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France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to establish the industrialisation process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the university's FRM II research reactor. Framatome noted this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever realised in Europe for research reactor operations.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Production-to-begin-of-innovative-fuel-for-German
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has closed its Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) reactor at the Lucas Heights nuclear medicine precinct to undergo necessary upgrades and maintenance. OPAL is a state-of-the-art 20 MWt multi-purpose reactor that uses low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The $300m OPAL reactor, supplied by Argentina’s INVAP, was opened in 2007 with an estimated design life of 60 years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanstos-opal-reactor-closed-for-upgrades-11688878
Argentina’s RA-10 multi-purpose research reactor at Ezeiza Atomic Centre (CAE - El Centro Atómico Ezeiza) in Buenos Aires province, is now about 80% completed, according to project manager Herman Blaumann. "The civil work is already finished and in terms of supplies and installations the progress is 75%. This week the reactor's reflector tank will arrive ... the installation of which is another key step in the work,” he told Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino during a tour of the facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsargentinas-ra-10-research-reactor-nearing-completion-11560383
Samples of the fuel began tests in two research reactors in 2022, with Rosatom reporting they "fundamentally confirmed the functionality of the fuel design" for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Reactor-testing-of-HTGR-fuel-confirms-functionalit
NAC International's patented Optimus-L packaging system to contain and transport high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) TRISO fuel has been approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Such fuel will be used in advanced reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 13 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-approves-HALEU-transport-package
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) announced that a technology breakthrough in its patented Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel allows a fuel geometry that results in both higher power and increased safety, enabling its Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) to produce three times more power.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 03 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-flexibility-gives-MMR-range-of-power-outputs
Japan's Agency for Natural Resources & Energy (ANRE - part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry) has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as the core company to lead development of a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) programme. MHI will coordinate R&D, design, and construction of the HTGR demonstration reactor that ANRE plans to put into operation in the 2030s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-selected-as-lead-company-for-htgr-reactor-development-11032459
The joint report by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) establishes a common regulatory position on tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel qualification, for use in the licensing of advanced reactor and small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canadian,-US-regulators-publish-joint-TRISO-report
Rosatom and the Government of Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug signed an agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to co-operate in deployment of a low-power NPP (ASMM) using a Shelf-M reactor plant. The agreement, signed by Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev and Chukotka Acting Governor Vladislav Kuznetsov, outlines the procedure for organising interaction for the construction of a ASMM to supply power the Sovinoye gold deposit and Chukotka settlements.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-to-build-shelf-m-microreactor-by-2030-10955643
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