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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors is to hold an emergency meeting at the request of both Russia and Ukraine to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhia (NPP), following a series of drone attacks on the plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-board-to-hold-emergency-meeting-on-zaporizhia-npp-11676135
Rosatom fuel company TVEL and the Troitsk Institute of Innovative & Thermonuclear Research (TRINITI) have developed a technology to decontaminate radiation-contaminated metal equipment using ozone baths. TVEL says it is much more efficient than foreign counterparts, and makes it possible to significantly reduce time needed to treat secondary liquid radwaste.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-develops-new-decontamination-technology-10770017
A new Russian designed electrolysis unit has produced its first hydrogen at the Kola NPP. Hydrogen is used for cooling the turbogenerators that generate electricity at the plant. Previously this was produced by old-type alkaline electrolysers. The new ones produce hydrogen using proton-exchange membranes, which is much more environmentally friendly.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-kola-npp-produces-first-hydrogen-10486516
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has issued a statement expressing concern about the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia NPP, which has suffered shelling. He said it “underlines the very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond”. He added: “The IAEA has received information about this serious situation – the latest in a long line of increasingly alarming reports from all sides.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 09 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-grossi-expresses-extreme-concern-about-zaporizhzya-npp-9910587
Scientists of Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are investigating the behaviour of welded joints made of E110 zirconium alloy, obtained by means of laser welding with the aim of developing accident tolerant fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-chrome-coatings-to-protect-fuel-assemblies-9401086
Atommash, the Volgodonsk branch of AEM-Technologies (part of Rosatom’s mechanical engineering division Atomenergomash) has started a long-cycle operation to manufacture the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 3 of the Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkey.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 10 September 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsatommash-begins-manufacture-of-reactor-bottom-for-akkuyu-3-9067625
Atomenergomash is in the process of manufacturing the reactor pressure vessel for Turkey's new Akkuyu 3 reactor. Improvements to hand-held cutting tools have cut the time of some jobs by 75%, it said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 09 September 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Akkuyu-3-s-pressure-vessel-takes-shape
Russia’s Rusatom - Additive Technologies (RusAT, part of fuel company TVEL) has launched 3D printing of valves for ventilators. Meanwhile, another Rosatom company Sterion has stepped up efforts to sterile masks for Russian medical facilities.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 07 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-supplies-valves-for-ventilators-and-mask-sterilisation-services-7858820
Russia’s Kalinin nuclear power plant is to become a pilot site for the introduction of an innovative robotic fire extinguishing complex.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrobotic-fire-extinguishing-complex-for-russias-kalinin-nuclear-plant-7823395
Russia and Argentina have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on uranium exploration and mining in the South American country. Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is also proposing to supply Argentina with a nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-to-assist-Argentina-in-uranium-mining