The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and Bangor University in north Wales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to advance education and research in nuclear energy, including on new and innovative fuels, co-generation and nuclear thermal hydraulics.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/National-Nuclear-Laboratory-and-Bangor-University
Germany's federal radioactive waste company, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), has awarded Hanover-based construction firm Ed Züblin AG a contract to construct the radioactive waste reloading hall at the Konrad repository in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contract-for-waste-repackaging-building-at-Konrad
JSC Kazatomprom has not experienced any issues or restrictions affecting the supply of its products to customers around the world, but is working to reinforce its alternative Caspian Sea route, the company said in its quarterly update. Uranium production was down year-on-year but its 2022 guidance remains unchanged.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kazatomprom-feels-COVID-impact-but-shipments-conti
The BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast reactor planned for unit 5 of Russia’s Beloyarsk NPP in the Sverdlovsk region could be built on the sites of the decommissioned units 1&2 at Beloyarsk, Ivan Sidorov, director of the Beloyarsk NPP has said. Beloyarsk NPP began operating in April 1964.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-bn1200-may-be-built-on-decommissioned-npp-sites-9887355
French nuclear regulator Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) has decided to extend the temporary framework for thermal discharges from the Golfech, Saint-Alban, Blayais and Bugey NPPs until 7 August, noting that the current exceptional heat wave is leading to the warming of certain rivers used to cool NPPs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrench-regulator-allows-temporary-modification-of-thermal-discharges-at-npps-during-heatwave-9887342
Work has begun at NRG’s High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, to investigate material for fuel cladding tubes, according to NRG.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspetten-starts-research-into-fuel-cladding-for-edf-9887376
UK-based Seddon Construction Ltd has been appointed by Sellafield to deliver the building fit-out requirement, through a fourth framework agreement worth GBP175 million (213m) over the next 17 years, until March 2039.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssellafield-signs-agreements-with-seddon-and-jacobs-9887429
Two Soviet-era reactors at the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant in the Slovak Republic have been fully dismantled and the components decontaminated for safe storage or recycling, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsslovakias-bohunice-reactors-fully-dismantled-9887465
Tim Gitzel said the move to intermittent, weather dependent, renewable energy, has left some jurisdictions struggling with power shortages and spiking energy prices, or dependence on Russia.
“We are benefiting from higher average realised prices in both our uranium sales and our fuel services sales as the market continues to transition and geopolitics continue to highlight concentration of supply concerns,” Mr Gitzel said.
“The good news for us is that many are turning to nuclear – which provides safe, reliable, affordable, carbon-free baseload electricity while also offering energy security and independence.”
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/earnings-soar-as-company-warns-of-too-much-focus-on-intermittent-renewables-7-5-2022
The Versatile Test Reactor, or VTR, was proposed in 2018 by the Trump administration, and if Congress provides funding, would be the first fast nuclear test reactor to operate in the US in nearly three decades.
The VTR project did not get any money from Congress during fiscal year 2022. The DOE has submitted a funding proposal for fiscal year 2023.
In May the DOE published a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the VTR, a 300-MW sodium-cooled, fast-neutron reactor will be the first new test reactor to be built in the US in decades.
At the time, the DOE said it had chosen INL as the preferred site but would make a final decision within months. An alternative site in the final environmental impact statement was Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/doe-confirms-plans-to-go-ahead-with-versatile-test-reactor-in-idaho-7-5-2022
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