BWXT launches advanced nuclear fuel subsidiary

“BWXT Advanced Fuels focuses on ensuring the availability of BWXT-manufactured nuclear fuel on a commercial scale by leveraging its more than 20 years of experience manufacturing TRISO fuel at its…

Podcast Interviews: Amentum’s Andy White, plus GLE’s Nima Ashkeboussi

Topics covered by White, senior vice president of Energy and Environment International at Amentum, include: * The change of attitudes which means that the future decommissioning process is included in the…

First female captain for a nuclear-powered icebreaker

Starovoitova’s career change came after friends told her there were jobs on a ship at the Mumansk Shipping Company, where she started as an orderly on the nuclear container ship Sevmorput.…

Bruce 6 to get new isotope production system

Federal Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson (pictured above fourth from right) visited the site to announce the installation of an Isotope Production System in unit 6, which…

Blykalla and Research Institutes of Sweden partner on SMRs

The agreement is to promote the technical development of Blykalla’s lead-cooled reactor concept through applied research, prototype testing and joint business development. It aims to “raise the technology readiness levels of…

Steam generator marks milestone for Indian fleet construction

The completion of this major component was hailed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) as a “significant step” for India’s nuclear expansion. “Manufactured and dispatched seven months ahead…

Aalo Atomics secures funding to build its first reactor

Austin, Texas-based Aalo was named recently by the US Department of Energy as one of 11 advanced reactor projects initially selected for support through its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which…

Companies join forces for possible US HALEU project

The non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) contemplates Quantum Leap Energy and Fermi America forming a joint venture for the research and development, and then the construction, of an advanced nuclear…

Assessment of Asse storage chamber conditions begins

Between 1967 and 1978, thousands of barrels of mostly low-level radioactive waste were emplaced in a total of 13 former mining chambers at the Asse II mine on behalf of…

CORE Energy secures strategic investment

The INR200 crore (USD22.86 million – one crore is 10 million) investment was led by Indian investors Pankaj Prasoon, Ashish Kacholia, and “a consortium of like-minded investors aligned with India’s…