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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued new guidance documents to facilitate the licensing of non-light water reactor designs. The guidance is expected to significantly reduce the regulatory uncertainty for new reactor concepts that differ from conventional reactor technologies. The US Department of Energy (DOE) said this was good news for advanced reactor vendors, including two DOE demonstration projects with TerraPower and X-energy. Both companies are applying this guidance to their construction permit applications to be submitted to the NRC within the year.

Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-endorses-guidance-for-advanced-reactor-licensing-11634873

Two nuclear start-ups, Stellaria and Thorizon, each in consortium with Orano, have been selected by the French government to receive funding through the France 2030 national investment plan to develop molten salt reactors. Each consortium has been awarded a €10m ($10,8m) grant. The two projects are the result of a collaboration of several months bringing together these three companies with the aim of developing a European molten salt reactor (MSR) sector.

Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-awards-grants-for-research-and-development-of-molten-salt-reactors-11635418

Addressing Atomexpo 2024 in Sochi, southern Russia, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called for nuclear energy to remain a field of international cooperation, and expressed regret that the field was riddled with ideological debates. “As long as infrastructure determines energy cooperation, ideology should have nothing to do with [it],” he said. He added that, whereas nuclear energy had been “a victim of ideology” recently, Europe had “overcome” discrimination, “thanks mostly to the fact that France is a pro-nuclear country”. He added: “We were able to win our debates in Europe and make it recognised that generating electricity in a nuclear way is sustainable, safe and cheap.”

Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsszijjrt-criticises-politicisation-of-nuclear-energy-11635619

The US Trade and Development Agency has announced funding for a series of international workshops to advance US-led civil nuclear energy deployment in Europe and Eurasia.

Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Workshops-to-extend-US-nuclear-cooperation-with-Eu

World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the second cohort of communities selected as part of the Communities Local Energy Action Program (Communities LEAP), a technical assistance initiative intended to assist disadvantaged communities and those with historical ties to fossil fuel industries take control of their clean energy future. The 30 selected communities will receive a total of $18m in technical assistance to develop action plans that “reduce local air pollution, increase energy resilience, lower utility costs and energy burdens, and create good paying jobs”.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-announces-funding-for-clean-energy-in-disadvantaged-communities-11633086

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with US-based General Atomics (GA) agreeing to work together to identify opportunities to collaborate on the use of advanced technologies and materials for nuclear energy supply. They will also cooperate on prospects to use ENEC’s experience in developing new nuclear builds as well as investments in GA’s advanced non-light water reactors, material production and 3D manufacturing capabilities.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenec-and-general-atomics-to-collaborate-on-integrating-advanced-materials-with-nuclear-technologies-11633108

Global Laser Enrichment has decided not to submit a proposal in response to a US Department of Energy request for the acquisition of high-assay low-enriched uranium enrichment, its 51%-owner Silex Systems has announced. The company has also received regulatory approval to load uranium hexafluoride for the start of testing to demonstrate the technology it plans to use in its enrichment facility at Paducah in Kentucky.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-enrichment-company-declines-HALEU-opportunit

Uranium enrichment services provider Urenco has broken ground on an expansion of its plant in Almelo in the Netherlands. The move came as the company signed a new long-term supply contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Work-to-expand-Dutch-enrichment-plant-begins