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The launch of Atomic Canyon along with Neutron, a custom-built AI search platform for the nuclear energy sector, has been announced by CEO and Founder Trey Lauderdale. With a background in developing communications and software systems for the health sector, he explained: "I got my start in healthcare, and there are definite parallels with nuclear energy, which – for good reason – is far more regulated than any other industry in the US.”

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsatomic-canyon-unveils-ai-powered-search-platform-for-nuclear-sector-11604169

Fusion technology company SHINE Technologies has selected Deep Isolation's technology as its preferred solution for storage and disposal of the high-level waste that will remain as a residue after deployment of SHINE's technology for recycling used nuclear fuel.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/SHINE-chooses-Deep-Isolation-waste-disposal-techno

Pairing a used fuel recycling facility with deep borehole disposal technology could reduce the total volume of waste requiring disposal in a deep geologic repository by greater than 90%, a study by Deep Isolation and SHINE Technologies has found.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Collaboration-points-way-to-potential-reductions-i

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a three-year contract to US-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to develop a scalable, cost-competitive path to manufacture silicon carbide (SiC) and SiC composite foam materials for advanced fusion power plants.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Saturday, 03 February 2024; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-atomics-to-develop-silicon-carbide-materials-for-fusion-power-plants-11483120

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted to include 17 technologies in the EU’s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), including nuclear energy. The MEPs led by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), the liberal Renew group, and the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) voted 376 in favour, 139 against with 116 abstentions. EU member states will now discuss the issue in the Council of Ministers before it is finalised in December. They are expected to reduce the list.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Friday, 24 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newseu-parliament-includes-nuclear-in-net-zero-industry-act-11322086

Opening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 29th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023) in London, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi began by wishing a happy 40th anniversary to the Joint European Torus (JET) which operates at Culham near Oxford. Jet was “the first tritium experiment in Europe, breaker of scientific records, producer of generations of accomplished scientists and engineers, and a true magnet for international collaboration,” he said.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Wednesday, 18 October 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaeas-29th-fusion-energy-conference-attracts-2000-participants-11224380

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, during the opening day of the 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) in London, launched the World Fusion Outlook (WFO), a new regular publication providing authoritative information and updates on fusion energy. It is expected to become a global reference for energy R&D, technology development and prospective deployment of fusion.