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In a new report, “What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste”, environmental group RePlanet advocates recycling used nuclear fuel as fuel for advanced fast reactors. While Europe's nuclear power reactors "have a long history of safe use, and have provided prodigious quantities of clean electricity for decades", they use less than 1% of the energy potential in the natural uranium used to make their fuel, the report notes. Moreover, irradiated fuel assemblies removed from reactors are considered “nuclear waste”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 07 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenvironmental-group-urges-use-of-fast-reactors-10738853
Researchers have found that small amounts of plutonium were included inside cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) emitted during the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011, the University of Helsinki reports.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 18 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinternational-study-finds-plutonium-particles-were-released-during-fukushima-accident-8029597
A group of more than 100 scientists and environmentalists have written to the European Commission calling for a "timely and just assessment" of nuclear energy in the EU Taxonomy. The letter was sent by Satu Helynen, acting president of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP), and addressed to EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson and to two European Commission vice-presidents, Valdis Dombrovskis and Frans Timmermans.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 30 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NGOs-demand-place-for-nuclear-in-EU-Taxonomy
A shipment of samples of plutonium oxide is en route from the UK to a laboratory at Orano's Melox plant in southern France. The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the production of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-plutonium-samples-shipped-to-France
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's (ANSTO) medical isotope production facility announced in January that it had become the second in the world to install a high-resolution monitoring system to track emissions from its medical radioisotopes production facility under an initiative led by the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
ANSTO and PNNL said the detector system was installed in October at the medical isotope production facility at Lucas Heights. The first such system had been installed in a monitor stack at the Institute for Radioelements (IRE) at Fleurus in Belgium. Both IRE and ANSTO produce molybdenum-99 by irradiating uranium in a reactor. The process releases gaseous fission products including xenon isotopes. While representing no danger to the public, the isotopes resemble those produced by a nuclear explosion.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansto-installs-emissions-monitoring-equipment-6970285
“From the point of view of safety and radiation protection, the impact on installations and transports of the French fuel cycle of the current fuel management of reactors and envisaged until 2030, does not show any major technical difficulty for this period,” L'Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) said in a report of 24 October.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-needs-mox-to-avoid-spent-fuel-storage-crisis-6820865
23 Oct (NucNet): France needs to make available new storage capacity or enable the use of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in more reactors as part of an effort to make sure existing storage capacity is not used up in the coming 10 years, the regulator ASN has said.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/french-regulator-recommends-more-mox-use-after-review-of-fuel-management
A large increase in the use of nuclear power would help keep global warming to below 1.5 degrees, according to a United Nations report published today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report - Global Warming of 1.5 degrees - was commissioned by governments at the Paris climate talks in 2015 and will inform the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland this December.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 08 October 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UN-report-shows-increased-need-for-nuclear
Belgium’s Council of Ministers on 7 September announced funding of €558 million ($646 million) for the Myrrha research infrastructure that is being developed at SCK•CEN’s premises in Mol.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 13 September 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelgium-allocates-funds-for-myrrha-research-facility-6748928
A new fission-fusion hybrid reactor will be assembled at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute by the end of 2018, Peter Khvostenko, scientific adviser of the Kurchatov complex on thermonuclear energy and plasma technologies, announced on 14 May. The physical start-up of the facility is scheduled for 2020.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-develops-a-fission-fusion-hybrid-reactor-6168535