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Moscow accounts for more than 20% of nuclear fuels for American reactors
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/house-approves-legislation-to-ban-imports-of-russian-uranium-12-2-2023
Japan, the UK, Canada, the US and France have agreed to co-operate to reduce dependence on Russia as a supplier of nuclear materials and technology. Their statement was issued at the Nuclear Energy Forum being held in Japan’s Sapporo alongside the meeting of Group of Seven (G7) ministers on climate, energy and environment. It was published on the UK government website.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfive-g7-nations-aim-to-cut-dependence-on-russian-nuclear-technology-10770200
Hungary will veto any EU sanctions imposed on Russian nuclear energy organisations and enterprises, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the morning programme one Kossuth radio.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 February 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-will-veto-any-eu-sanctions-against-russias-nuclear-sector-10558203
After leading the 14-member Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzia (ISAMZ), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi summarised the situation at the NPP sayng that the physical integrity of the plant had been violated.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 06 September 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newszaporizhizhia-physical-integrity-violated-9977999
According to Tass, specialists will replace 24 steam generator modules at the 560 -MW plant as part of a project to extend its service life until 2040. The unit began commercial operation in November 1981. Work will also include inspection of the reactor, turbine equipment and security systems.
In April 2020, Russia’s nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor granted a licence for Beloyarsk-3 to operate until 2025. The BN-600 is the only fast breeder reactor that has operated for 40 years.
A second plant at the Beloyarsk site, the 820-MW BN-800 fast breeder reactor Beloyarsk-4, began commercial operation in October 2016.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 09 April 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/work-to-begin-on-beloyarsk-3-life-extension-to-60-years-4-4-2021
Electrochemical Plant (ECP), a subsidiary of Rosatom's nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL, recorded a 14% increase in revenue from the sale of stable isotopes in 2020, exceeding RUB1.5 billion (USD20.1 million) for the first time. The Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk-based company's global market share of the stable isotope market remains over 40%, TVEL said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 27 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-revenue-from-stable-isotopes-rises-by-14
The UK-based New Nuclear Watch Institute (NNWI), an industry supported think-tank, has published a 28-page report “On the Role of Nuclear Power in the Development of a European Hydrogen Economy”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnnwi-report-looks-at-nuclears-role-in-hydrogen-production-8415416
A Memorandum of Association for the Development of Additive Technologies was signed in Russia on 3 December on the sidelines of the Leader Forum “Additive Technologies. Expanding horizons”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 08 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-sets-up-association-for-the-development-of-additive-technologies-8397177
Russia’s Lepse floating technical base (PTB) in the Murmansk Region will be sealed and transferred for long-term storage to the village of Sayda Guba, where a long-term ground storage facility for reactor compartments is located, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-in-cleaning-up-the-russian-arctic-8089745
The unloading of used nuclear fuel from Russian storage facilities at the former onshore technical base of the Navy in in Andreeva Bay near Murmansk is planned to be fully completed by 2027, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on 6 August. The Andreeva Bay storage facility established in the 1960s, is the largest such facility in Northwest Russia and one of the biggest in the world. To date more than 30% of the fuel has been removed from Andreeva Bay and sent for processing. Nuclear waste management company RosRAO (part of Rosatom) began unloading spent nuclear fuel from the Andreeva Bay base in May 2017.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-fuel-removal-from-russias-andreeva-bay-to-be-completed-by-2027-8073673