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Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom says it has begun transporting used nuclear fuel from its operating reactors to the newly built and commissioned Holtec-engineered Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) known as a Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS) Facility in the US. The CSFSF is expected to save approximately $200m a year compared with the previous practice of transporting used fuel to Russia for reprocessing. “Today, Ukraine is entirely self-sufficient in the strategically crucial area of storage and management of the used nuclear fuel discharged by its reactors eliminating a critical constraint in the continued generation of electricity by the nation’s nine reactors,” Energoatom noted.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoperations-begin-at-ukraines-used-fuel-dry-storage-facility-11406011

Energoatom and Holtec have announced that Ukraine's new Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) is up and running receiving used nuclear fuel from the country's nuclear power plants.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 21 December 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine-s-centralised-fuel-storage-facility-fully

Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs & Employment and the US Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on nuclear energy and nuclear waste management. “Its purpose is to intensify cooperation between administrations, companies and research institutes in Finland and the US concerning the peaceful use of nuclear power,” the Finnish Ministry said. The MOU was signed by the Ministry’s Director General, Riku Huttunen, and Dr Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary at the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Saturday, 13 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-and-us-increase-nuclear-co-operation-10842419

Workers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have completed the transfer of all the used fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) from wet to dry storage, a major milestone under a 1995 agreement with the state of Idaho. The fuel was the last to be retrieved from the water-filled storage basin at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Final-fuel-transfer-from-storage-basin-at-INL

Amended legislation includes major research and development push with SMRs, Generation IV and clean hydrogen The Flamanville-3 EPR is the only nuclear power plant under construction in FRance. Courtesy EDF. The French Senate has adopted an amended bill that aims to reduce bureaucracy around the construction of new nuclear reactors and includes a provision for the removal of a 50% cap on the share of nuclear power in the electricity mix by 2035.

The bill, which still needs to go before the National Assembly, was adopted in first reading on 24 January by 239 votes to 16.

The bill aims to speed up procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites and to the operation of existing installations.

Energy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher hopes to save up to 56 months on construction by simplifying administrative procedures for building new facilities near existing nuclear sites.

The bill says France will pursue research and innovation efforts in the direction of nuclear energy and low-carbon hydrogen, in particular by supporting pressurised European reactors, small modular reactors, Generation IV reactors and the €20bn ($21bn) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) nuclear fusion plant under construction at Cadarache in southern France.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 04 February 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/senate-passes-nuclear-bureaucracy-bill-as-country-gears-up-for-nuclear-renaissance-1-4-2023

Holtec International and Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co Ltd (Hyundai E&C) have signed an agreement to launch an accelerated programme to complete the balance of plant design of the remaining systems and structures for the SMR-160 advanced small modular reactor (SMR). The SMR-160 is a pressurised light-water reactor, generating 160MWe (525MWt) using low-enriched uranium fuel, with flexibility to produce process heat for industrial applications and hydrogen production.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsholtec-and-hyundai-agree-to-accelerate-the-smr-160-programme-10115947

The 2022 Virginia Energy Plan, announced by Governor Glenn Youngkin, calls for a nuclear innovation hub to be established in the state and for a commercial small modular reactor to be deployed in southwest Virginia within the next decade.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 06 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-central-in-Virginia-s-energy-plan

Company’s SMR-160 small modular reactor being considered for deployment at sites The Palisades decommissioning project is expected to be completed in about 19 years. Courtesy Holtec. Texas-based Holtec International has completed the acquisition of the shutdown single-unit Palisades nuclear power plant and the Big Rock Point spent fuel storage facility at a former nuclear plant , both in Michigan.

The company said in a statement that the acquisition was given the green light by US regulators with a licence transfer approval in December 2021.

Holtec said it will now proceed with decommissioning at Palisades, the first task being the planned removal of spent nuclear fuel.

The Palisades decommissioning project is expected to be completed in about 19 years, but the transfer of spent fuel from wet to dry storage will be finished by 2025.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 06 July 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-company-acquires-palisades-and-big-rock-point-for-decommissioning-7-2-2022

Facility will be ‘critical tool for developing transformational technologies’ The US is expected to make a final decision on the VTR project by late June. Courtesy DOE. The US Department of Energy has published a final environmental impact statement for the Versatile Test Reactor, a 300-MW sodium-cooled, fast-neutron reactor that would help develop advanced nuclear technologies.

The DOE has chosen the Idaho National Laboratory as the preferred site for building the VTR and is expected to make a final decision on the project by late June. An alternative site in the final environmental impact statement was Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

The VTR will be used to provide a source of fast neutrons for testing and evaluating nuclear fuels, materials, sensors, and instrumentation to support the development of advanced reactor technologies. Such facilities are available in only a few locations worldwide, and the US has not operated one in more than 20 years.

The VTR will be based on many of the design and passive safety features of GE Hitachi’s Prism small modular reactor. According to DOE researchers, the Prism design would require several changes, notably the elimination of electricity production and the accommodation for experimental locations within the core.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-doe-chooses-inl-over-oak-ridge-as-preferred-site-5-2-2022

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) is marking thirty years of cleanup work at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site to ensure the protection and safety of the underlying Snake River Plain aquifer in compliance with state and federal regulations.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 10 December 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-decades-of-cleanup-work-marked-at-US-legacy

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