Moltex requests pre-licensing consultation for recycling process
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 Moltex’s vision features WATSS and SSR-W plants on the same site (Image: Moltex) The innovative process – short for Waste to Stable Salt – extracts valuable…
Westinghouse’s LEU+ fuel loaded into Vogtle 2
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 The delivery of LEU+ fuel to Vogtle (Image: Southern Nuclear) Commercial reactors currently operate on fuel that typically contains 3-5% by weight of uranium-235 – the main…
Kazatomprom signs uranium supply deal with ČEZ
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 The official signing ceremony took place in Prague (Image: Kazatomprom) The deal will supply about a third of the uranium needs for the Westinghouse fuel assemblies…
Assembly of Lufeng 1 containment vessel starts
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 (Image: CNI22) The bottom head – measuring nearly 40 metres in diameter, 11.5 metres in height and weighing more than 800 tonnes – was hoisted into…
UK regulator highlights international collaboration on SMRs
Monday, 14 April 2025 A two-unit plant based on Holtec’s SMR-300, which is progressing through the UK’s GDA process (Image: Holtec) Among the key achievements the Office for Nuclear Regulation…
First uranium product shipped from Dobrovolnoye deposit
Monday, 14 April 2025 (Image: Rosatom) Dinis Ezhurov, Director General of JSC Dalur, said: “The technological building has been launched into operation according to the full technological cycle and the first…
US Department of Defense selects eight potential microreactor suppliers
Monday, 14 April 2025 A rendering of Radiant’s Kaleidos microreactor (Image: Ryan Seper/Radiant) The eight companies who can now receive Other Transaction awards under the programme are: Antares Nuclear, Inc…
Partnership to develop nuclear power for shipping
Monday, 14 April 2025 (Left to right) Mark Ho, Chief Nuclear Officer, Deployable Energy; Stuart Ballantyne, Chairman, Seatransport Corporation; Claudene Sharp Patel, Global Technical Director, LR; and Remko Hottentot, Commercial…
Tripling nuclear brings challenges for nuclear transport
Monday, 14 April 2025 L-R: Kargopolov, Presta, Hinz, McMahon and Supko (Image: World Nuclear Association/Sonia Bourdon) Transport has always faced challenges with too few ports and carriers willing to accept…
Suppliers shortlisted for Kazakh nuclear power plant
Friday, 11 April 2025 (Image: Gordon Johnson / Pixabay) “The shortlist of potential suppliers of reactor technologies has been formed,” Interfax reported, citing a statement from the Kazakh Atomic Energy…
