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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
Experts at an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) webinar “Atoms for Space: Nuclear Systems for Space Exploration”, agreed that nuclear technology will continue to play a vital role in future space missions. More than 500 people from 66 countries attended the webinar on 15 and 16 February. Experts from the public and private sectors concluded that humanity is poised to embark on a new age of space travel to Mars, our solar system and beyond as nuclear power and related technologies promise to make interplanetary missions faster, more efficient and economical.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 24 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-says-nuclear-is-vital-for-space-missions-9503585
Canadian Earth ‘x-ray’ start-up Ideon Technologies and France’s Orano Group (Orano), said on 6 July that they have deployed the world’s first cosmic-ray muon detector for use in industry-standard boreholes. The Eureka-approved research and development project, which is receiving advisory services and funding support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), will run from now until the end of 2021 at McClean Lake, an Orano site in northern Saskatchewan.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsideon-and-orano-deploy-worlds-first-borehole-muon-tomography-solution-8879394
The world's first cosmic-ray muon detector developed specifically for use in industry-standard boreholes, has been deployed at Orano's McClean Lake site in northern Saskatchewan where it will be used to image a uranium deposit. The technology developed by Canadian start-up company Ideon Technologies could transform mineral exploration.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 08 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Transformative-muon-technology-deployed-at-McClean
Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) - a subsidiary of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) - has developed a design concept as part of NASA-funded research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems for potential use in deep space travel. The concept uses a specialised variation of USNC's proprietary fully ceramic microencapsulated, tristructural isotropic fuel, developed for use in power reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 October 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-Tech-develops-deep-space-propulsion-system
BWX Technologies, Inc yesterday hosted officials from NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) for progress updates and technology demonstrations related to BWXT’s nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) programme.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 October 2018
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NASA-officials-get-update-on-nuclear-thermal-propu
Some of the fuel in the damaged unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant has melted and dropped into the primary containment vessel, initial results from using a muon detection system indicate. Part of the fuel, however, is believed to remain in the reactor pressure vessel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 02 October 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Muons-suggest-location-of-fuel-in-unit-3
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded BWXT Nuclear Energy a $18.8 million contract to initiate conceptual designs for a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor in support of a possible future manned mission to Mars. BWXT Nuclear Energy is a subsidiary of nuclear components, fuel and services provider BWX Technologies, which is based in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 August 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NASA-boosts-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-with BWXT-c
Los Alamos National Laboratory will assist Toshiba in developing a muon tracker for use helping decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 07 July 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslanl-muon-tracker-to-help-at-fukushima-4311776