Partners discuss licensing for Brazil’s phosphate-uranium project
Tomás Albuquerque, President of Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), met with the Governor of Ceará, Elmano de Freitas, as well as Marlos Costa, President of Brazilian Nuclear Energy Holdings Company…
Kairos, DOE enhance collaboration on advanced reactor design
Under the partnership, over the next five years Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will provide expertise and access to specialised facilities to review and evaluate various aspects of Kairos Power’s…
Reactor vessel installed at Lufeng 6
“At 08:07 (local time) on 21 February, the reactor pressure vessel of unit 6 of Lufeng nuclear power plant officially began hoisting operations and was precisely positioned on the heavy-duty trolley at…
Serbia and Russia discuss nuclear energy cooperation
The minister was speaking after talks – see picture above – with Alexei Likhachev, Director General of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, about cooperation between the two countries in the…
Canada to offer training as part of IAEA Rays of Hope initiative
James Scongack, Chair of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC), and IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi – see picture above – discussed the proposed contributions in a meeting in Vienna…
Environmental approval for Saskatchewan uranium project
The Saskatchewan Minister of Environment the company’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the shallow, high grade Patterson Lake South (PLS) project on 18 February. The approval follows technical acceptance of…
TerraPower’s Natrium reactor enters UK GDA process
TerraPower submitted its Generic Design Assessment (GDA) application in October, the first regulatory filing for Natrium technology in a market outside the USA. Chris Levesque, President and CEO of Terrapower,…
Illinois governor aims to speed up nuclear new-build
Eleven nuclear reactors currently supply more than half of Illinois’ electricity. Energy legislation passed by Illinois lawmakers and signed by Pritzker in 2021 ensured the continued operation of the state’s…
Urenco installs innovative heat network at Dutch site
The company said an internal heat network will provide a contained, thermal energy distribution system, taking residual heat from the cooling of its uranium cylinders. Hot water will be generated…
Copenhagen Atomics secures thorium supply from Norway
Copenhagen Atomics is developing a containerised molten salt reactor. Moderated with unpressurised heavy water, the reactor consumes nuclear waste while breeding new fuel from thorium. Small enough to allow for…
