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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
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
At the construction site of Russia’s Kursk II nuclear power plant, the truss console has been installed under the reactor shaft of unit 2. This component, weighing 145 tons and with a diameter of more than 9 metres, is the second part of the core melt trap, Kursk NPP said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-continues-at-russia-kursk-ii-7963462
UK Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) announced it has completed manufacturing, research and consultancy work to allow restart of Beznau 1 in Switzerland.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssheffield-forgemasters-completes-work-on-beznau-npp-6168605
Unit 1 at Switzerland’s Beznau nuclear plant, the world’s oldest power reactor, has been permitted to restart after a three-year shutdown for repairs, the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (Ensi) said on 6 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 12 March 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswitzerlands-beznau-1-gears-up-for-restart-6079581
Swiss utility Axpo has received regulatory approval to bring unit 1 of the Beznau nuclear power plant (KKB) back into service this month after evidence it submitted last December proved aluminium oxide inclusions in the reactor pressure vessel do not affect the unit's safety.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 06 March 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Swiss-regulator-approves-Beznau-1-restart
Swiss utility Axpo said last week that the restart of unit 1 of its Beznau nuclear power plant has been deferred to late February 2018.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 03 October 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdelays-for-restart-of-beznau-1-5938692
The production of a replica part of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) used at unit 1 of Switzerland's Beznau NPP has shown that aluminium oxide inclusions in the vessel were formed during its manufacture, power company Axpo said. The safety of the RPV has been undergoing investigation since the unit was taken offline in May 2015 for a routine maintenance outage. The RPV inspections, made using state-of-the-art ultrasonic equipment, "registered findings at some points in the base material of unit 1's RPV indicating minimal irregularities in the fabrication process".
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-tests-from-switzerlands-beznau-1-rpv-5013315