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Beijing-based Betavolt New Energy Technology has developed a 3V nuclear battery that uses radioactive nickel-63 as the energy source and a diamond semiconductor as the energy converter. Betavolt says atomic are a direct current power source, and can produce pulse power with a higher life by adding supercapacitors as energy storage devices.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-betavolt-develops-50-year-nuclear-battery-11439320
Nuclear fuel for the Akkuyu NPP under construction in Turkey are on track for May 2023 delivery, according to Anastasia Zoteeva, general director of the project company, Akkuyu Nukleer. She confirmed that works for the construction of unit 1 is on schedule and works are simultaneously ongoing for the completion of the other three reactors. Fresh fuel will be delivered for the first unit in May 2023.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 26 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-and-electronics-being-prepared-for-akkuyu-npp-10384180
The third and largest consignment of Russian equipment for the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (Iter) was deliovered to the seaport of St Petersburg on 7 September for further transportation to the site of the reactor in Cadarache (France) via Hamburg, Germany. The equipment, weighing 85 tonnes, includes: aluminium water-cooled direct-current buses for the poloidal field, the central solenoid and correcting winding power systems; thermal expansion joints and other parts of the DC bus systems that connect the superconducting windings of the tokamak electromagnetic system with their power supply sources; as well as sections of operational resistors for plasma discharge initiation systems.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 14 September 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-russian-equipment-for-iter-5925977
The National Grid has chosen a corridor running overland around the coast of Cumbria and under Morecambe Bay for connecting NuGen's proposed 3.4GW nuclear plant at Moorside and other sources of electricity to the grid.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-on-connection-plans-for-moorside-4608343