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The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the private Japanese fusion company Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) have signed a Communication Framework Agreement to advance tritium breeding blanket technology from its conceptual stage towards commercialisation. It also lays the for future collaboration on thetritium fuel cycle, as well as remote handling and power conversion technologies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukaea-and-kyoto-fusioneering-extend-co-operation-11541228
The UK Atomic Energy Authority and the private Japanese fusion technology company Kyoto Fusioneering have signed an agreement which aims to advance tritium breeding blanket technology from its conceptual stage towards commercialisation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 22 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kyoto-Fusioneering-and-UKAEA-sign-collaboration-ag
Japan's Agency for Natural Resources & Energy (ANRE - part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry) has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as the core company to lead development of a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) programme. MHI will coordinate R&D, design, and construction of the HTGR demonstration reactor that ANRE plans to put into operation in the 2030s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-selected-as-lead-company-for-htgr-reactor-development-11032459
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd (KF) to partner on the delivery of technical services to support the growing international fusion reactor market, with a key focus on testing related to tritium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CNL,-Kyoto-Fusioneering-join-forces-for-fusion-tec
A collaboration agreement has been signed between Japan's Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to develop fusion related technologies. The first project under the collaboration will be the development of a 'fusion-grade' silicon carbide composite system.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 24 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-Japanese-partnership-to-develop-fusion-material
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
A joint team of UK and Japanese researchers have used the UK's synchrotron science facility to analyse the internal structure and composition of a radioactive particle collected from close to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 11 March 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Researchers-study-Fukushima-particle-in-close-up
China General Nuclear (CGN) has started irradiation testing of a 2SF PI-A ATF prototype accident-tolerant fuel rod in the China Mianyang Research Reactor on the Nuclear Physics campus of Institute of Nuclear Physics & Chemistry in Mianyang city, Sichuan Province.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 28 January 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-begins-testing-atf-fuel-6956476