Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with small modular reactor (SMR) project development company Kärnfull Next. Kärnfull Next is investigating the possibility of building and operating SMRs on the Studsvik industrial site near Nyköping on the east coast of Sweden.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has just finished its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on Kairos Power's application for a construction permit for the Hermes demonstration molten salt reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The NRC have recommended that the permit should be issued.
China's imports of Russian nuclear materials hit record-high in 2022 english-kyodonews.net
Poland currently operates a single research reactor called Maria. It has no operational nuclear power plants. It is going to start construction of a plant with three Westinghouse AP1000 reactors in 2026. Poland also intends to build small modular reactors.
Rooppur fuel passes inspection as onsite work progresses world-mclear-news.org
Nuclear fusion is a potential source of clean electricity that could have a myriad of uses that could help mitigate climate change. Fusion releases huge amounts of energy by combining light elements in the form of plasma. Plasma is the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that makes up ninety-nine percent of the visible universe.
Rooppur fuel passes inspection as onsite work progresses world-mclear-news.org
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a project to construct a prototype of a fusion reactor. Thirty-five different countries are collaborating to build ITER. The European Union (plus Switzerland and the U.K.) are contributing almost half of the cost of its construction. Six other members of the collaboration are contributing equally to the rest of the cost.
Australian company Silex Systems Ltd. has been developing full-scale laser system modules for deployment in Global Lasers Enrichment (GLE) commercial demonstration facility in the U.S. Testing has been completed on the second module.
Gentilly 2 was Québec’s only operating nuclear power plant in 2012. It had an installed capacity of six hundred and seventy-five megawatts of electricity. In September of 2012, the provincial government announced that a planned refurbishment of the plant would no longer proceed. The Candu reactor is located on the south shore of the Fleuve Saint Lurent (Saint Lawrence River) in the town of Becancour.
The Australian government is no longer considering siting a national low and intermediate-level radioactive waste facility in Napandee near Kimba in South Australia. A federal court handed down a decision to dismiss a 2021 declaration naming Napandee as the proposed site for the facility. The federal government said that it will not appeal the decision.
UK adds security conditions to EDF purchase of GE unit world-nuclear-news.org
General Fusion (GF) is a private fusion developer based in Canada. GF has just announced plans for a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine. The MTF is designed to achieve fusion conditions of over one hundred million degrees Celsius by 2025. GF hopes to reach breakeven by 2026.
