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Russia’s Mashinostroitelny Zavod in Elektrostal (MSZ, part of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL) has manufactured and delivered new second-generation nuclear fuel for the PIK research reactor. The PIK high-flux research reactor at the BP Konstantinov Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (PNPI) in Gatchina (part of the Kurchatov Institute) is the world's largest neutron source.

Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-fuel-produced-for-russias-pik-high-flux-research-reactor-10759761

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has released its updated blueprint for the next ten years of the programme to clean up US legacy nuclear sites. Fifteen sites remain on EM's list of active clean-up sites: Brookhaven National Laboratory has been removed from the list after the completion of work there.

Date: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-legacy-cleanup-programme-looks-to-next-decade

The legislative body for San Luis Obispo County has expressed its support for keeping open the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, voting to ask California Governor Gavin Newsom to ensure Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) has the necessary permits to keep the state's only remaining nuclear power plant in operation.

Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Local-legislators-support-Diablo-Canyon

Of the 220 research reactors in operation today, only seven are on the African continent. In other words, with 17.2% of the world population and the strongest expected growth in the coming years, Africans have access to only 3% of the world's nuclear research reactor capacity. Marguerite Leonardi, senior advisor at NPC Consulting & Engineering, and Professor Vincent Lukanda Mwamba, Commissaire Général of the Commissariat Général à l’Energie Atomique, explain why that is a concern and why the research reactor in Kinshasa should be restarted urgently.

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Why-research-reactors-are-so-important-f

Russia’s BP Konstantinova Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics has announced a tender for the development of a core design for the PIK research reactor in Gatchina, RosTender.info reported on 7 July.

Date: Friday, 10 July 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstender-announced-to-provide-fuel-for-russias-pik-reactor-8018410

The USA and Romania have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on civil nuclear energy. The agreement was signed by US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă on 24 September during the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

Date: Friday, 27 September 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Romania-and-USA-agree-to-nuclear-cooperation

Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water has dropped plans to build a NPP, citing cost concerns, the Kuwait Times reported on 24 August .The ministry decided to retract the plans because studies proved it was unfeasible and too expensive and because  alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power, were more cost effective. Earlier in August, Russia expressed an interest in helping the kingdom develop its nuclear power sector.

Date: Monday, 29 August 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskuwait-drops-nuclear-power-plans-4991602

Following a US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to revise Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations (40 CFR 190) in February 2014, the American Nuclear Society and Nuclear Energy Institute have announced that they have commented.

Date: Wednesday, 06 August 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nuclear-bodies-submit-comments-on-radiation-protection-4336016

Birds living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have, on average, five percent smaller brains, according to research led by a University of South Carolina scientist.

Background contamination levels (Ci/km2) in the Chernobyl region and location of bird study sites

Date: Monday, 14 February 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschernobyl-radiation-affects-bird-brain-size