A critical project to upgrade electrical power network at the UK’s Sellafield site has achieved an important milestone, according to Sellafield Ltd. The Electrical Distribution Network Upgrade Project (EDNUP) is working to refurbish the Sellafield site’s electricity system. Teams working on the project installed 33 concrete base slabs in 2023, achieving a key target.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrefurbishment-of-sellafield-sites-electricity-system-makes-progress-11438367
The UK government has outlined plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power for 70 years to reduce electricity bills, support thousands of jobs and improve UK energy security. This includes exploring building a major new power station and investing in advanced nuclear fuel production, according to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-nuclear-roadmap-envisaged-fourfold-increase-in-nuclear-generation-11439054
A small-angle neutron scattering instrument (SANS) has been delivered to the Argentine Neutron Beam Laboratory (LAHN - Laboratorio Argentino de Haces de Neutrones) at the Ezeiza Atomic Centre. Argentina’s National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica) said the SANS was donated by the German Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) institute following the closure of the BER-II reactor in 2019. The instrument, which is 33 metres long when assembled, was delivered to the site in eight containers. The detection tube alone, which works in a high vacuum, is 16 metres long and 1.5 metres in diameter.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsargentinas-neutron-beam-laboratory-receives-equipment-from-closed-german-reactor-11439104
The UK’s planned Sizewell C NPP has triggered its Development Consent Order (DCO), opening the way to formal construction of the new 3.2 GWe power station on the Suffolk coast. The project was granted permission to build in July 2022 allowing preparatory works to begin, but many obligations remained to be satisfied before construction could start under the DCO.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssizewell-c-triggers-development-consent-order-11439123
Bulgaria is waiting for "more sensible common EU stance on Ukraine” before it sells equipment from the unfinished Belene NPP to Kyiv, Energy Minister Rumen Radev told journalists after a ceremony marking the centenary of the Boyana Hydroelectric Power Plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbulgaria-holds-back-on-sale-of-belene-nuclear-equipment-to-ukraine-11439134
China’s FDS consortium is currently working on projects to develop a family of reactors that use heavy metal as a coolant, Dr Liu Chao of the International Academy of Neutron Sciences in Chongqing told the Sixth International Scientific & Technical Conference on Innovative Designs and Technologies of Nuclear Power (ISTC NIKIET – 2023). During the plenary session of the conference held at Russia’s NA Dollezhal Scientific Research & Design Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET), Dr Liu explained that neutron sources are the important experimental platform for the R&D of advanced nuclear energy and nuclear technology applications.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-outlines-heavy-metal-coolant-reactor-projects-11439144
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has completed a project to assess how well existing IAEA safety standards apply to new technologies such as small modular reactors. The results are presented in the IAEA Safety Report No 123 Applicability of Safety Standards to Non-Water-Cooled Reactors and Small Modular Reactors. The 292-page report identifies gaps and areas for additional consideration covering over 90 safety standards related to the entire life cycle of nuclear power plants.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-publication-assesses-applicability-of-current-safety-standards-to-innovative-technologies-11439324
Washington State energy provider Energy Northwest has signed an agreement with Bellevue-based utility Puget Sound Energy to support its programme investigating the feasibility of developing and deploying a next-generation nuclear energy facility.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-utility-invests-in-advanced-reactor-development-11439310
Beijing-based Betavolt New Energy Technology has developed a 3V nuclear battery that uses radioactive nickel-63 as the energy source and a diamond semiconductor as the energy converter. Betavolt says atomic are a direct current power source, and can produce pulse power with a higher life by adding supercapacitors as energy storage devices.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-betavolt-develops-50-year-nuclear-battery-11439320
Government aiming to raise £20bn from outside investors for two France-supplied EPR plants
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/construction-moves-a-step-closer-for-uk-nuclear-reactor-project-1-2-2024
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