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Full financing approved for Pallas reactor
The Netherlands government will fully finance the cost of Pallas research reactor at Petten. Minister of Health, Welfare & Sport Ernst Kuipers has confirmed full financing for...
Bolivia receives key components for its first research reactor
The vessel of the research reactor for Bolivia’s Centre for Nuclear Research & Technology (CNRT) has been delivered to the construction site. The CNRT is being built with...
Canada renews operating licences for two Slowpoke-2 reactors
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has renewed the non-power reactor operating licence for two Slowpoke-2 research reactors. The licence held by the Royal Military College...
Rosatom begins testing MOX fuel for VVER reactors
Mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel elements intended for VVER reactors are now being tested using the Mir research reactor at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR -...
Poland’s MARIA research reactor to be upgraded
The Polish government is seeking to upgrade Poland’s only operating reactor, MARIA, located at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ - Narodowym Centrum Badań Jądrowych)...
Assembly of MBIR reactor building dome begins
Builders have begun installing the dome of the reactor building of Russia’s multi-purpose fast neutron research reactor MBIR at the industrial site of the Research Institute of...
Czech Republic launches new training reactor
The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences & Physical Engineering (FNSPE) of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague has launched its second research and training reactor, VR-2. In...
Kazakhstan research reactor switches to LEU fuel
The IVG.1M research reactor at Kazakhstan’s National Nuclear Centre (NNC) in Kurchatov, has resumed formal operation using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, following completion...
First concrete for Korea’s new research reactor
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) said first concrete has been poured for its Kijang Research Reactor (KJRR) at the Radiology Science Industrial Complex in...
Work begins on foundations for Pallas research reactor
Work has started on the foundations for the Pallas research reactor at Petten, in the municipality of Schagen in the Netherlands.
Framatome develops high density fuel for Germany’s FRM II research reactor
France’s Framatome has announced a key advance in development of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for Germany’s Forschungsreaktor München II (FRM II) research reactor,...
Rosatom completes trial assembly of research reactor for Bolivia
Russia’s Research Institute for Atomic Reactors (NIIAR - part of Rosatom) in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, hosted a ceremony marking the controlled assembly of the first...
New fuel produced for Russia’s PIK high-flux research reactor
Russia’s Mashinostroitelny Zavod in Elektrostal (MSZ, part of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL) has manufactured and delivered new second-generation nuclear fuel for the PIK research...
Belarus and Russia to build research reactor
Belarus and Russia are negotiating an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of a research nuclear reactor at the Sosny Joint Institute for Energy & Nuclear Research near...
China opens advanced nuclear research reactor to world
The China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR) at the China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC’s) China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) in Beijing is welcoming global scientists...
Ontario funds McMaster Nuclear Reactor research expansion
The Ontario government has announced CAD6.8m ($5m) in the 2023 provincial budget to strengthen the research capacity at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR). The investment, which will...
US NRC authorises restart of research reactor in Maryland
The US Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRC) has authorised the restart of the research reactor at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) Centre...
LeadCold investigates construction of research reactor in Sweden
Swedish company LeadCold has launched a feasibility study to investigate the conditions for building and operating a nuclear research reactor at Studsvik with associated fuel...
Construction licence issued for Pallas reactor
The Netherlands Nuclear and Radiation Protection Authority (ANVS - Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming) has granted a construction licence for the Pallas reactor...
