EDF and Westinghouse will begin a feasibility assessment and target an anticipated Cobalt-59 load date in the late 2020s with the first Cobalt-60 harvest in the early 2030s.
Westinghouse said the MoU marks the first step for production in Europe of Cobalt-60 for medical uses.
Cobalt-60, a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt, is produced artificially in nuclear reactors. It has a number of applications including the inspection of materials to reveal internal structure, flaws, or foreign objects and in the sterilisation of food. In medicine, it is used to treat cancer and to sterilise medical equipment.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/westinghouse-and-edf-sign-mou-to-produce-radioisotope-in-french-reactors-12-1-2021
Net-zero needs nuclear, UK minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change Greg Hands told the country's industry at the Nuclear Industry Association's Nuclear2021 conference in London last week in a strong message of support. The following is the text of his speech.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-UK-is-on-a-mission-for-fission
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Rolls-Royce SMR Limited and Sheffield Forgemasters to jointly explore commercial mechanisms for a long-term collaboration on the supply of forgings to the Rolls-Royce UK small modular reactor (SMR) fleet. A Rolls-Royce-led UK SMR consortium aims to build up to 10 SMRs by 2035.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sheffield-Forgemasters-to-supply-Rolls-Royce-SMR-f
Nukem Technologies has completed cutting up the pressure vessel of the Barsebäck 1 reactor in Sweden. The company said its two-stage thermal cutting technique would be refined and used on Barsebäck 2 as well as Oskarshamn 1 and 2.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Barseback-reactor-vessel-dismantled
EDF Energy will 'get on with' work to construct two EPR units at Sizewell C in Suffolk, UK, as soon as it receives government permission, which could come within six months, said the project's director of financing, Julia Pyke. She added that the company is working to fuel the reactors with recycled uranium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 07 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sizewell-C-could-use-recycled-uranium
France’s NAAREA, which is developing 4th generation micro-nuclear power, and international engineering group Assystem have signed a cooperation agreement to build an ultra-compact micro-nuclear power generator, the XSMR.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnaarea-and-assystem-to-co-operate-on-xsmr-micro-reactor-9297375
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (Pre-SALTO) follow up review mission team of experts on 26 November completed a review of long term operational safety at unit 1 of the Atucha nuclear power plant in Argentina at the request of the Argentinian government.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-concludes-lto-safety-review-at-atucha-nuclear-plant-9297409
Rosatom’s Fuel Company and decommissioning industry integrator, TVEL JSC on 2 December signed co-operation agreements on decommissioning with France’s Robatel Industries and a group of French companies D&S Groupe as well as with Czech Škoda JS. The agreements were signed on the sidelines of the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE 2021) in Paris.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-tvel-signs-decommissioning-agreements-with-french-and-czech-companies-9297417
Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) has formally rejected Berkeley Energia's authorisation to build a uranium processing plant at the company's Salamanca project in western Spain.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsspain-rejects-plans-for-salamanca-uranium-project-9297450
The company said the new investment, led by Singapore-based investment company Temasek, significantly expands its portfolio of institutional, sovereign and high net worth investors, providing the prelude to a large financing round being prepared for 2022.
Combined with broad financial support from the Canadian, UK, and US governments, the funding round will support General Fusion’s “aggressive pursuit” of several near-term initiatives and milestones in its programme to commercialise magnetised target fusion (MTF).
In December 2019 General Fusion said it had secured more than USD100m of financing for its fusion programme. This was followed in July 2020 by additional financing led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and the deep technology fund IBX.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 04 December 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/jeff-bezos-joins-latest-round-of-major-investors-in-canadian-reactor-developer-12-5-2021
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