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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project says that the impact of COVID-19 means that its current schedule, of first plasma in 2025 and the start of deuterium-tritium operation in 2035, will need to be delayed, with the new timetable to be finalised and announced after the appointment of a new director general.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-fusion-project-preparing-to-outline-revised-t
The completion of remediation works at the former uranium legacy sites in Shekaftar and Min-Kush, in the Kyrgyz Republic, “brings a major environmental benefit for Central Asia’s most populous region and secures the sustainability of the sites for years to come,” the European Bank forReconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on 28 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 April 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuranium-legacy-sites-remediated-in-kyrgyz-republic-9591829
The eighth European Union-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Senior Officials Meeting discussed opportunities to deepen cooperation in a range of areas, including collaboration on the development and deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ukraine,-climate,-SMRs-EU-and-IAEA-nuclear-talks
The nuclear medicine sector is a small part of the wider nuclear industry, but it provides some of the most pioneering technologies in healthcare - and is close to making personalised medicine a reality. Antonis Kalemis, president of Nuclear Medicine Europe and business manager for molecular imaging at Siemens Healthineers, describes how nuclear medicine also tackles the most trenchant condition in modern healthcare: cancer.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Nuclear-medicine-is-crucial-for-fighting
Bulgaria’s nuclear society, Bulatom, on 14 June published its position on the main projects in the electricity industry of Bulgaria, in particular the Belene NPP project. In an earlier letter, addressed to “colleagues”, Bulatom noted: “Currently, there is an intensive debate in the society about the future of nuclear energy in our country, including the two promising projects that are in the process of structuring and selecting options for implementation: the project for construction of nuclear power on the approved new site near Kozloduy; and the project for construction of nuclear power at the Belene site.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulatom-seeks-level-playing-field-for-belene-project-8837361
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to increase by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 - the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This increase, reversing most of last year's decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being driven by a strong rebound in demand for coal in electricity generation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Coal-demand-to-boost-CO2-emissions-in-2021-says-IE
The Bulgarian government has approved a report by the Minister of Energy on the actions taken and the results of the study on the possibilities for construction of a new nuclear unit at site No 2 of the Kozloduy NPP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulgaria-considers-using-belene-reactors-to-expand-kozloduy-plant-8472288