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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.

Source: World Nuclear News
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.

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

TerraPower of the USA and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR) have agreed to expand their existing memorandum of understanding, signed in January 2022, on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactors.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-expands-cooperation-with-Japan-on-fast

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has published a 60-page supplement to “The NEA Small Modular Reactor Dashboard”, which it published in March. The Dashboard tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Thursday, 27 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnea-issues-supplement-to-its-smr-dashboard-11030329

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.

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

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been selected by the Japanese government to lead the conceptual design of a demonstration sodium-cooled fast reactor that is to enter operation in the 2040s.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 13 July 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/MHI-to-develop-Japanese-fast-reactor

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.

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