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The UK government has announced it will invest GBP300 million (USD381 million) to launch a high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) programme, making the UK the first country in Europe to launch such a nuclear fuel programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 09 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-to-launch-HALEU-production-programme
A recent statement from Fitch Ratings casts doubt on any new nuclear construction in the US in the immediate future. Similar concerns were voiced during discussions at a full committee hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources to Examine Opportunities and Challenges Associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor Commercialisation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrowing-uncertainty-in-us-regarding-economics-of-new-nuclear-11347683
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
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
Rosatom's TVEL fuel company has dispatched all shipments to China scheduled for 2022 in order to supply the first core loading of the CFR-600 sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron reactor at Xiapu in China's Fujian province.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-for-Chinese-fast-reactor-dispatched-from-Russ
Rosatom’s fuel company Tvel has completed all shipments to China scheduled for 2022 as part of the fulfilment of Russian obligations to supply the initial load of fuel for the CFR-600 fast neutron reactor, China’s flagship project. Three batches of nuclear fuel were shipped by rail from the Mashinostroitelny Zavod in Elektrostal (MSZ, part of Tvel). The delivery included all the fuel assemblies for the initial loading of the core, as well as fuel for the first refuelling. In addition, the reactor control and protection assemblies were delivered by air transport.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-completes-fuel-deliveries-for-chinas-cfr-600-fast-reactor-10486493
Tvel, the fuel manufacturing subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said further batches are expected to be sent by the end of 2022. The fuel will be used for the first fuel loading of the CFR-600.
Tvel said it has been working on the fuel project for the Chinese reactor for more than three years.
The fuel assemblies were manufactured at the Elemash Machine-Building Plant in Elektrostal, near Moscow.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 08 October 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-s-tvel-delivers-first-batch-of-fuel-for-china-s-cfr-600-demonstrator-10-5-2022
The AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM), a subsidiary of Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL, has successfully developed the technology and manufactured experimental fuel pellets from uranium disilicide for light water reactors. The move is part of a programme for the development of so-called accident-tolerant fuel (ATF).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVEL-develops-accident-tolerant-fuel-pellets