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Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has delivered uranium nitride coated uranium oxycarbide tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel to NASA's Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion programme. The company says this demonstrates the "flexibility, precision and value" of its Pilot Fuel Manufacturing Facility (PFM).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 15 June 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-delivers-TRISO-particle-fuel-to-NASA
Russia’s NA Dollezhal Scientific Research & Design Institute of Power Engineering (Nikiet - part of Rosatom) has completed the preliminary design of a research molten-salt reactor for the Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC) in Krasnoyarsk as part of a Russia-wide research effort. The draft design is for a reactor plant with an innovative research reactor which uses a circulating molten fuel salt (IZhSR). The work was carried out in cooperation with the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute and a number of Rosatom enterprises. A detailed R&D programme was drawn up and approved by Rosatom, which will substantiate the design’s technical solutions, then build and put into operation the IZhSR reactor plant at MCC.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 05 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-completes-preliminary-design-for-molten-salt-reactor-10486601
As policymakers grapple with the twin challenges of climate change and a post-COVID economic recovery, the benefits of nuclear power are clearer than ever, but the industry still has some way to go in addressing perceptions of its alleged drawbacks with cost, safety and radioactive waste. This was the overriding message of the three panellists in a webinar held last week by Utilities Middle East in partnership with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-barrier-to-nuclear-is-perception,-says-panel
Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) - a subsidiary of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) - has developed a design concept as part of NASA-funded research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems for potential use in deep space travel. The concept uses a specialised variation of USNC's proprietary fully ceramic microencapsulated, tristructural isotropic fuel, developed for use in power reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 October 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-Tech-develops-deep-space-propulsion-system
Russia’s fuel company TVEL is developing accident tolerant fuel (ATF) for light water reactors and plans to begin testing it in late 2019, according to Kirill Komarov, first deputy general director of state nuclear corporation Rosatom. "The basis of all these developments are technological solutions in the field of materials science, related to zirconium and a variety of other materials, the alloy of which will enable the fuel to be extremely durable and resistant to any type of exposure, " he said on 18 July.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 23 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-accident-tolerant-fuel-to-be-tested-next-year-6261481
FAE SA, the Argentinean manufacturer of seamless zirconium tubing for nuclear fuel elements has signed a contract to supply Alloy 690 seamless tubes to manufacture 12 helicoidal steam generators for the National Atomic Energy Commission’s (CNEA’s) CAREM small modular reactor (SMR) project. The tubes are 35 metres long - the longest ever made for this application - and will be delivered during 2017.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstubing-contract-for-argentinas-carem-5741127