The Board of Directors of France’s Orano has approved investment for the project to extend the production capacity of the Georges Besse II (GB-II) uranium enrichment plant on the Tricastin site (Drôme et Vaucluse). With a projected investment of €1.7bn ($1.8bn), this will enable Orano to increase production capacities by more than 30%, corresponding to 2.5m SWU (separative work units).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsorano-approves-georges-besse-ii-extension-11242868
Russia’s AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power Engineering (IPPE – part of Rosatom) in Obninsk has completed a five-year programme to deal with sodium metal from the BR-10 sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor now being decommissioned. The reactor was closed in 2002 after 43 years of operation. Used nuclear fuel from the reactor is brought to a safe state using a two-stage technology developed by specialists of the Institute’s hot cell laboratory.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-develops-technology-to-deal-with-sodium-from-decommissioned-fast-reactors-11242871
Unit 4 of the Dukovany NPP in the Czech Republic has been shut down for refuelling. Besides fuel replacement, unit 4 will undergo regular repair and maintenance. Plant spokesman Jiri Bezdek said the unit will use for the first time new-generation fuel. Technicians will remove all 349 fuel assemblies from the reactor. Once the servicing is complete, they will return some of the used fuel and 78 fresh fuel assemblies to the reactor. The new assemblies will contain PK3+ fuel, which is designed to make the use of uranium in the fuel more efficient, Bezdek said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdukovany-4-to-switch-to-new-generation-russian-fuel-11242878
Continuing reliance on Russian imports could have significant impact, says report
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/eu-s-strong-position-under-threat-from-foreign-dependencies-10-2-2023
Fuel loading begins at nuclear reactor in west of country as country aims for major capacity increase
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/kakrapar-progress-marks-beginning-of-major-phwr-new-build-programme-says-new-delhi-10-2-2023
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
"A changing policy landscape is creating opportunities for a nuclear comeback," according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the latest edition of its World Energy Outlook, with nuclear generating capacity expected to increase from 417 GWe in 2022 to 620 GWe in 2050 in a scenario based on existing energy policies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IEA-sees-increasing-role-for-nuclear-in-energy-tra
Radiant, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation and Westinghouse have been awarded US Department of Energy funding totalling USD3.9 million for front-end engineering and experiment design of their respective microreactor designs in a new test bed facility at Idaho National Laboratory.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-microreactor-designs-selected-for-US-test-be
18 of country’s 19 commercially operational atomic plants in Ontario
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/support-for-nuclear-highest-in-province-with-most-reactors-study-shows-10-1-2023
The flushing of the active and passive safety systems with the open reactor are described as a key moment in the pre-start-up checks for the first reactor at Kursk II nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Flushing-of-safety-systems-at-Kursk-II
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