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Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) of the USA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C to conduct joint research and development for the commercialisation of Hydrogen Micro Hubs over the next five years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Korean-partners-to-build-SMR-powered-hydrogen-p
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finland's Lappeenranta University of Technology to explore the deployment of a Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) in Lappeenranta. Meanwhile, USNC has signed an MoU with Canadian privately held investment firm Portland Holdings Investco Limited to promote the MMR in the Middle East, North Africa and the Caribbean regions.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Agreements-for-microreactor-deployment-in-Finland
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has informed the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it intends to construct an Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) Micro Modular Reactor on its campus. The university said the submission of the Letter of Intent is the first step in the NRC's two-step process to license the new research and test reactor facility.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-university-announces-plans-to-build-microreacto
NRG said the aim of the tests is to demonstrate the safety of the fuel for the 20-year lifespan of Seattle-based USNC’s micro modular reactor. NRG said extensive pre- and post-irradiation tests at its hot cell laboratories will be part of the programme.
FCM fuel is a next-generation tristructural-Isotropic (Triso) particle fuel design, replacing the 50-year-old graphite matrix of traditional Triso fuel with silicon carbide, a material that is extremely resistant to radiation and thermal damage.
The SiC matrix in FCM fuel provides a dense, gas-tight barrier, preventing the escape of fission products even if a Triso particle should rupture during operation. The result is a safer nuclear fuel that can withstand higher temperatures and more radiation.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/nrg-to-begin-irradiation-programme-for-usnc-s-micro-reactor-6-4-2021
Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) of the Netherlands will conduct a programme of irradiation tests on Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's (USNC's) proprietary Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel at the High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten. The aim of the tests is to demonstrate the safety of the fuel for the 20-year lifespan of the USNC's Micro Modular Reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 June 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-fuel-to-be-qualified-in-Dutch-reactor
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has established a new facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, to support the development of its proprietary Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel. Materials developed there will be used in USNC's Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) and other nuclear reactors, including gas-cooled reactors, light water reactors, CANDU reactors and molten salt cooled reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 03 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-opens-SMR-fuel-development-laboratory
Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) announced yesterday that it has designed, developed and fabricated a first-of-a-kind system to clad its used fuel containers (UFCs) with copper through an electroplating process. Oakville, Ontario-based NWMO says the copper will prevent corrosion of the steel UFCs, which will eventually be used to contain and isolate Canada’s used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canada-develops-copper-cladding-for-used-fuel-cask
Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) announced yesterday that it has designed, developed and fabricated a first-of-a-kind system to clad its used fuel containers (UFCs) with copper through an electroplating process. Oakville, Ontario-based NWMO says the copper will prevent corrosion of the steel UFCs, which will eventually be used to contain and isolate Canada’s used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canada-develops-copper-cladding-for-used-fuel-cask
US Holtec International and Canada’s SNC-Lavalin announced on 17 July that they had formalised an agreement to collaborate on Holtec’s SMR-160 Small Modular Reactor programme. The partnership aims “to vigorously accelerate the reactor system’s ongoing development and international licensing efforts by linking SNC-Lavalin’s world-class Nuclear team with Holtec’s SMR team”. SNC-Lavalin specialises in the design and supply of nuclear reactors as well as reactor products and services. The company “was greatly enhanced" by the 2011 purchase of the commercial reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited along with the development and marketing rights to Candu reactor technology, the statement said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsholtec-and-snc-lavalin-to-collaborate-on-smr-160-5875086
The question of how to secure a steady supply of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) and technetium-99 (Tc-99m) was the main theme of Japan Radioisotope Association's annual meeting, held from 1-3 July in Tokyo.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 21 July 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-discusses-radioisotope-shortage