Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree appointing Vladislav Isaev as General Director of the Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE). He will hold the position for two years. The relevant document is published on the website of the official publication of legal acts.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-director-general-appointed-at-zaporizhia-npp-federal-enterprise-11661390
Rosatom has listed the result for 2023 of the state programme: “Development of Engineering, Technologies & Scientific Research (RTTN Razvitii Tekhniki Tekhnologii I Nauchnikh Issledovanii) in the field of the use of atomic energy in the Russian Federation”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-lists-results-of-science-and-technology-development-programme-11661393
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a a regional Clean Energy Training Centre in Warsaw, Poland to serve Poland and the broader Central European region as a training hub for countries considering new or expanded nuclear reactor deployment. It builds on previous international agreements to expand global nuclear energy capacity and combat the climate crisis.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-launches-training-centre-in-poland-11661395
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) in Daejeon has broken its previous plasma operation record during its first plasma campaign after upgrading its divertors, (plasma facing components) to tungsten monoblocks. KFE said it had sustained the plasma with ion temperatures of 100m degrees Celsius for 48 seconds during the KSTAR plasma campaign run from December 2023 to February 2024. Additionally, it achieved the high confinement mode (H-mode) for over 100 seconds.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsanother-record-for-south-koreas-kstar-11661397
The University of Warsaw (UW) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s Kepco International Nuclear Graduate School (KINGS), Pusan National University (PNU) and Korea Nuclear Association for International Cooperation (KNA). The agreement will support the establishment of a European training centre for nuclear energy at the UW’s Faculty of Physics.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorean-support-for-warsaw-universitys-nuclear-training-centre-11661398
Work has begun on the foundation of the evaporative cooling tower for unit 7 at the Leningrad NPP. As part of the project, 919 piles with a diameter of 0.6 metres and a length of 35 metres will be used to lay the foundation for the cooling tower. Construction of the tower will require more than 13,000 cubic metres of concrete. At a final height of 179 metres, it will become one of the highest structures in the Leningrad region.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswork-begins-on-foundation-of-leningrad-7-cooling-tower-11661406
London-based Nemo wants to develop standards for emerging sector
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/global-names-announce-new-association-for-nuclear-power-in-shipping-4-5-2024
Ukrainian nuclear power giant Energoatom says that it got the backing of the local community after a day of public hearings about plans to build a facility near the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk for the production of fuel assemblies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Energoatom-gets-backing-for-new-nuclear-fuel-facil
Dutch specialty metals company AMG Critical Materials NV has created a new company - named NewMOX SAS - to develop commercial facilities for the production of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel using AMG's sintering furnace systems.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/AMG-forms-new-company-to-promote-MOX-technology
The "inclusion of facilitated and affordable nuclear technologies in the resource deliberations of the COP process is essential", Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 06 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/COP29-hosts
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