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Russia’s BN-800 fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant will completely switch to mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (mox) fuel in the summer 2022, plant director Ivan Sidorov told a press conference on 27 January.  

Date: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbn-800-on-track-to-switch-to-mox-fuel-this-summer-9449661

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

The challenges the nuclear industry faces are largely external and must be overcome if it is to help tackle the existential threat of climate change, panellists in the Nuclear Energy and its Future session of the Reuters Next conference on 11 January said. These challenges include: the notion nuclear is an out-dated technology; the cost of finance; market design; political changes; perceived competition with renewable energy; and the public's misconceptions about radioactive waste.

Date: Friday, 15 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-real-challenges-to-nuclear-are-external,-says

TVEL, the nuclear fuel subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom,  is working on a 'dual-component' approach to closing the nuclear fuel cycle, as well as accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) and innovations in fuel for VVER units.

Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVEL-outlines-innovation-in-nuclear-fuel

Russia’s National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NITU MISIS), announced on 5 March that its materials science specialists had developed a unique three-layer steel-vanadium-steel material that can withstand temperatures of up to 700 degrees Celsius for prolonged periods, as well as high radiation levels, mechanical stress and aggressive chemicals.

Date: Thursday, 14 March 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-announced-nuclear-fuel-advances-7039684

28 Mar (NucNet): Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved a 30-year plan to decommission the prototype Monju fast breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture, southwest Japan, reports in local media said.

Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Original article: nucnet.org/news/japan-regulator-approves-monju-decommissioning-plan-say-reports

US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC Nuclear) on 12 March signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the development and licensing of an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) based on Generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactor technology.

Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-companies-collaborate-on-small-fast-reactor-technology-5763171