All the fuel assemblies at the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR), which is being decommissioned, have now been transferred to a water-filled storage facility, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has announced.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 22 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defuelling-completed-at-Japan-s-Monju-reactor
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has restored the connection to its last remaining operating 750 kV power line after it was lost for the third time in ten days, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmilitary-action-continues-around-zaporizhzhia-npp-as-ukrainian-troops-try-to-seize-the-plant-10102201
Power company Fortum is starting a two-year feasibility study to explore prerequisites for new nuclear. As part of the study, Fortum will examine commercial, technological and societal, including political, legal and regulatory, conditions both for small modular reactors (SMRs) and conventional large reactors. The study’s geographic focus is Finland and Sweden.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfortum-launches-feasibility-study-to-investigate-sites-for-new-nuclear-10102242
Canada’s General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have initiated projects to advance the commercialisation of magnetised target fusion energy as part of an important collaborative agreement. With these unique projects, General Fusion said it will benefit from the vast experience of the UKAEA’s team. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus in Oxford. Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-fusion-and-ukaea-agree-to-advance-commercial-fusion-energy-10102266
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to continue operating until mid-April. Scholz’s order ends weeks of dispute within his governing coalition. The head of the liberal Free Democratic Party coalition partner, Christian Lindner, was pressing to keep all three plants running until at least 2024, while the Green Party led by Economy Minister Robert Habeck insisted on closing them as scheduled at the end of 2022. The Greens wanted only two plants to be kept on standby, to be used if needed in face of the energy crisis sparked by European sanctions on Russian energy. The liberal Free Democratic Party, on the other hand, had been pushing to keep all three reactors active until 2024.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgermany-extends-nuclear-power-use-until-april-10102309
US Southern Company Services (SCS) and TerraPower recently built and installed a new test facility at TerraPower’s laboratory in Everett, Washington, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). The Integrated Effects Test, or IET, is the largest chloride salt system in the world and will be instrumental in helping to develop the team’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) technology, NE noted. The installation of the IET was part of a seven-year, $76 million cost-shared project with the DOE to further develop the MCFR system. TerraPower and SCS, a subsidiary of Southern Company, plan to demonstrate the reactor in the early 2030s.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-southern-company-and-terrapower-build-worlds-largest-chloride-salt-system-10102329
Sweden's new centre-right coalition government which formally took office on 18 October with Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson as Prime Minister, has adopted a programme which calls for the expansion of nuclear power. Four parties, comprising the Christian Democrats, the Liberals, the Moderates and the Sweden Democrats announced a written agreement on policies – the Tidöavtalet – on 14 October. The agreement was named after the negotiations that took place during the week at Tidö castle outside Västerås. The four parties have a narrow parliamentary majority. However, the far-right Sweden Democrats are not part of the coalition, although the government will need its support to achieve a parliamentary majority for its policies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-swedish-government-supports-nuclear-energy-expansion-10102335
TRISO-X, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-energy, has begun construction of the first US commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) will be the genesis of future commercial-scale advanced nuclear energy innovation and deployment, creating more than 400 jobs and attracting an investment of approximately $300 million, TRISO-X said. TF3 is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstriso-x-breaks-ground-on-commercial-advanced-nuclear-fuel-facility-10102345
Damage has been detected in the inner parts of the feed water pumps of the turbine plant at Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 EPR reactor, plant owner-operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has said. “In connection with maintenance and inspection work, damage has been observed in the inner parts of the feed water pumps of the Olkiluoto 3 turbine plant. The matter will probably have an impact on the progress of the trial operation of Olkiluoto 3 and the start of regular electricity production,” TVO noted.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-to-ol3-10102381
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
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