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The second stage of the containment for Russia’s lead-cooled Brest-OD-300 fast reactor has been completed at the construction site on the territory of the Siberian Chemical Combine (part of Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL). The Brest-OD-300 reactor is part of the pilot demonstration power complex (ODEK - Opitno Demonstratsionovo Energo-Kompleksa), which is being developed under the Breakthrough (Proryv) project intended to demonstrate closed fuel cycle technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssecond-stage-of-containment-installed-for-brest-od-300-reactor-11705902
The operator of the Hoger Onderwijs research reactor in the Netherlands has enhanced safety since a previous review mission in September 2021, a follow-up International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has concluded.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-finds-improved-safety-at-Dutch-research-react
‘Innovative’ fuel will be key to continued operation
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/company-signs-nuclear-fuel-agreement-for-germany-s-frm-ii-research-reactor-4-5-2024
The 184-tonnes tier - the second of three - has been lifted into place for the lead-cooled fast neutron reactor under construction at the Siberian Chemical Combine site in Russia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Middle-tier-of-containment-installed-for-Brest-OD
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
US companies Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC) and Peregrine Turbine Technologies (PTT) are to collaborate with the aim of integrating USNC’s Pylon reactor with PTT’s patented supercritical CO2 (sCO2) energy conversion system and advanced heat exchanger technologies. This partnership “focuses on enhancing clean energy generation through advanced nuclear and turbine technologies”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusnc-and-peregrine-collaborate-on-advanced-energy-systems-11696106
As the world's largest producer of uranium gears up for a referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant, national policymakers and stakeholders have shared Kazakhstan's vision for a civilian nuclear programme at the World Nuclear Spotlight Kazakhstan event in Almaty.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kazakhstan-shines-spotlight-on-nuclear-powered-fut
Russian nuclear regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a licence which will allow the production of mock-ups of fuel assemblies with depleted uranium for the BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Licence-issued-to-test-BREST-OD-300-nuclear-fuel-m
South Africa’s Koya Capital has signed a partnership agreement with Stratek Global to assist in securing finance for construction of a high temperature modular reactor. The ZAR9bn ($480m) HTMR-100 is based on South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssupport-grows-for-south-africas-htmr-100-smr-11676146
Days after announcing the start of accelerated irradiation testing and qualification of its patented ANEEL thorium and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel at Idaho National Laboratory, Clean Core Thorium Energy announced it has completed the first phase of the Canadian nuclear regulator's pre-licensing review process.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 11 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Licensing-and-testing-progress-for-innovative-thor