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Workers at the Flamanville EPR have begun the process required for achieving the first nuclear reaction in the reactor following approval from the French nuclear regulator. The reactor is expected to be connected to the grid in the coming months.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 04 September 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-begins-start-up-process-for-Flamanville-EPR
Design and R&D of a megawatt lithium-cooled space nuclear reactor was the subject of a recent detailed article in the scientific journal SCIENTIA SINICA Technologica (v.54, Issue 3, pp. 365-376) co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-gives-details-of-its-nuclear-space-engine-project-11677559
Tokyo-based Itochu Corporation has agreed to accept shares of US-based fusion start-up Blue Laser Fusion (BLF) through a third-party allotment. Itochu also concluded a strategic and business alliance agreement with BLF regarding fusion energy-related businesses and other related businesses in which the laser technology developed by BLF will be used.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsitochu-forms-business-alliance-with-blue-laser-fusion-11593860
Argentina’s RA-10 multi-purpose research reactor at Ezeiza Atomic Centre (CAE - El Centro Atómico Ezeiza) in Buenos Aires province, is now about 80% completed, according to project manager Herman Blaumann. "The civil work is already finished and in terms of supplies and installations the progress is 75%. This week the reactor's reflector tank will arrive ... the installation of which is another key step in the work,” he told Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino during a tour of the facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsargentinas-ra-10-research-reactor-nearing-completion-11560383
Specialists at the GI Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP SB RAS) together with teams from other scientific organisations are testing boron carbide as a coating for the walls of the International Experimental Thermonuclear Reactor (ITER) under construction in France. Plasma burning during a thermonuclear reaction occurs at extremely high temperatures which can damage the walls of the reactor. Research is underway to find a substance that can protect against this damage.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-physicists-test-boron-carbide-as-wall-coating-for-iter-reactor-11406053
The US Department of Energy’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) programme has awarded US-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) three new grants to fund research & development projects with the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, and University of California at Los Angeles. The INFUSE award programme is intended to accelerate fusion energy development through public-private research partnerships.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 17 August 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscommonwealth-fusion-awarded-us-doe-grants-11076965
The agreement between Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, part of Russia’s TVEL, and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency, is for supplies of low-enriched fuel components for the ETRR-2 research reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVEL-signs-contract-for-Egypt-research-reactor-fue
The first rod with an additional cobalt absorber (SDPK) containing starting material for the production of cobalt-60 (Co-60) has been loaded into the RBMK reactor at unit 3 of Russia’s Kursk NPP. In total 27 SDPKs will be loaded and the neutron-physical characteristics of the reactor will be constantly monitored.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 June 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-kursk-npp-to-produce-cobalt-60-9736821
By 2030, the construction will begin of an innovative pressurised water reactor with spectral control – the VVER-S, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a presentation concerning the federal project on New Nuclear Energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-to-develop-new-vver-s-reactor-by-2030-9496687
TAE Technologies, reputedly the world's largest private fusion energy company, has entered into a partnership with Japan’s National Institute of Fusion Science enabling the two organisations to test the effects of hydrogen-boron (p-B11) fusion reactions in the NIFS Large Helical Device (LHD).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstae-technologies-partners-with-japans-nifs-for-fusion-fuel-research-9208725