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Swedish company Blykalla, formerly called Leadcold, has announced the closure of its latest funding round to support its lead-cooled SMRs, raising a total of SEK80m ($7.3m). The round was led by Norrsken Launcher together with Nucleation Capital, with participation from Earth Venture Capital, Farvatn, and several private investors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsblykalla-closes-latest-funding-round-to-support-its-lead-cooled-smrs-11696302
France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to establish the industrialisation process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the university's FRM II research reactor. Framatome noted this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever realised in Europe for research reactor operations.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Production-to-begin-of-innovative-fuel-for-German
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded $27.3m for research & development to accelerate the Hanford Site’s tank waste clean-up mission. The funds are for 13 projects led by six national laboratories. Project duration is from two to three years. First-year funding ranges from $1.3m million to $3m per project. The laboratories and their projects are:
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-labs-awarded-funding-to-speed-up-hanford-tank-waste-clean-up-11594327
The Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant (NCCP or NZKhK – Novosibirskii Zavod KhimConsentratov), part of Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL, has signed a contract with the Egypt Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA) for the supply of low-enriched nuclear fuel components for the ETRR-2 research reactor. The products include uranium components, as well as aluminium alloy products and aluminium powder. Delivery will be completed in 2024.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-to-supply-of-fuel-components-for-the-egypts-etrr-2-research-reactor-11511973
The China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) has received a certificate for the design of a transport and packaging container (TPC) for used nuclear fuel from large fast reactors. The container has a multilayer design. One layers is a buffer made of porous aluminium foam alloy. The design also contains layers of lead and uses boron-containing resins. The development of the container project took two years. A full-scale 100-tonne container prototype has been tested in the presence of specialists from the Chinese Institute of Radiation Protection. CIAE has also produced China’s first large tonnage vacuum lead casting bench and a special boron-containing silicone resin pouring bench to meet the lead and boron-containing resin casting needs of large used fuel transport containers.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-develops-container-for-fast-reactor-used-fuel-11383468
Rosatom has completed testing equipment for the production of mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel (SNUP) intended for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor under construction at the Siberian Chemical Plant (SCC, part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) in Seversk. The equipment is installed in the Fabrication/Refabrication Module (MFR) at the Experimental Demonstration Energy Complex (ODEK) being developed under at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC, part of Rosatom fuel company TVEL) in Seversk Tomsk Region).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-completes-equipment-tests-for-brest-fuel-production-facility-11369835
China has developed a 100-tonne transport container for used fuel from large fast reactors, the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) announced. Following test verification of a full-scale prototype container, the design has obtained design licence approval.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-develops-fast-reactor-used-fuel-container
Rosatom and the Government of Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug signed an agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to co-operate in deployment of a low-power NPP (ASMM) using a Shelf-M reactor plant. The agreement, signed by Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev and Chukotka Acting Governor Vladislav Kuznetsov, outlines the procedure for organising interaction for the construction of a ASMM to supply power the Sovinoye gold deposit and Chukotka settlements.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-to-build-shelf-m-microreactor-by-2030-10955643
The Special Design & Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics, was commissioned by Rosatom, to design and manufacture an amphibious robot to work in emergency zones at nuclear facilities. It can carry out visual reconnaissance on land and under water, capture and move objects of various shapes weighing up to 25 kg.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 15 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-commissions-amphibious-robot-to-work-at-nuclear-facilities-10941493
The VR-2 research reactor, construction of which began last year, has entered operation at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE) at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. The reactor will mainly be used for teaching nuclear engineering students.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-Czech-research-reactor-commissioned