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The controlled self-sustaining fission chain reaction began at Kakrapar unit 4 in the early hours of 17 December, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has announced. The Indian government has also confirmed it has completed the land purchase for the construction of two 700 MWe reactors at Chutka.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-reactor-reaches-first-criticality
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has given its permission for the first approach to criticality of unit 4 at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant. The unit is the second of two Indian-designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) being built at the site in Gujarat.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 15 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-regulator-gives-go-ahead-for-reactor-start
South Korea has begun preparations to begin building a nuclear fusion reactor after 2035. It aims to produce electric power around 2050 in a bid to keep up with the intensifying international competition for the future clean and limitless energy, the Ministry of Science, Information & Communication Technology said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssouth-korea-plans-to-build-fusion-reactor-after-2035-10638362
India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has granted permission for excavation to begin for two 700MWe indigenously developed pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) at the Kaiga NPP in Karnataka, PTI reported.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindian-regulator-approves-construction-of-two-new-units-in-karnataka-9649590
CCNS will provide CAD1m (€680,000) in funding to help Canada-based Moltex demonstrate the technical viability of a new process to recycle used Candu fuel.
When removed from an operating reactor, used Candu fuel still contains energy in the form of fissionable uranium and plutonium isotopes, which cannot be used without removing fission products. Moltex’s process would recover these energy resources and prepare them for use as new fuel in other advanced reactor designs, potentially reducing the volume of the material requiring long-term storage in a deep geological repository.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 01 April 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-and-moltex-launch-project-to-recycle-used-fuel-from-candu-reactors-3-3-2021
India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed a process to harvest medical-grade ruthenium-160, allowing the indigenous production of plaques of the material for use in eye cancer therapy. Ruthenium is a fission by-product of the nuclear reprocessing cycle.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/India-produces-first-indigenous-eye-cancer-treatme
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's (ANSTO) medical isotope production facility announced in January that it had become the second in the world to install a high-resolution monitoring system to track emissions from its medical radioisotopes production facility under an initiative led by the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
ANSTO and PNNL said the detector system was installed in October at the medical isotope production facility at Lucas Heights. The first such system had been installed in a monitor stack at the Institute for Radioelements (IRE) at Fleurus in Belgium. Both IRE and ANSTO produce molybdenum-99 by irradiating uranium in a reactor. The process releases gaseous fission products including xenon isotopes. While representing no danger to the public, the isotopes resemble those produced by a nuclear explosion.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansto-installs-emissions-monitoring-equipment-6970285
A report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on 8 October warns that unprecedented change is needed to limit global warming. The special report, “Global Warming of 1.5 degrees”, was commissioned by governments at the Paris climate talks in 2015. It will inform the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland in December.
The IPCC said in a statment accompanying the repor that limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C "would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society".
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 15 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsipcc-issues-alert-on-climate-change-6801217
A large increase in the use of nuclear power would help keep global warming to below 1.5 degrees, according to a United Nations report published today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report - Global Warming of 1.5 degrees - was commissioned by governments at the Paris climate talks in 2015 and will inform the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland this December.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 08 October 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UN-report-shows-increased-need-for-nuclear
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) paper has looked at an alternative method for producing molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which could help increase the supply of the key medical isotope.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-looks-at-alternative-mo-99-production-method-5712928