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The company says its application to build the Natrium reactor demonstration project is the first construction permit application for a commercial advanced reactor to be submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Non-nuclear construction will begin this summer.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 03 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-submits-application-to-build-Natrium-re
UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo has announced a strategic and industrial partnership with France's NAAREA designed "to support all players in their industrial, technological, scientific and regulatory development" of Generation IV fast neutron reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-and-naarea-partner-to-support-fast-reactor-development-11445892
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated to the nation the Demonstration Fast Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (DFRP) at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) at Kalpakkam in Chengalpattu district. The DFPR was built at a cost of about INR4bn ($48m) and is the world's only industrial-scale plant capable of handling both carbide and oxide used fuels from fast reactors, according to an official statement.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindian-pm-dedicates-demonstration-fuel-reprocessing-plant-to-nation-11425550
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.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrapower-signs-mous-with-enec-and-uranium-energy-corp-11351984
A project led by BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC to assess the viability of deploying microreactors to supplement Wyoming's existing power generation resources is set to be one of the first recipients of matched funding under a state-appropriated programme. But TerraPower has put its plans to apply for a construction permit for a Natrium reactor in the state back by five months.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 15 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Wyoming-to-consider-microreactors-as-SMR-plans-con
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has recently published a 73-page study, which tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment. NEA says the SMR designs are at various stages of development, from fundamental research on new concepts to commercial deployment and operation of mature designs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-development-tracked-by-nea-and-iaea-studies-10691068
France’s Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has launched two start-ups - Hexana and Stellaria. They will rely on CEA’s technologies and patents to develop fourth generation advanced modular reactors (AMRs).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscea-launches-two-nuclear-start-ups-10673324
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-and-japan-to-test-fast-reactor-fuels-10525032
Experimental fuel assemblies for the BN-600 reactor incorporating BN-1200 fuel rods have been manufactured at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk with the intention they will be loaded into the BN-600 fast neutron reactor at Beloyarsk, Russia, in 2023, Rosatom has said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uranium-plutonium-nitride-fuel-tested-for-BN-1200
All the fuel assemblies at the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR), which is being decommissioned, have now been transferred to a water-filled storage facility, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 22 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defuelling-completed-at-Japan-s-Monju-reactor