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California-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted US engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation to design the world's first commercial laser fusion power plant.

Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fluor-to-design-laser-fusion-power-plant

US-based laser enrichment technology developer LIS Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Curio Legacy Ventures (CLV), a subsidiary of Curio Solutions, to explore possible applications of LIS technology for efficient recovery of usable uranium isotopes from commercial used fuel.

Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslis-technologies-and-curio-to-co-operate-on-laser-reprocessing-11369723

Standard Power plans to develop small modular reactor (SMR) facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania using NuScale's reactor technology to power nearby data centres.

Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-computing-infrastructure-provider-announces-SMR

Private power generation company GS Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Uljin County in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, to consider the use of NuScale Power's small modular reactor (SMR) technology to provide heat and power to the planned Uljin Nuclear Hydrogen National Industrial Complex.

Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Korea-considers-deployment-of-NuScale-SMR-for-hydr

IAEA meeting examines potential for emerging technology The meeting was held to discuss innovations in the production and use of nuclear hydrogen. Courtesy A. Tahri/IAEA. Nuclear hydrogen can be a “game changer” in the fight against climate change by decarbonising heavy industry, energy storage and even synthetic fuel production as part of a clean energy transition, a side event at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s general conference in Vienna was told.

Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA deputy director-general and head of the department of nuclear energy, said in his opening remarks at the event – held to discuss innovations in the production and use of nuclear hydrogen – that a single 1,000 MW nuclear power reactor could produce more than 200,000 tonnes of hydrogen each year to fuel more than 400,000 fuel cell vehicles or more than 16,000 long haul fuel cell trucks.

Delegates explored developments in the coupling of nuclear power reactors with hydrogen production plants to efficiently produce both electricity and hydrogen as a cogeneration system, as well as how energy sector cooperation, supply chain and policy support are facilitating the progress of these projects.

Date: Thursday, 23 September 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/why-it-can-be-game-changer-in-fight-against-climate-change-9-3-2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) programme.

Date: Tuesday, 08 September 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-us-funding-for-fusion-projects-8121379

Russia’s DV Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA) has sent a cyclotron to Thailand manufactured for the Institute for Nuclear Research (NRI) in the Thai province of Nakhon Naiok. The equipment, dispatched between 15 and 17 July, for the isochronous cyclotron SS-30/15, comprised nine containers with a total cargo weight of 120 tons. Rusatom Helskea JSC and Kinetics Corporation Ltd are building a cyclotron-radiochemical complex in Thailand commissioned by NRI. The cyclotron SS-30/15 with proton energies up to 30 MeV is a key part of the complex intended for the development of nuclear medicine and scientific research. The shipment was made after the successful completion of the acceptance tests and confirmation of all required characteristics.

Date: Thursday, 23 July 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-sends-cyclotron-to-thailand-8039584

Silicon carbide is a silicon-carbon compound. Images courtesy Wikipedia and Framatome. France’s Framatome and US-based General Atomics have started cooperation on studying the application of silicon carbide in nuclear fuel designs for boiling water reactors (BWR).

Framatome said that advanced nuclear fuel designs which use silicon carbide in the fuel channel can enhance the safety and fuel performance of nuclear power plants.

Under the cooperation agreement, Framatome and General Atomics will also test materials for fuel applications to help the removal of approximately 40% of the zirconium metal in BWR fuel designs, a statement said.

Date: Saturday, 22 February 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/framatome-to-cooperate-with-general-atomics-on-silicon-carbide-bwr-fuels-2-5-2020