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Kazakhstan’s Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP) and Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of research for the development of the nuclear industry. The memorandum provides for the creation of a working group of scientists from both sides to consider initiatives and implement specific projects.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 03 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakhstans-nuclear-industry-and-research-facilities-to-strengthen-co-operation-11483567
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom has delivered the first batch of AFA 3G TM fuel assemblies to China by rail from the Ulba-TVS LLP plant. Trains comprising 34 shipping containers with the fuel assemblies, accompanied by a special security service, were delivered to NPPs in China. The deliver was equivalent to one reactor reload (slightly more than 30 tonnes of low-enriched uranium). It was formally accepted by China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazatomprom-delivers-first-batch-of-fuel-assemblies-to-china-10701431
Kazakhstan’s national atomic company, Kazatomprom, has announced that the first batch of AFA 3G TM fuel assemblies has been delivered to China from its Ulba-FA LLP plant. Kazatomprom said that railway platforms with 34 shipping containers containing fuel assemblies equivalent to one reload (a little over 30 tons of low-enriched uranium), escorted by special-purpose security, had been delivered to an NPP in China and accepted by the customer, China General Nuclear Power Corporation CGNPC-URC, a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakhstan-delivers-first-fuel-assemblies-to-china-10422158
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has completed acceptance testing of Russian-made niobium-tin superconductors manufactured under the framework of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) CERN Conductor Development Programme, Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL said on 16 June. The design of the superconducting strands and the technology for their manufacture were developed at the AA Bochvar Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM) in Moscow, while the 50km long qualification batch of strands was manufactured at the Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (CMP) in Glazov, Udmurt Republic (both part of TVEL). The work was completed as part of the agreement between TVEL and CERN, and was based on successful test results.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstvel-supplies-superconductors-to-cern-8827652
US-based QuesTek Innovations announced on 17 May that it had been awarded $1.1 million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The funding will be used to design, develop and qualify a novel materials solution and process for next generation molten salt reactors. This new Phase II project will focus on efficient and cost-effective cold spray processing of bimetallic structures, with refractory-based alloys (e.g., molybdenum) as a surface layer to provide corrosion resistance and high temperature stability on the surface of ASME-certified structural materials.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-funding-supports-materials-research-for-molten-salt-environments-8766511
Specialists at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute, working on the development of a fusion-fission hybrid power plant, have completed its preliminary design.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsthe-kurchatov-institute-completes-hybrid-power-plant-design-8416277
An extensive EU-funded research project has been launched to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to low doses of radon and other naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) on humans and the environment. The EUR22 million (USD26 million), five-year RadoNorm project involves 56 partners from 22 European countries.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EU-research-project-focuses-on-radon-and-NORM
Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a GE-led joint venture with Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corporation, announced on 11 September that its newest boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel innovation, NSF channels, has been approved for use by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 14 September 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-approves-gnf-fuel-innovation-4669592
Japanese electrical utility TEPCO has continued to act to reduce the spread of radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Reactor-by-reactor, system-by-system summary from JAIF on 7 April. Yellow indicates abnormal/unstable; red means damaged/nonfunctional/unsafe
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 April 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstepco-continues-work-to-contain-radioactivity