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Tech group signs deal with Kairos Power to build up to 7 small facilities to meet its energy needs
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/google-signs-world-first-deal-to-buy-power-from-small-modular-reactors-for-data-centres-10-2-2024
New Mexico plant will produce high-purity molten salt coolant
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 05 October 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kairos-power-begins-work-on-salt-production-facility-for-kp-fhr-nuclear-reactor-10-5-2024
Kairos Power’s Hermes low-power demonstration unit could be operational at Oak Ridge site in 2027
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 01 August 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/work-begins-on-first-generation-iv-nuclear-power-plant-in-us-7-3-2024
Company planning for anticipated demand from advanced reactor deployment
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 19 July 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/bwxt-to-cooperate-with-wyoming-on-evaluation-of-potential-sites-7-4-2024
BWX Technologies Inc has signed a cooperation agreement with the Wyoming Energy Authority to evaluate locations for a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel production facility in the state.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 19 July 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-considers-locating-TRISO-plant-in-Wyoming
The UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have signed a memorandum of collaboration (MOC) on coated particle fuel for use in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-and-japan-strengthen-collaboration-on-htgr-fuel-11712871
A USD148.5 million federal tax credit has been awarded to X-energy for the construction of the first-of-a-kind facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TX-1 fuel fabrication plant will be constructed by the company's TRISO-X subsidiary and is designed to produce up to 714,000 TRISO fuel pebbles per year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/X-energy-awarded-federal-tax-credit-for-TRISO-fuel
France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to establish the industrialisation process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the university's FRM II research reactor. Framatome noted this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever realised in Europe for research reactor operations.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Production-to-begin-of-innovative-fuel-for-German
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has closed its Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) reactor at the Lucas Heights nuclear medicine precinct to undergo necessary upgrades and maintenance. OPAL is a state-of-the-art 20 MWt multi-purpose reactor that uses low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The $300m OPAL reactor, supplied by Argentina’s INVAP, was opened in 2007 with an estimated design life of 60 years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanstos-opal-reactor-closed-for-upgrades-11688878
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