PULSAR consortium designs nuclear power system for lunar missions
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 (Image: Tractebel) The project – announced in June 2022 – is being funded by the European Commission’s Euratom Research and Training Programme, and is in addition…
Canada, Poland sign nuclear energy cooperation agreement
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) and Prime Minister Donald Tusk (right) after signing the agreement (Image: Government of Poland) Signed also by Polish Prime Minister Donald…
IAEA assists Estonia in drawing up nuclear law
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 (Image: Estonian Ministry of Climate) The Estonian parliament – the Riigikogu – passed a resolution in June last year supporting the adoption of nuclear energy in…
EDF aims to maintain output of UK nuclear fleet in years ahead
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 The Sizewell B plant (Image: EDF Energy) EDF manages the UK’s eight nuclear power plant sites, five that are operating (Sizewell B, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham…
Lightbridge and Oklo aim to co-locate fuel fabrication facilities
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 (Image: Lightbridge/Oklo) Lightbridge Fuel is a proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for existing light water reactors and pressurised heavy water reactors. The company says the metallic…
US NRC adds ‘enabling’ focus to mission statement
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 NRC’s Maryland headquarters (Image: Michael Grizer/NRC) The new mission statement says: “The NRC protects public health and safety and advances the nation’s common defence and security…
Major contracts awarded for OPG SMR and life extension projects
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 Minister Stephen Lecce (centre) visited BWXT’s Cambridge facility for the announcement (Image: Stephen Lecce/X) The separate contracts are worth more than CAD1 billion (USD696 million) in…
Uranium production resumes at Inkai
Monday, 27 January 2025 Inkai: back in operation (Image: Kazatomprom) The Kazakh national atomic company announced in its Q4 operations and trading update: “As was announced on 2 January, JV…
Second NuScale SMR steam generator tube contract for Alleima
Monday, 27 January 2025 How a NuScale SMR plant could look (Image: NuScale) In June 2023, Alleima was awarded a similar order by Doosan Enerbility for steam generator tubes for…
Phoenix Manufacture to help industrialise XAMR
Monday, 27 January 2025 (Image: Naarea) The aim of this partnership is to structure the industrialisation of the XAMR, integrating the key phases of the project: design, prototyping, first-of-a-kind (FOAK)…
