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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

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.

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

At a meeting in Paris, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade & Industry industry Nishimura Yasutoshi and France’s Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher signed a joint statement to further deepen their cooperation. The ministers affirmed that the two countries will work for the maximum use of nuclear energy to ensure a stable energy supply and achieve carbon neutrality.

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-and-japan-strengthen-nuclear-cooperation-10830417

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

The US and Japan are undertaking a joint project to perform transient tests on fast reactor fuels. The experiments are part of a four-year cost-shared facility sharing initiative between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) under the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group. The experiments will use a device developed by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) that can test advanced reactor fuel experiments in its Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility.

Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-and-japan-to-test-fast-reactor-fuels-10525032

A research programme into the safety of fast reactor fuel that has been suspended since the 1990s will resume with tests due to begin at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) next month.

Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US,-Japan-work-together-on-fast-reactor-fuel-safet

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

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, opening a recent International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future (FR22) in Vienna stressed the need to develop fast reactor technology.

Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-focuses-on-fast-reactors-9648274