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Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Ernst Kuipers has announced...
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TVEL to supply innovative fuel for Uzbek research reactor
Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan have signed a contract for the supply of modified nuclear fuel for...
Russia launches new complex to produce irradiate silicon
A new complex for nuclear doping of silicon has entered commercial operation at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) based on TPU’s IRT-T research reactor. It is the only...
Subcritical Assembly for Training, Education and Research begins operation in Philippines
After more than three decades, the Philippines is again operating a nuclear facility, the Subcritical Assembly for Training, Education and Research (SATER), according to the...
US Abilene Christian university applies to build molten salt research reactor
The Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas has said that its Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) Lab has submitted a construction permit application to build a molten...
Fusion company TAE Technologies closes $250 million financing round
After achieving temperatures greater than 75 million degrees Celsius and demonstrating real-time control of plasma with its fusion research reactor, Norman, US-based TAE Technologies...
Two IAEA mission review Chile’s research reactor
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced the completion of its first Integrated Research Reactor Utilisation Review (IRRUR) at the 5MW pool-type RECH-1 research...
Dutch regulator receives licence application for PALLAS reactor
The Netherlands nuclear regulator, Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming (ANVS) has said that the PALLAS Reactor Preparation Foundation (PALLAS) has applied for...
Accident tolerant fuel tests begin in Russia
Experimental accident tolerant fuel (ATF) elements are being tested in the MIR research reactor at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) in Dimitrovgrad, Russian fuel...
Kazakhstan restarts research reactor with LEU fuel
Kazakhstan has relaunched its IVG.1M research reactor at the Energy Ministry’s National Nuclear Centre (NNC) after it was adapted to use low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. Like many...
Contract signed for fuel supply to Egypt’s research reactor
The Egyptian Atomic Energy Organisation (EAEA) and the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP – part of Rosatom’s TVEL fuel company) have signed contract documents for the...
ONR delicenses Imperial College London Consort Reactor site
The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has formally revoked the nuclear site licence of the Imperial College London Consort Reactor site after nearly 60 years.
Czech Technical University to construct new research reactor
The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE) of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague has received a permit from the State Office for Nuclear Safety...
INL completes core overhaul for Advanced Test Reactor
US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has recently completed the sixth major core overhaul of the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), which began operation in 1967.
Netherland's HFR restarts
The High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten in the Netherlands – a major source of medical isotopes – was restarted on 17 March, NRG announced.
Construction of Russia’s MBIR reactor exceeds targets
The reactor vessel for Rosatom’s Multipurpose Fast Breeder Research Reactor (MBIR) research facility – which will be the world's largest fast neutron research reactor – will be...
HFR restart delayed at Petten
Restart of the high flux reactor (HFR) operated by NRG at Petten in the Netherlands has been delayed pending further investigation, NRG said on 25 January.
Radiopharmaceutical production equipment tested in Bolivia
The world’s highest altitude Centre for Nuclear Technology Research and Development (CNTRD) under construction by Rosatom in El Alto, Bolivia, has completed testing of...
Rosatom upgrades world's largest critical facility BFS-2
Rosatom has upgraded the world's largest critical nuclear test facility, the BFS-2 at the AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power Engineering (IPPE).
Ansaldo Nucleare signs contract for lead-cooled reactor
As part of the research into lead-cooled reactors, the consortium that unites Ansaldo Nucleare and Reinvent Energy (Romania) has been awarded a contract worth around €20 million...
