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Five workers at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP were accidentally splashed with liquid containing radioactive materials while cleaning the piping for the plant’s Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), which is used to treat contaminated water accumulated at the plant.

Nitric acid

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfive-fukushima-workers-contaminated-after-contact-with-radioactive-water-11261041

Argentina’s National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica) and Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NA-SA) have signed a framework agreement for technical assistance to develop the CAREM small modular reactor (SMR) under construction in Argentina.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-agreement-seeks-to-support-argentinas-carem-smr-11261042

EDF says additional outages at the 1,300 MWe units 1&2 of its Cattenom NPP are planned to save about six months-worth of fuel before their next scheduled refuelling in 2025. “As of today Cattenom 1 will have to save a quantity of fuel equivalent to 160 days of full load operation” before its next refuelling outage scheduled for April 2025, EDF noted in a statement. Cattenom 2, needs to save 26 days-worth of fuel before its refuelling outage in January 2025. The fuel saving “will be done through imposed load limitations or outages”, EDF said. These outages will enable the reactors to save fuel for colder periods when power demand increases.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-plans-outages-at-cattenom-npp-to-save-fuel-11261043

Elektrárna Dukovany II, a wholly owned subsidiary of Czech power utility CEZ, has received a zoning decision for new nuclear units at the Dukovany NPP from the Ministry of Industry & Trade. The application for a zoning decision for two units was submitted in June 2021. “This step marks the successful completion of another milestone in the preparation schedule,” said CEZ Board Chairman Daniel Beneš. At the same time, it is also a clear signal to all bidders in the current tender for the construction of new nuclear power plants that the permitting process is being implemented.”

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-dukovany-units-receive-zoning-permit-11261044

US-based X-Energy Reactor Company has signed a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to 2024 to further advance the development of its mobile microreactor design. The agreement, awarded through the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, supports continuing work on architecture and key technologies for the preliminary design of X-energy’s transportable nuclear plant.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-signs-agreement-to-develop-x-energys-microreactor-11261045

Japan's fusion power project has produced first plasma at the JT-60SA research facility, the National Institutes for Quantum Science & Technology (QST) reported. The research will advance to the next phase, building and testing an experimental fusion reactor.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-jt-60sa-achieves-first-plasma-11261046

The US-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Paris-based Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) have announced a new collaboration on an upcoming NEA Joint Project focusing on waste management strategies for small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced nuclear energy systems.

Small modular reactor

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsepri-and-nea-to-collaborate-on-waste-management-for-smrs-11261047

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted Holtec Decommissioning International’s request to revise the emergency preparedness plan for the Indian Point NPP in Buchanan, New York, to reflect the plant’s decommissioning status. The approved exemptions will enable Holtec to establish and maintain an adequate level of radiological emergency preparedness during decommissioning. NRC said these exemptions are consistent with its actions at other decommissioning plants. Once Holtec implements the changes, state and local governments may rely on a comprehensive emergency management plan approach (all hazards) for offsite emergency response.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-approves-changes-to-indian-point-emergency-planning-requirements-11261048

The Pomeranian Voivode (governor|) Dariusz Drelich has issued a decision to determine the location of investments in the construction of the first NPP in Poland. This relates to three AP1000 Westinghouse reactors with a total capacity of 3750 MWe. This allows Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) to use the area for preparatory activities such as indicating, among other things, specific plots for implementation of the investment.