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The shipment earlier this year of heat source plutonium-238 from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to its Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) represents a critical step toward fuelling planned space missions with radioisotope power systems, NASA had said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnasa-moves-closer-to-use-of-plutonium-238-to-power-space-missions-11335593
Kairos Power says its Engineering Test Unit (ETU) in Albuquerque has become the largest FLiBe system in the world. Kairos commissioned the plant in partnership with Materion Corporation to produce high-purity fluoride salt coolant – known as FLiBe – a eutectic mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskairos-claims-operation-of-worlds-largest-flibe-system-11315280
NuScale Power and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are to collaborate on a techno-economic assessment (TEA), studying a NuScale small modular reactor's ability to implement a cost-effective steam heat augmentation design.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NuScale,-ORNL-to-assess-SMR-use-by-industry
Centrus Energy Corp has made its first delivery of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) to the US Department of Energy, (DOE). This completes Phase One of its contract with DOE by demonstrating its HALEU production process. Phase Two will now begin, which requires a full year of HALEU production at the rate of 900 kilograms a year using its American Centrifuge Plant (ACO) in Piketon, Ohio.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 11 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscentrus-delivers-first-haleu-to-us-doe-11286837
TerraPower of the USA and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR) have agreed to expand their existing memorandum of understanding, signed in January 2022, on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-expands-cooperation-with-Japan-on-fast
Enrichment operation have begun at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio operated by American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp (ACO). Doe said the demonstration project is on track to produce 20 kilograms of HALEU by the end of 2023.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 14 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-demonstration-project-begins-enrichment-in-ohio-11216435
Domestic source of production crucial for next-generation nuclear plants
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 14 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/centrus-begins-enrichment-operations-as-washington-aims-to-end-russian-monopoly-on-haleu-for-advanced-reactors-10-5-2023
US nuclear fuel and services company Centrus Energy Corp has begun enrichment operations at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The company said it expects to begin withdrawing high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) product later this month.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 13 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Enrichment-operations-start-at-US-HALEU-plant
Company begins formal process of seeking federal approval for repowering of reactor
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/holtec-sets-august-2025-target-date-for-restarting-michigan-nuclear-plant-10-1-2023
Framatome has been awarded a USD1 million contract for the second phase of the digital twin-based Diagnostics for Nuclear Auxiliary Systems project to commercialise automated diagnostic technology for nuclear plant auxiliary systems, which it says will lead to savings in operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for the current light-water reactor fleet.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-to-commercialise-digital-twin-based-diag