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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project says that the impact of COVID-19 means that its current schedule, of first plasma in 2025 and the start of deuterium-tritium operation in 2035, will need to be delayed, with the new timetable to be finalised and announced after the appointment of a new director general.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-fusion-project-preparing-to-outline-revised-t
Dr Bernard Bigot, Director-General of the Iter Organisation passed away on 14 May “due to illness”. Iter said he was “an inspirational leader for more than four decades across multiple fields of science and energy” and that his personal dedication and commitment to Iter over the past seven years shaped every aspect of the project”. Iter added: “While his untimely passing will be felt as a tragic blow to the global fusion community, Dr Bigot’s careful design and preparation of the Iter senior management team in recent years gives reassurance of the project’s continued success.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiter-director-general-bernard-bigot-dies-9701551
The completion of remediation works at the former uranium legacy sites in Shekaftar and Min-Kush, in the Kyrgyz Republic, “brings a major environmental benefit for Central Asia’s most populous region and secures the sustainability of the sites for years to come,” the European Bank forReconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on 28 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 April 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuranium-legacy-sites-remediated-in-kyrgyz-republic-9591829
The eighth European Union-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Senior Officials Meeting discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation in a range of areas, including collaboration on the development and deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine,-climate,-SMRs-EU-and-IAEA-nuclear-talks
The facility, known in Ukraine as the centralised spent nuclear fuel storage facility (CSFSF), is inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the north of the country and will be used to store spent fuel from the Rovno, Khmelnitski and South Ukraine nuclear stations.
In May 2020, Energoatom said construction and installation work had been delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic and delays restoring railway access. However, dry runs have already begun to test the facility.
The main contractor for the facility is US-based Holtec International, which also built the separate ISF-2 facility at Chernobyl for the processing of more than 21,000 fuel assemblies from Chernobyl-1, -2 and -3.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 19 November 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/energoatom-to-begin-moving-spent-fuel-to-new-chernobyl-facility-in-2022-11-4-2021
A high-ranking Egyptian delegation headed by the Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt, Mohammed Shaker, paid a working visit to one of the largest machine-building enterprises in Russia, JSC Tyazhmash on 30 July. The delegation also included: the Chairman of the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) Amged El-Wakil; NPPA Vice President Mohammed Ramadan; the Chairman of the Nuclear and Radiation Control Department of Egypt, Sami Atalla; Rosatom’s First Deputy General Director for Nuclear Energy and President of JSC ASE, Alexander Lokshin; the Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision, Alexey Ferapontov, Samara Region Governor Dmitry Azarov; the General Director of Tyazhmash JSC Andrey Trifonov, as well as project teams of the Rosatom engineering division and NPPA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshigh-ranking-egyptian-nuclear-delegation-visits-russia-dispelling-rumours-of-tension-8963506
According to local press reports, the delay of the El-Dabaa NPP to 2030 instead of 2028 reported earlier in July is due to underlying tension in relations with Russia. Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority spokesman Karim al-Adham confirmed the delay statements to the Egyptian economic newspaper Enterprise on 14 July, citing the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic as the reason.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 30 July 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsel-dabaa-nuclear-project-reported-delayed-by-political-tensions-8946026
The nuclear medicine sector is a small part of the wider nuclear industry, but it provides some of the most pioneering technologies in healthcare - and is close to making personalised medicine a reality. Antonis Kalemis, president of Nuclear Medicine Europe and business manager for molecular imaging at Siemens Healthineers, describes how nuclear medicine also tackles the most trenchant condition in modern healthcare: cancer.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Nuclear-medicine-is-crucial-for-fighting
Bulgaria’s nuclear society, Bulatom, on 14 June published its position on the main projects in the electricity industry of Bulgaria, in particular the Belene NPP project. In an earlier letter, addressed to “colleagues”, Bulatom noted: “Currently, there is an intensive debate in the society about the future of nuclear energy in our country, including the two promising projects that are in the process of structuring and selecting options for implementation: the project for construction of nuclear power on the approved new site near Kozloduy; and the project for construction of nuclear power at the Belene site.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulatom-seeks-level-playing-field-for-belene-project-8837361
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to increase by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 - the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This increase, reversing most of last year's decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being driven by a strong rebound in demand for coal in electricity generation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Coal-demand-to-boost-CO2-emissions-in-2021-says-IE