitals could face shortages due to bottlenecks in transport and distribution,...
Green light for Pallas reactor
The Netherlands Council of State has given the green light for the amended zoning plan of the municipality of Schagen, opening the way for construction of the Pallas reactor.
Spain’s Ensa installs heat exchangers for Jules Horowitz Reactor
Spain’s Equipos Nucleares (Ensa) on 22 January completed the installation of three heat exchangers for the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR), under construction at Atomic &...
State funding for Russia’s MBIR reactor
Russian State Development Corporation VEB.RF and Gazprombank will finance construction of the MBIR multipurpose fast neutron research reactor being built in at the Russian Institute...
First contract for Myrrha project
Spain’s Empresarios Agrupados and Belgium’s Tractebel on 5 November signed a €7.6 million ($8.4 million) contract to design buildings and utilities for the Myrhha...
Modernisation underway at Russia’s SM research reactor
Russia’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) in Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) has completed the unloading of core of its SM reactor as part of a modernisation process and...
Italy’s Sogin to decommission the Ispra-1 research reactor
Italy’s Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA (Sogin), which is responsible nuclear decommissioning, and the Ispra Joint Research Centre (JRC) have signed the deed for the...
New record for US neutron generator
US nuclear technology companies Phoenix (focused on near-term fusion applications) and SHINE Medical Technologies (focused on medical isotope production) have achieved a new world...
Saskatchewan Slowpoke reactor ready for decommissioning
Canada’s Saskatchewan Research Council has announced that its Safe Low Power Kritical Experiment (Slowpoke) research reactor has been defuelled in preparation for its decommissioning,...
France cancels ASTRID fast reactor project
France’s Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA - Atomic & Alternative Energies Commission) is abandoning plans to build its prototype fast-breeder for...
Korea’s APR-1400 certified by US NRC
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) on 26 August received a design certificate for its APR-1400 reactor from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The certification is valid...
IAEA team assesses Nigerian research reactor safety
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Integrated Safety Assessment for Research Reactors (INSARR) team said the operator of the Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) has...
US looks to develop fast reactor
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 5 August published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register announcing that the it will develop an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to study...
Northstar completes Mo-99 facility
US-based NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has completed construction on its 20,000 square foot molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) processing facility in Beloit, Wisconsin, with equipment...
CNL to refuel Canada’s Slowpoke reactor
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced it has been awarded an $8.5 million contract by the Government of Canada to refuel the Royal Military College of Canada’s (RMC)...
Norway closes its last research reactor
The Board of Directors of Norway’s Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) has decided to permanently close its JEEP II research reactor at Kjeller.
Algerian research reactor restarts after upgrades
The Es-Salam research reactor at the Birine Nuclear Research Centre in Algeria on 20 February achieved first criticality and stable operation following an upgrade project carried out...
