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UK-based nuclear start-up newcleo has signed a partnership agreement with the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) on development of newcleo's lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-teams-up-with-cea-on-reactor-development-11676148
A new publication in the IAEA’s Technical Report Series, Status of Molten Salt Reactor Technology, outlines the current status of molten salt reactor (MSR) technology around the world. It reviews the history of MSRs and takes a look at the current research and development activities taking place. The advantages of this technology, including a smaller high level waste footprint and passive safety features, as well as some of the technical challenges, such as developing components capable of operating in very high temperature environments, are detailed.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-iaea-publication-discusses-molten-salt-reactor-technology-11671135
Netherlands-based start-up, Thorizon, and Belgium-based engineering and consulting company Tractebel (part of France’s Engie) have signed a strategic three-year partnership to advance Thorizon’ molten salt reactor design. Tractebel will provide engineering services for the Thorizon One molten salt reactor, including support on the conceptual design, computational modelling, cost estimates and design reviews.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstractebel-partners-with-thorizon-on-molten-salt-reactor-11554105
China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) has issued a licence to the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for operation of its Thorium Molten Salt Reactor - Liquid Fuel 1 (TMSR-LF1) at the Hongshagang Industrial Cluster, Wuwei City, in Gansu Province.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-experimental-molten-salt-reactor-receives-licence-10952226
Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) has completed Phase 2 of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) vendor design review (VDR). CNSC found no fundamental barriers to licensing the small modular reactor design. The VDR is not a required part of the licensing process and is an optional service provided by the CNSC. It offers an assessment of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrestrial-energy-molten-salt-reactor-passes-canadian-vendor-design-review-10775696
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has completed Phase 2 of the vendor design review (VDR) of Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). The regulator said that no fundamental barriers to licensing the small modular reactor design were identified during the review.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Terrestrial-SMR-completes-Canadian-pre-licensing-r
Advanced nuclear plant could power industries such as steel and mining
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/terrestrial-energy-reactor-completes-phase-2-vendor-design-review-4-2-2023
The bill, which still needs to go before the National Assembly, was adopted in first reading on 24 January by 239 votes to 16.
The bill aims to speed up procedures related to the construction of new nuclear facilities near existing nuclear sites and to the operation of existing installations.
Energy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher hopes to save up to 56 months on construction by simplifying administrative procedures for building new facilities near existing nuclear sites.
The bill says France will pursue research and innovation efforts in the direction of nuclear energy and low-carbon hydrogen, in particular by supporting pressurised European reactors, small modular reactors, Generation IV reactors and the €20bn ($21bn) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) nuclear fusion plant under construction at Cadarache in southern France.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 04 February 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/senate-passes-nuclear-bureaucracy-bill-as-country-gears-up-for-nuclear-renaissance-1-4-2023
A new report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), “Beyond Electricity: The Economics of Nuclear Cogeneration”, published on 22 July says: “Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to contribute further to the decarbonisation of the world’s energy sector if it is also used to provide heat for industrial applications, which today mainly run on fossil fuels.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnea-report-looks-at-nuclear-cogeneration-9883922
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and X-energy have signed a framework agreement to seek opportunities for the decarbonisation of high-temperature industrial applications through the deployment of Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Canada.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/OPG,-X-energy-to-examine-industrial-applications-f