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Recent studies have found that a decommissioned Soviet-era training reactor at Estonia’s port city of Paldiski contains sources of radioactivity but no nuclear fuel, according to ETV news programme Aktuaalne kaamera (AK). The reactor was one of two installed at a land-based nuclear submarine training facility for the Soviet Navy. This results were determined using fluoroscopy.The company responsible for the work, GScan, uses its own patented technology to detect naturally occurring muon radiation. Andres Nurme, project manager at GScan, said: “These are cobalt-60 radiation sources. Based on the ongoing work and its results, we can say with certainty that there is no longer any nuclear fuel in the reactors.” Most of the heaviest radiation sources are located at or near the top of the reactor lid, the investigation found.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsstudy-confirms-removal-of-all-fuel-from-decommissioned-soviet-era-reactor-11334869
A new large-scale ventilation system, also known as the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) is being commissioned at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). When completed and online, the SSCVS facility will significantly increase airflow to the WIPP underground areas. WIPP is the only US deep geological salt repository for defence-related transuranic (TRU) waste. Workers have begun testing the first set of electrical cables that will supply power to SSCVS mechanical equipment, such as motors, fans and massive air filtration units.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-air-ventilation-system-for-wipp-11334888
China's first nuclear energy heating project that covers multiple prefecture-level cities, has been put into operation in East China's Shandong province. The project, operated by the State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) is the third phase of the 900 MW nuclear power-based "Warm Nuclear No 1" project, which provides green heating to Shandong province's Haiyang and Rushan through a 23-kilometre main transport pipe. The pipe network will connect Yantai with Weihai in Shandong province.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-nuclear-energy-heating-project-begins-operation-11334908
Rosatom has finally completed dismantling of floating technical base (FTB) Lepse after 10-years of work. Construction of the Lepse began in 1934 at the Nikolaev shipyards as a regular timber transport (dry cargo carrier). However, it was never used for its intended purpose – it was scuttled when the Germans attacked the city during World War II. Attempts to restore the ship after the war proved difficult and it was handed over to Leningrad shipbuilders, where, in 1961, it was reconstruction of as a FTB for servicing the Russian nuclear fleet. The ship was equipped with a storage facility for used nuclear fuel, tanks for the collection and temporary storage of liquid radioactive waste, and production facilities for carrying out technological operations with reactor equipment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-completes-dismantling-of-floating-technical-base-lepse-11335414
Poland's Ministry of Climate & Environment has issued a decision-in-principle for a second large NPP. Two South Korean-supplied APR1400 reactors are planned in the Patnów-Konin region of Wielkopolska province in central Poland. A positive decision by the Ministry of Culture & Higher Education makes it possible to start work at the site and confirms the compliance of the planned investment with the objectives of Poland's energy policy. According to the plan, the two reactors with a total installed capacity of 2,800 MWe will provide 22 TWh of energy annually, which corresponds to 12% of current electricity demand in Poland.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspoland-approves-second-large-npp-11335518
The shipment earlier this year of heat source plutonium-238 from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to its Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) represents a critical step toward fuelling planned space missions with radioisotope power systems, NASA had said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnasa-moves-closer-to-use-of-plutonium-238-to-power-space-missions-11335593
Russia’s Novovoronezh NPP has completed a pilot 18-month fuel cycle industrial operation at unit 6 and has submitted the relevant documents to the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological & Nuclear Supervision (Rostechnadzor). After receiving an expert opinion and changing the terms of the licence, unit 6 will now be transferred to commercial operation of an 18-month fuel cycle.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnovovoronezh-npp-unit-6-moves-to-18-month-fuel-cycle-11335601
The possibility of using nuclear fuel from suppliers other than Russia’s TVEL at the Paks NPP has been legally enshrined in Hungary’s legislation. Members of the national parliament supported an amendment to the nuclear energy strategy proposed by the government. State Secretary at the Ministry of Energy Attila Steiner noted that Paks, Hungary’s only NPP currently uses nuclear fuel supplied by Rosatom enterprises.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-authorises-use-of-diverse-nuclear-fuel-sources-11335610
Sweden’s Studsvik has signed a Technology Licence Agreement with South Korea’s Dongguk Nuclear Solution, to provide engineering services to support an establishment of an inDRUM in South Korea for radioactive waste treatment. This is a long-term agreement, built on performance and milestones.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsstudsvik-signs-licence-agreement-to-develop-indrum-waste-treatment-in-south-korea-11335619
State firm says it is planning ‘successful delivery’ of large-scale EPR plants and Nuward SMR units
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/french-power-giant-signs-nuclear-agreements-to-help-secure-supply-chains-for-reactor-projects-worldwide-11-3-2023