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Agency completes first Osart mission at BN-800 fast neutron reactor
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/beloyarsk-nuclear-plant-operator-committed-to-safety-but-improvements-needed-says-iaea-11-5-2023
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has published a 60-page supplement to “The NEA Small Modular Reactor Dashboard”, which it published in March. The Dashboard tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 27 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnea-issues-supplement-to-its-smr-dashboard-11030329
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said the agreement was signed on 21 March on the sidelines of the state visit to Russia of China’s president Xi Jinping.
The document was signed by Rosatom director-general Alexey Likhachev and Zhang Kejian, chairman of the China Atomic Energy Authority.
Fast neutron reactors are said to offer more efficient use of uranium resources and the ability to burn actinides – chemical elements which are otherwise the long-lived component of high-level nuclear waste.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide “efficient, safe and sustainable energy”. Their closed fuel cycle – a fuel cycle that reuses spent fuel – can support long-term nuclear power development as part of the world’s future energy mix and decrease the burden of nuclear waste.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 24 March 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/china-and-russia-sign-agreement-to-continue-cooperation-3-4-2023
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has recently published a 73-page study, which tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment. NEA says the SMR designs are at various stages of development, from fundamental research on new concepts to commercial deployment and operation of mature designs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-development-tracked-by-nea-and-iaea-studies-10691068
Iran has begun construction of a 10 MW pool-type light water reactor nuclear research reactor of its own design in Isfahan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-starts-construction-of-research-reactor-in-isfahan-10137261
The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, has said that construction of a new research reactor in the central city of Isfahan will begin in the coming weeks. One of its tasks will be to test nuclear fuel for other reactors. nuclear fuel test for other reactors. He made the announcement during a visit to the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at the Isfahan site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiran-to-construct-research-reactor-in-isfahan-9891569
Brest-OD-300 is a 300-MW Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor that will run on mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel specifically designed for the purpose.
The plant is part of a pilot demonstration energy complex which comes under Russia’s Breakthrough project for the development of closed nuclear fuel cycle technology.
A closed nuclear fuel cycle means spent fuel is reprocessed and partly reused. Closing the nuclear fuel cycle would ease concerns over limited uranium resources and contribute towards making nuclear energy sustainable over the long term.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-begins-construction-of-brest-od-300-pilot-plant-in-siberia-6-2-2021
Indonesia's National Atomic Energy Agency (Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional - Batan) announced in March that it had launched a roadmap for developing a detailed engineering design for its Experimental Power Reactor (Reaktor Daya Eksperimental - RDE).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsindonesia-looks-to-smrs-6089073
Indonesia's National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan) has launched a roadmap for developing a detailed engineering design for its Experimental Power Reactor (Reaktor Daya Eksperimental, RDE). The design of the country's indigenous small modular reactor is expected to be finalised later this year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 16 March 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Progress-with-Indonesian-SMR-project
A multifunctional radiochemical research facility under construction at the site of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR), in Dimitrovgrad, Russia is to be included in the planned International Research Centre based on the multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor (MBIR) also being built at NIIAR), according to Vyacheslav Pershukov, director of the innovation management at Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. The radiochemical facility, scheduled for completion in 2018, will be used for testing technologies aimed at closing the nuclear fuel cycle.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 May 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-international-research-centre-to-include-radiochemical-facility-5811009