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The US Administration has issued an Executive Order on Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration, which it says will further revitalise the US nuclear energy sector and reinvigorate its space exploration programme. This includes directives to demonstrate the use of microreactors on military bases and also to ensure a viable US-origin supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU).

Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-order-promotes-SMRs-for-space-exploration-and-d

It is now 75 years since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and colleagues in Berlin. It is also 60 years after US president Dwight Eisenhower's UN address later known as the 'Atoms for Peace' speech, which essentially started the international nuclear supply industry.

Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-power-and-the-civil-military-link-4171667

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