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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.

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

South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) plans to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for use in shipping in cooperation with the UK's Core Power and the USA's Southern Company and TerraPower.

Date: Thursday, 08 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Korean-shipbuilder-joins-maritime-SMR-project

Unit 6 of the Bruce nuclear power plant in Ontario has resumed operation following its Major Component Replacement (MCR) project, Bruce Power announced. The Candu reactor, which was taken offline for the work in January 2020, is scheduled to resume commercial operation later this year.

Date: Thursday, 10 August 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bruce-6-restarted-following-refurbishment

If existing inventories of used nuclear fuel were recycled and repurposed as fuel for advanced fast reactors, it could generate zero-carbon electricity for Europe for up to 1000 years, according to international environmental campaign group RePlanet.

Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Extract-energy-from-used-nuclear-fuel,-says-enviro

The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) has begun commissioning the Philippine Research Reactor-1 Subcritical Assembly for Training, Education and Research (PRR-1 SATER), which will become the country's sole nuclear reactor training facility.

Date: Friday, 26 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Commissioning-of-Philippine-research-reactor-under

US ‘should double’ domestic nuclear production by 2050 February 2022 file photo of construction at the Vogtle nuclear power station in Georgia. Courtesy Georgia Power. The US should aim to double domestic nuclear energy production by 2050 to help achieve 100% clean energy with the widespread deployment of advanced reactors a crucial part of policy, the Nuclear Innovation Alliance think-tank says.

In a report on the future of nuclear fission, the US-based NIA says advanced nuclear energy has the potential to greatly reduce carbon emissions by mid-century and help achieve 100% clean energy in the US. But this promise can only be achieved with “the timely, efficient and widespread deployment of advanced reactors”.

The report warns that the US will need to rebuild the supply chain, complete nuclear projects on time and on budget, create incentives for deployment and enact policies that enable private investment.

The report cites other conditions for success that it says are critical to the successful deployment of advanced reactors. They include modernising advanced nuclear energy regulation, making progress on spent nuclear fuel, getting siting right and prioritising environmental and energy justice. This would ensure, for example, that communities benefit from the repurposing of retiring fossil fuel infrastructure with advanced reactors.

Date: Thursday, 21 April 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/think-tank-calls-for-timely-efficient-and-widespread-deployment-of-advanced-reactors-4-3-2022

Doubling domestic nuclear energy production by 2050 is an "ambitious but achievable" national goal that would help the USA achieve 100% clean energy, US think-tank the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) said. The organisation is calling for the US Department of Energy (DOE) to launch an Advanced Nuclear Energy Earthshot as part of its Energy Earthshots initiative to help achieve this.

Date: Friday, 15 April 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-organisation-calls-for-doubling-of-nuclear

Nuclear energy could help Singapore's power sector achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a new report from the island city-state's Energy Market Authority (EMA). It says nuclear energy could supply around 10% of Singapore's energy needs.

Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-could-help-Singapore-meet-climate-goals,-s

Net-zero needs nuclear, UK minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change Greg Hands told the country's industry at the Nuclear Industry Association's Nuclear2021 conference in London last week in a strong message of support. The following is the text of his speech.

Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-UK-is-on-a-mission-for-fission

US Southern Company said on 18 November that it had established a cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment. The small reactor experiment, selected for funding under DOE’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Programme (ARDP), will advance US TerraPower’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR).

Date: Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssouthern-company-doe-to-lead-demonstration-of-molten-salt-reactor-9267269