US-based NuScale Power Corporation is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to perform a techno-economic assessment (TEA) of a NuScale small modular reactor’s (SMR’s) ability to implement a cost-effective steam heat augmentation design. According to NuScale, the study will be based on process data from a US chemical facility to help the plant meet its electric power and process steam requirements with NuScale’s technology. This will be a highly collaborative effort with engineers from ORNL and NuScale forming a composite engineering team. The study should be completed within one year.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuscale-power-and-ornl-to-undertake-smr-assessment-11323905
Unit 3 at Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP has resumed service after being taken offline since 19 November because of a technical problem, according to owner/operator Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO). The reactor "was in normal production when a fault in the turbine plant automatically stopped the facility's electricity production”, TVO said. "The cause of the fault was revealed to be a malfunctioning temperature measurement in the generator's cooling system." TVO added that "the incident had no impact on nuclear safety.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinlands-olkiluoto-3-resumes-service-following-another-technical-problem-11323922
Ceremony marking to the start of construction of unit 1 at China’s Xudabao NPP in Liaoning Province, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. The unit will have a 1,290 MWe CAP1000 reactor, China’s adaptation of the Westinghouse AP-1000. The unit is expected to enter commercial operation in 2028 followed by unit 2 a year later. Construction of units 3&4 with Rosatom-supplied VVER-1200 reactors is already underway. Unit 3 started construction in July 2021 and unit 4 in May 2022. The plant will have six units in total, each with a capacity of over 1,000 MWe, with an investment outlay of over CNY100bn ($13.8bn).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-celebrates-start-of-construction-at-xudabao-1-11323924
Ukraine’s Zaporizhia NPP (ZNPP) is transitioning its reactor unit 5 to cold from hot shutdown in order to determine the cause of boron detected in a cooling circuit. This still leaves one of the plant’s six reactors in hot shutdown to produce necessary steam and heating, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi reported. Unit 4 will remain in hot shutdown. There are currently no plans to bring a second unit into hot shutdown to replace unit 5, the plant said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscold-shutdown-for-zaporizhia-unit-5-11323925
Agency completes first Osart mission at BN-800 fast neutron reactor
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/beloyarsk-nuclear-plant-operator-committed-to-safety-but-improvements-needed-says-iaea-11-5-2023
Budapest seeking to diversify energy supplies, says Tass report
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/parliament-supports-plans-to-use-non-russian-fuel-for-paks-nuclear-station-11-5-2023
A project to produce 100 tonnes a year of clean hydrogen from the operation of the Angra nuclear power plant's two units was detailed at a seminar on sustainable hydrogen production in Brazil.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Eletronuclear-plans-clean-hydrogen-production
The Hungarian Parliament has reportedly supported an amendment to the country's nuclear energy policy that would allow alternative sources to be used for fuel for the Paks nuclear power plant, which has until now relied on Russian-supplied fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungary-to-consider-alternative-sources-for-nuclea
Fresh nuclear fuel has been loaded into the starboard side reactor on the Akademik Lomonosov in the first operation of its kind, with the process due to be completed by the end of the year, Rosatom says.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Refuelling
October's harvest of cobalt-60, used worldwide to sterilise medical equipment, was the largest since the company began producing the isotope in the 1980s and included two shipments of medical-grade material for therapeutic use.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bruce-completes-largest-to-date-radioisotope-deliv
Page 3 of 20