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US-based Oklo has completed the second phase of the Thermal Hydraulic Experimental Test Article (THETA) testing campaign in collaboration with the US Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). THETA is a sodium fixture with instrumentation installed at ANL’s Mechanisms Engineer Test Loop (METL) facility.

Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoklo-and-anl-complete-second-theta-testing-campaign-11612619

The company responsible for implementing the UAE's civil nuclear power programme has signed separate agreements with several small modular reactor (SMR) developers on the sidelines of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ENEC-signs-multiple-SMR-MoUs

US-based TerraPower has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the UAE’s Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) on the sidelines of COP28 to explore opportunities for the commercialisation and global deployment of Terrapower’s Natrium technology. “Bringing advanced nuclear technologies to market is critical to meeting global decarbonisation targets,” said TerraPower President & CEO Chris Levesque. “TerraPower and ENEC are leading the way in deploying nuclear plants, and this agreement allows us to share our expertise and design experience, and explore the opportunity for deployment of Natrium reactors around the world including additional locations in the United States.”

Date: Thursday, 07 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrapower-signs-mous-with-enec-and-uranium-energy-corp-11351984

US power utility Southern Company, TerraPower and Core Power have started pumped-salt operations in the Integrated Effects Test (IET), as a step towards development of Generation-IV molten salt reactor technology, namely TerraPower’s first-of-a-kind Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR).

Date: Saturday, 07 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrapower-begins-testing-molten-salt-technology-11199243

Southern Company, TerraPower and Core Power have started pumped-salt operations in the Integrated Effects Test (IET) facility at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. The IET will be used in the development of the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor.

Date: Thursday, 05 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Operations-begin-at-US-chloride-salt-test-system

The US and Japan are undertaking a joint project to perform transient tests on fast reactor fuels. The experiments are part of a four-year cost-shared facility sharing initiative between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) under the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group. The experiments will use a device developed by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) that can test advanced reactor fuel experiments in its Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility.

Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-and-japan-to-test-fast-reactor-fuels-10525032

A research programme into the safety of fast reactor fuel that has been suspended since the 1990s will resume with tests due to begin at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) next month.

Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US,-Japan-work-together-on-fast-reactor-fuel-safet

Southern Company and TerraPower have completed construction and installation of a new test facility at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. The Integrated Effects Test will be used in the development of the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR).

Date: Thursday, 20 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/World-s-largest-chloride-salt-system-in-place

The State of Wyoming has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Batelle Energy Alliance, the operating contractor of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to collaborate in the research, development, demonstration and deployment of advanced energy technologies with a special focus on advanced nuclear.

Date: Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Wyoming,-INL-sign-MoU-on-advanced-nuclear-developm

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.

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