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Netherlands Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Eric Wiebes has said that more nuclear power may join solar and wind in the Dutch energy mix after 2030, in particular small modular reactors (SMR) with a capacity of up to 400MW.

Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnetherlands-pushes-for-more-nuclear-8153490

The Netherlands-based Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has begun a new study – part of its molten salt technology programme – that aims to simulate what happens when the molten salt cools down to below 150C.

Results of the study will contribute to the safety analysis of molten salt reactors. NRG said last year that the study will include the monitoring of pressure, dose and temperature and that five salts will be investigated, The salt samples will be provided by Czech research centre Řež.

A new experimental facility, called Saga, is designed to be used for testing a range of configurations (or: arrangements) for molten salt reactors.

Unlike most experiments in NRG’s High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands, irradiation will take place in the spent fuel pool instead of the reactor core. This will make use of the strong gamma field emitted by spent nuclear fuel.

Date: Friday, 20 December 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/netherlands-nrg-begins-new-molten-salt-technology-study-12-4-2019

The Petten HFR in North Holland. Photo courtesy NRG. Netherlands-based nuclear services provider NRG has completed an irradiation test on molten nuclear fuel salts inside the High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten.

NRG said this is the first irradiation of its kind since research carried out in the US in the 1960s.

Irradiation tests are a crucial step in the development of molten salt reactor technology, which NRG said is promising in terms of both safety and economy, while having the potential to avoid the release of long-living radioactive waste in severe accident scenarios.

NRG said completing the test means it can now examine the irradiated salt more closely in its labs. “This means we’ll really be able to see how the salt responds to irradiation in the reactor,” a statement said.

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/nrg-completes-key-irradiation-test-at-petten-9-3-2019

Shine Medical Isotopes yesterday broke ground on its first medical isotope production facility in Janesville, Wisconsin. Commercial production of isotopes, including molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), is scheduled to begin in 2021.

Date: Friday, 10 May 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ground-broken-for-US-medical-isotope-facility

Dutch Institute NRG in Petten began irradiation experiments in August to investigate the safe operation of molten salt reactors (MSRs). NRG said on its website that MSRs had the potential for increased passive safety and decreasing the production of long-living radioactive waste compared with existing NPPs, which use enriched uranium as the fuel and water at high pressure as the coolant. 

Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnrg-begins-experiments-with-molten-salt-reactor-tech-5918682

The second and final shipment of high-level waste (HLW) from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power plants at Sellafield.

Date: Monday, 17 October 2016
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-completes-return-of-Swiss-reprocessing-waste