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The 184-tonnes tier - the second of three - has been lifted into place for the lead-cooled fast neutron reactor under construction at the Siberian Chemical Combine site in Russia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Middle-tier-of-containment-installed-for-Brest-OD
Russia’s Mining & chemical Combine (MCC - part of Rosatom) in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk) has completed all R&D on a project for a molten salt research reactor (IZhSR - Issledovatelskovo Zhidko Solevovo Reaktora) MCC Director Dmitry Kolupaev told Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev Rosatom Alexei Likhachev during his visit to the enterprise that the key stages had been completed. A preliminary design has been developed that describes the fundamental decisions required for the physical launch of the IZhSR. This was achieved in cooperation with many other Russian organisations.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 03 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-completes-rd-on-molten-salt-research-reactor-project-11486550
A steel reactor base plate and the lower tier of the containment has been installed in what is being called a landmark moment for construction of the BREST-OD-300 generation IV fast neutron reactor in Russia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-lead-cooled-fast-neutron-reactor-s-installat
The Government of Rwanda, represented by the Rwanda Atomic Energy Board (RAEB), has signed an agreement with Canadian-German nuclear technology start-up Dual Fluid Energy to collaborate on the development in Rwanda of a demonstration Dual Fluid reactor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 16 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrwanda-signs-deal-to-co-operate-on-novel-reactor-11150691
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Savannah River Site (SRS) says the H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium (HEU) stored in the Site’s H Area in order to down-blend it into high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU). “The projected demand for HALEU far exceeds the current supply,” said HALEU Programme Manager Jeff Hasty for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the site’s managing and operating contractor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-production-planned-for-savannah-river-site-as-clean-up-continues-10731144
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted an application from X-Energy Reactor Company subsidiary, TRISO-X, for a fuel fabrication facility which will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Anticipating the decision, TRISO-X, in October, broke ground and began construction of the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) is expected to create more than 400 jobs and attract investment of approximately $300 million. TF3 is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-accepts-triso-xs-application-for-fuel-fabrication-facility-10451681
The first full assemblies of a new kind of nuclear fuel have been loaded into Russia's Balakovo 1 for a five-year trial. Rosatom's REMIX fuel promises to close the fuel cycle using today's light-water reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 23 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-batch-of-REMIX-fuel-begins-trial
State nuclear fuel company Tvel said each Remix assembly contains only fuel rods with a mixture of uranium and plutonium recovered from spent nuclear fuel, with 312 fuel rods in each assembly.
Since 2016, three fuel assemblies, each containing six experimental Remix fuel rods, have been undergoing pilot operation at Unit 3 at Balakovo, about 900km southeast of Moscow. The third 18-month cycle of their irradiation began in 2020 and was completed earlier this year.
Remix fuel is made from uranium and plutonium recovered from used fuel. It is topped up with low-enriched uranium to give a fuel that performs within the same parameters as fuel made only from fresh low-enriched uranium. Remix can be used in existing reactors without changes to their design or additional safety measures.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/six-remix-fuel-assemblies-loaded-at-balakovo-1-vver-12-2-2021
Russia is ready to test a batch of fuel assemblies made from recycled uranium and plutonium. The REMIX fuel concept could be used with any reactor and promises a step-change in resource efficiency and waste reduction, according to Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/REMIX-fuel-ready-for-final-test
Recycled REMIX nuclear fuel has passed a five-year operational test in Russia and is ready for pilot operation, Rosatom fuel subsidiary TVEL has said. REMIX is designed to reduce uranium consumption and close the fuel cycle using mainstream light-water reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 18 September 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Successful-test-of-recycled-fuel