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UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo has announced a strategic and industrial partnership with France's NAAREA designed "to support all players in their industrial, technological, scientific and regulatory development" of Generation IV fast neutron reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-and-naarea-partner-to-support-fast-reactor-development-11445892
The UK government has outlined plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years to reduce electricity bills, support thousands of jobs and improve UK energy security. This includes exploring building a major new power station and investing in advanced nuclear fuel production, according to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nuclear-roadmap-envisaged-fourfold-increase-in-nuclear-generation-11439054
The UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and Great British Nuclear (GBN) have selected six companies to advance to next phase of the small modular reactor (SMR) competition for innovative nuclear technologies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-selects-six-companies-for-next-stage-of-smr-competition-11196025
If existing inventories of used nuclear fuel were recycled and repurposed as fuel for advanced fast reactors, it could generate zero-carbon electricity for Europe for up to 1000 years, according to international environmental campaign group RePlanet.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Extract-energy-from-used-nuclear-fuel,-says-enviro
Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics has applied for its containerised small modular thorium molten salt reactor design to undergo Generic Design Assessment (GDA) in the UK.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscopenhagen-atomics-submits-molten-salt-smr-design-10500286
US nuclear energy company the Lightbridge Corporation said on 5 July it had received approval for a key patent covering its metallic nuclear fuel rod design from the European Patent Office. Lightbridge said it will seek patent validation in key countries in the EU region, including France, the UK, Sweden, and others that already have a significant amount of nuclear generating capacity.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslightbridge-makes-progress-in-europe-and-vietnam-4947575
The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara
Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium
A UK firm has developed a new economic simulator to assess the cost of producing plutonium/uranium mixed oxide fuel (MOX). MOXSIM has been developed as a research tool to help governments, regulators, policy-makers, energy utilities and environmental organisations to explore the economic conditions necessary to make MOX nuclear fuel plants work more efficiently and cost-effectively.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 07 December 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssimulator-to-assess-the-cost-of-mox