Australia agrees to export uranium to India
The announcement came during an official visit by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Australia. “The arrangement facilitates Australian uranium exports to India to help increase the share of non-fossil…
Reactor vessel installed in El Dabaa’s second unit
The milestone moment comes seven months after the reactor pressure vessel was installed in the first unit – which Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev said reflected the accelerated pace of…
Trilateral cooperation agreement on SMR deployment
The memorandum was signed on Tuesday on the margins of the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, and South…
Deep Fission receives prototype reactor canister
Deep Fission said the arrival of the canister “marks a key milestone in the company’s proof-of-concept well programme and its Gravity Nuclear Reactor development … the factory-built prototype canister completed…
Brazil establishes new uranium-focused working group
The new group established by the council (the Conselho Nacional de Política Mineral) has been given 90 days to “assess the current state of mapping and knowledge about uranium mineral resources…
Dukovany project on schedule, says Czech ministry’s progress report
In the department’s update on progress in the year since the contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) was signed for two new nuclear units near the Dukovany Nuclear…
Ampera makes 3D-printed microreactor module
Ampera is developing subcritical thorium-based microreactor systems that are energy dense and do not require refuelling. Through its proprietary tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel platform, neutron-source technology and advanced additive manufacturing,…
Agreement could see prototype microreactor built at Berkeley
In September last year, a planning application was submitted for a new nuclear energy-focused facility on a brownfield site that was once part of the Berkeley nuclear power plant in…
Skanska contracted for Swedish repository expansion work
The SFR repository is situated 60 metres below the bottom of the Baltic Sea and began operations in 1988. The facility comprises four 160-metre-long rock vaults and a chamber in…
Control room simulator launched for lead-cooled BREST-OD-300 reactor
The simulator – see picture above – is in the Educational, Training and Information Centre of the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, Tomsk Oblast in Russia. The new unit The…
