6+ hour, 43+ min ago   (306+ words) World Nuclear News The application follows an earlier one, submitted in May, for a six-unit project in Norrsundet in the Gävle municipality, which is also in the same region of east central Sweden Jacob Stedman, CEO of Blykalla, pictured above…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (315+ words) A commissioning ceremony for the full-scope simulator was held on Wednesday in the simulator's main control room. Gao Shunlong, chairman of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) subsidiary CNNC Wuhan Nuclear Power Operation Technology Co, which developed the simulator, said the…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago   (233+ words) In-house publication Strana Rosatom said the progress update had come from Director General Alexei Likhachev, who is also quoted as adding "the pace of progress is determined not only by us but also by the customers … we've signed an intergovernmental…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (189+ words) The test was completed at the Nevada National Security Site in the US, on Monday at 10:39 local time. It was carried out in partnership with the Los Alamos and Idaho National Laboratories at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center, a…...

5+ hour, 13+ min ago   (325+ words) World Nuclear News The US Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD) and Core Power (US) Inc announced their signature of a non-exclusive Memorandum of Cooperation to collaborate on maritime nuclear frameworks in Washington DC on Monday It follows a recent…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (376+ words) Citing the pledge signed by 38 countries across the world - together making up more than 70% of global GDP - to triple nuclear power by 2050, CEO Meirzhan Yussupov said nuclear energy had "transitioned from a policy debate on paper into operational execution". Kazatomprom's…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (509+ words) On Sunday it announced that unit 1 was being restarted and would be operating at nominal power from Sunday evening, before adding that unit 3 would operate at nominal power on Tuesday. The prime minister, in a briefing at the site on…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (388+ words) Each of the reactors weighs more than 147 tonnes, is 7.3 metres tall and 3.3 metres in diameter. Specialist lifting equipment was used to move them to their designated locations. They are pressurised water reactors with the steam generators built into the core…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (240+ words) World Nuclear News The International Atomic Energy Agency project description - Optimising the Design of Experiments for Fuels and Materials Testing in Research Reactors - says that "as global efforts intensify towards advanced nuclear systems, fusion energy, and next-generation reactor technologies, there…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (318+ words) World Nuclear News Zeno Power Systems' Survive-the-Night Package, including a 5 watts (thermal) americium-241 radioisotope heater unit (RHU), will be on board a Firefly mission scheduled to launch no earlier than 2028 The mission will demonstrate Zeno's technologies designed to enable spacecraft,…...