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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has been selected as a core company for the design, production and installation of a new research reactor in a project led by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Under a basic contract signed between MHI and JAEA, MHI is contracted by JAEA to handle all work related to the development of the new research reactor, and to begin construction.

Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-selected-as-core-company-for-new-japanese-research-reactor-11338689

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been selected to design, produce and install a new research reactor at the Monju site in a project led by Japan's national nuclear research and development agency.

Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/MHI-selected-to-build-new-Japanese-research-reacto

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), and US-based TerraPower have expanded their January 2022 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) technologies.

Date: Friday, 03 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-and-us-expand-cooperation-on-fast-reactors-11265750

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been selected as the core company in charge of the conceptual design of a demonstration fast reactor which the government aims to put into operation in the 2040s. MHI will oversee both the conceptual design as well as research and development for a sodium-cooled fast reactor in partnership with Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), an MHI Group engineering company established in 2007 to handle the development and design of fast reactors. The design work for the new reactor is scheduled to begin in fiscal 2024.

Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-to-be-responsible-for-design-of-new-japanese-fast-reactor-11014815

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has awarded UK-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International Group, a contract to support of the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) in Fukui Prefecture.

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscavendish-contracted-to-support-decommissioning-of-japans-monju-reactor-10831730

British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a contract by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to provide specialist capability in support of the decommissioning of the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (PFR).

Date: Thursday, 04 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Monju-sodium-to-be-processed-in-the-UK

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has announced that defueling has been completed at the Monju prototype spodium-cooled fast breeder reactor (FBR) in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture. The work started on 16 August, and a total of 530 fuel assemblies have now been transferred to a storage pool. These include 160 fuel assemblies being held within a sodium-filled storage tank when decommissioning of the reactor began in 2018. The other 370 assemblies remained in the sodium-filled core. These were first moved into the sodium-filled tank before being moved to the storage pond. 

Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdefuelling-completed-at-japans-monju-fbr-10115967

Tokyo decided to permanently shut down unit in 2016 Monju, near the Tsuruga nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, is a 246-MW sodium-cooled fast reactor. All the fuel assemblies at the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR), which is being decommissioned, have been transferred to a water-filled storage facility, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) said.

Fuel removal was planned to be completed by the end of 2022 and has ended on schedule, JAEA said.

When decommissioning of the plant began in 2018, 160 fuel assemblies were being stored within a sodium-filled storage tank, while 370 fuel assemblies remained within Monju's sodium-filled core.

JAEA began by removing the assemblies from the sodium-filled tank into the water-filled pond, then transferring assemblies from the core into the sodium-filled tank prior to being moved to the storage pond.

Date: Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/fuel-removal-completed-on-schedule-at-monju-prototype-fast-breeder-reactor-10-1-2022

All the fuel assemblies at the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR), which is being decommissioned, have now been transferred to a water-filled storage facility, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has announced.

Date: Saturday, 22 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defuelling-completed-at-Japan-s-Monju-reactor

UK-based Cavendish Nuclear announced on 27 August that it had been awarded   a contract by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to support decommissioning of the fast reactor at Monju, Japan

Date: Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscavendish-wins-contract-to-help-with-monju-decommissioning-7394600