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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
The first three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide fuel containing transuranic elements americium-241 and neptunium-237 have been produced by Rosatom's Mining and Chemical Combine.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mixed-oxide-fuel-with-minor-actinides-produced-for
Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, has manufactured the first three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, which also contain other transuranic elements including americium-241 and neptunium-237. The assemblies, which have completed acceptance tests, will be loaded into the BN-800 fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP in 2024. The fuel will undergo pilot operation (lead-test assemblies programme) during three micro-campaigns of approximately one and a half years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-manufactures-first-bn-800-mox-fuel-assemblies-with-minor-actinides-11359521
Public hearings have been held in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region on justification of a licence to use nuclear materials during research to be undertaken by the BN-800 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP. The materials made available for discussion included a preliminary environmental impact assessment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-bn-800-fast-reactor-prepares-to-burn-minor-actinides-11347674
France’s Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has launched two start-ups - Hexana and Stellaria. They will rely on CEA’s technologies and patents to develop fourth generation advanced modular reactors (AMRs).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscea-launches-two-nuclear-start-ups-10673324
Oklo has won $17m (€15.6m) in Department of Energy awards for technology development in support of commercialising production of advanced reactor fuel from used nuclear fuel.
The licensing project plan outlines the company’s plans for “pre-application engagement activities” that support the future licensing of a first-of-a-kind fuel recycling facility.
The company said: “Oklo will use an electrorefining-based technology to recycle used nuclear fuel. A critical way this process differs from the legacy reprocessing methods is that electrorefining keeps the major and minor actinide elements combined. For this reason, many refer to the electrorefining process as inherently ‘proliferation-resistant.”
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 28 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/oklo-submits-plans-for-licensing-of-nuclear-fuel-recycling-plant-1-5-2023
The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has received permission from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental liquid-salt thorium reactor. The project began in 2011, when CAS launched an R&D programme for liquid-salt thorium reactors. It is variously referred to as a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR), a thorium-breeding molten-salt reactor (TMSR), or fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor (FHR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 12 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-approves-launch-of-liquid-salt-thorium-reactor-9920912
The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) - part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered molten-salt reactor, construction of which started in Wuwei city, Gansu province, in September 2018.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-salt-reactor-cleared-for-start-up
A new nuclear fuel cycle providing acceptable and reliable back-end solutions will be essential to sustain dynamic growth in global nuclear energy, Liudmila Zalimskaya, general director of JSC Tenex, told the World Nuclear Association's Symposium in London last week. Proposed approaches centre on reprocessing and recycling of used fuel, allowing uranium and plutonium resources to be used to their fullest extent while reducing the amounts of waste for disposal. Tenex is the nuclear fuel cycle product supplier subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-proposes-new-closed-fuel-cycle
Russia has begun tests of its new Remix (Regenerated Mixture) nuclear fuel at the MIR research reactor at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) in Dimitrovgrad. Development of REMIX fuel is part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom's strategy to enable better use of recycled uranium and plutonium on an industrial scale in pressurised water reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-begins-testing-remix-fuel-5669460