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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has witnessed the start of fuel loading at the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. The PFBR is a 500 MWe sodium-cooled fast breeder nuclear reactor being constructed at Kokkilamedu, near Kalpakkam. The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) designed the reactor based on the decades of experience gained from operating the lower power Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-loading-begins-at-indias-pfbr-11572275
Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, has manufactured the first three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, which also contain other transuranic elements including americium-241 and neptunium-237. The assemblies, which have completed acceptance tests, will be loaded into the BN-800 fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP in 2024. The fuel will undergo pilot operation (lead-test assemblies programme) during three micro-campaigns of approximately one and a half years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-manufactures-first-bn-800-mox-fuel-assemblies-with-minor-actinides-11359521
Public hearings have been held in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region on justification of a licence to use nuclear materials during research to be undertaken by the BN-800 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor at unit 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP. The materials made available for discussion included a preliminary environmental impact assessment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-bn-800-fast-reactor-prepares-to-burn-minor-actinides-11347674
Japan's Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation said on 19 March that it has established redox treatment technology for metal-oxide to minimise secondary radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 25 March 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstoshiba-team-extracts-elements-from-vitrified-waste-7058105
A new fission-fusion hybrid reactor will be assembled at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute by the end of 2018, Peter Khvostenko, scientific adviser of the Kurchatov complex on thermonuclear energy and plasma technologies, announced on 14 May. The physical start-up of the facility is scheduled for 2020.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-develops-a-fission-fusion-hybrid-reactor-6168535
A new nuclear fuel cycle providing acceptable and reliable back-end solutions will be essential to sustain dynamic growth in global nuclear energy, Liudmila Zalimskaya, general director of JSC Tenex, told the World Nuclear Association's Symposium in London last week. Proposed approaches centre on reprocessing and recycling of used fuel, allowing uranium and plutonium resources to be used to their fullest extent while reducing the amounts of waste for disposal. Tenex is the nuclear fuel cycle product supplier subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-proposes-new-closed-fuel-cycle
Russian nuclear engineers plan by the end of 2016 or early 2017 to start tests to study the feasibility of "burning" the highly radioactive element americium in nuclear reactors, Yevgeny Adamov, supervisor of the Proryv (Breakthrough) project, said in an interview with RIA Novosti on 14 October.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-to-test-transmutation-of-americium-5035631
Fusion research company Tokamak Solutions has secured £170,000 of equity investment from Sir Martin and Lady Audrey Wood, the Rainbow Seed Fund, Oxford Instruments plc and investor members of the Oxford Early Investments network.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsex-ukaea-fusion-scientists-go-private