Partnership to develop pumps for Swedish SMR design
Monday, 13 January 2025 The SEALER reactor (Image: Blykalla) Under the collaboration, Blykalla and KSB will design, develop, and manufacture pumps capable of operating in liquid lead environments. “Pumps are…
Chernobyl gets go-ahead for solid radioactive waste processing
Monday, 13 January 2025 (Image: Chernobyl NPP) The inspectorate’s decision came in the form of an amendment to the site’s licence, granting the right to conduct activities relating to the processing…
UK consortium advances fusion-grade steel production
Friday, 10 January 2025 NEURONE project billet leaving the caster and entering the product straightener (Image: MPI) The NEURONE (Neutron Irradiation of Advanced Steels) consortium is a GBP12 million (USD15…
Viewpoint: Joint EDF-CNNC book is new chapter in bilateral links
Friday, 10 January 2025 (Image:: EDF and CNNC) Firstly, what is the book? The Blue Book is a collaborative work between the Chinese nuclear company CNNC and the French…
Northern Sea Route cargo set new record in 2024
Friday, 10 January 2025 (Image: Rosatom) The recently ended year also saw a record number of transit voyages – 92 – which helped set a record of 3 million tonnes…
Lawsuit challenges NRC on SMR regulation
Friday, 10 January 2025 A rendering of the Llynfi Clean Energy Project in Wales, one of Last Energy’s proposed projects outside the USA (Image: Last Energy) Under the US Nuclear…
Naarea and QGEMS form strategic partnership
Friday, 10 January 2025 A conceptual illustration of Naarea’s proposed XAMR (Image: Naarea) In addition, Naarea said using QGEMS’ advanced energy management system would extend the applications of its reactor…
Dutch consortium to develop molten salt reactors
Thursday, 9 January 2025 How the Thorizon One plant could look (Image: Thorizon) The partnership between Demcon, Thorizon and VDL Group was formalised in October last year during a visit…
Brazil to get nuclear physical security training centre
Thursday, 9 January 2025 How the new training centre might look (Image: CNEN) The Nuclear Physical Security Training Centre will be housed at the Institute of Nuclear Engineering (Portuguese: Instituto de…
Westinghouse CEO Patrick Fragman to step down
Thursday, 9 January 2025 Fragman, pictured during a panel discussion at World Nuclear Symposium in 2022 (Image: World Nuclear Association) The company said that Fragman intends to spend more time…
