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Orano has completed construction of a new laboratory for the production of stable isotopes at its Tricastin site. The French nuclear fuel cycle company said the laboratory - the first one of its kind in France - will begin operations in the second half of 2023.

Date: Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-completes-new-stable-isotopes-laboratory

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on 10 April unveiled 133 new nuclear achievements in the provinces of Tehran, Markazi, Isfahan, Alborz and Qom to mark the 15th anniversary of the National Nuclear Technology Day. In a ceremony held via videoconference he gave the order for Iranian scientists to begin injecting uranium hexafluoride gas to a pilot cascade of 164 new generation IR6 centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment facility. He also announced that Iran has started mechanical testing of IR-9 centrifuges and launched an assembly line for their production.  

Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-unveils-nuclear-achievements-as-talks-continue-in-vienna-8663463

France’s Framatome recently manufactured the world’s first uranium-molybdenum and uranium-silicon objects using 3D-printed technology at its CERCA Research and Innovation Lab (CRIL).

Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-manufactures-metallic-uranium-fuel-objects-using-3d-printing-8415071

Oxford-based First Light Fusion (FLF), which is researching a number of alternative research directions to develop inertial confinement fusion ICF) for energy generation, announced on 29 August that it had successfully fired the first test ‘shot’ on one of the six limbs of its newly-constructed pulsed power machine. Machine 3 remains on track to be commissioned into service by the end of 2018, FLF said.

Date: Thursday, 30 August 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssuccessful-test-shot-for-oxford-inertial-confinement-fusion-company-6728400

UK-based First Light Fusion (FLF) is investing £3.6m ($5m) to build a pulsed power machine (Machine 3) to advance exploring nuclear fusion technology. 

Date: Friday, 16 March 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-company-seeks-to-build-pulsed-fusion-machine-6085546

The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara

Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical

Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium

A collaboration among DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) called the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, headed by Grant Logan of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD), is building an accelerator that will soon allow scientists access to warm dense matter in the laboratory.

Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaccelerator-step-towards-fusion