Contract signed for generic Polish BWRX-300 design
The Poland Generic Design Agreement was signed during a ceremony on Tuesday at the US Department of Energy in Washington DC. Participants included US Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly,…
Urenco to supply fuel for Deep Fission reactors
The low-enriched uranium (LEU) will be sourced from Urenco USA’s enrichment facility in Eunice, New Mexico, and meets all regulatory requirements for use in the USA, California-based Deep Fission noted.…
Philippines streamlines licensing for nuclear projects
The Department of Energy (DOE) said the streamlined end-to-end licensing framework was formulated during a Focus Group Discussion on Harmonising Nuclear Power Plant Licensing in the Philippines held on 11…
Orano submits environmental report for Project IKE
The Environmental Report (ER) provides an in-depth assessment of potential environmental impacts and demonstrates Orano’s commitment to environmental protection, public health and safety, transparency, and regulatory compliance. “The submission represents…
Contract for Sellafield plutonium storage containers
In January last year, the UK government took the decision that the country’s stockpile of civil plutonium would be disposed of, rather than used to produce mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for…
Partners discuss licensing for Brazil’s phosphate-uranium project
Tomás Albuquerque, President of Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), met with the Governor of Ceará, Elmano de Freitas, as well as Marlos Costa, President of Brazilian Nuclear Energy Holdings Company…
Kairos, DOE enhance collaboration on advanced reactor design
Under the partnership, over the next five years Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will provide expertise and access to specialised facilities to review and evaluate various aspects of Kairos Power’s…
Reactor vessel installed at Lufeng 6
“At 08:07 (local time) on 21 February, the reactor pressure vessel of unit 6 of Lufeng nuclear power plant officially began hoisting operations and was precisely positioned on the heavy-duty trolley at…
Serbia and Russia discuss nuclear energy cooperation
The minister was speaking after talks – see picture above – with Alexei Likhachev, Director General of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, about cooperation between the two countries in the…
Canada to offer training as part of IAEA Rays of Hope initiative
James Scongack, Chair of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC), and IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi – see picture above – discussed the proposed contributions in a meeting in Vienna…
