DOE, NRC collaborate on advanced reactor deployment
17 oktober 2019
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the US Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to share technical expertise and computing resources to accelerate the deployment of advanced nuclear technologies.
Experts assessing the safety of a nuclear power plant (NPP) with multiple reactors must look at the site from a bird’s eye view, carefully considering how an accident damaging one element of a plant could impact the entire site. IAEA has developed a safety assessment methodology.
The IAEA is organizing an international student competition inviting secondary school students aged between 14-18 to design and develop an original project on the use of digital technologies to support education in nuclear technology and its role in addressing climate change.
Since 2009, Mali's authorities have been collecting disused sealed radioactive sources from around the country for safe storage in the capital, Bamako, with the support of the IAEA.
Franco-German nuclear equipment consortium Framatome-Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply the main instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant to be built in northern Finland, project owner Fennovoima said.
The IAEA will now have access to a new container for the transport of disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS), thanks to a contribution from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA).
The Australian Workers Union has told a federal government roundtable event that it supports the lifting of the country's ban on nuclear energy. The union is nation's oldest and largest 'blue-collar' trade union, having more than 100,000 members.
Lightbridge Corporation and Enfission, LLC have demonstrated the manufacturing process and fabrication of Lightbridge Fuel surrogate rods in a length that could be usable in NuScale Power's small modular reactors.
Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva announced it has laid the foundation stone for the encapsulation plant at its planned final deep geologic disposal facility at Olkiluoto, southwest Finland.
According to Posiva's president and chief executive Janne Mokka, the event is an “important st
In-service steam generators affected by non-compliance in a stress-relieving heat-treatment process are safe to continue in use, French utility EDF said today. Investigations into the deviation at Framatome's Saint-Marcel site are ongoing.
The first quantum revolution resulted in the development of the personal computer, lasers, LED lighting, even GPS and the Internet. Scientists are now developing new techniques for quantum technologies using tools like ion beam accelerators to help usher in the second quantum revolution.
Nuclear and renewable generation should be used in combination to make the most of their synergies in integrated systems to help the world meet carbon reduction goals and limit temperature rise, leaders from governmental and non-governmental organisations and industry said yesterday. Innovative nucl
A full set of dummy fuel assemblies has been loaded into unit 2 of the Leningrad II nuclear power plant under construction in western Russia. The equipment, which replicates the design of standard fuel assemblies by the weight, size and materials of which they are made, but without nuclear fuel, is
Unit 2 of the Taishan nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province has entered commercial operation, becoming the second EPR reactor to do so. The milestone was achieved on 7 September, following statutory functional testing of continuous operation at full power for 168 hours, which started on
Russia’s nuclear fuel company Tvel and the Centre for Energy Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have signed a contract for the supply of Russian nuclear fuel for the Budapest research reactor.
Tvel did not say how much the long-term contract was worth, but said it is for fuel supplies s
China’s top nuclear safety official has condemned the US blacklisting of Chinese nuclear companies, but warned that ultimately the move could harm US companies.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Liu Hua, head of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, said US multilater
Experts assessing the safety of a nuclear power plant (NPP) with multiple reactors must look at the site from a bird’s eye view, carefully considering how an accident damaging one element of a plant could impact the entire site. IAEA has developed a safety assessment methodology.
The IAEA is organizing an international student competition inviting secondary school students aged between 14-18 to design and develop an original project on the use of digital technologies to support education in nuclear technology and its role in addressing climate change.