Westinghouse Awarded £10m From UK Government AMR Project Westinghouse Electric Company announced their Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) programme has successfully progressed to Phase 2 of the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) Feasibility and Development project, receiving £10m (€ 11.1 m) in funding from the BEIS Energy…
PSI Aim at Extending Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physic With the high-intensity proton accelerator HIPA, the Paul Scherrer Institute generates elementary particles to clarify a fundamental question: How is our universe structured? With the help of pions, muons, and neutrons, the PSI researchers are conducting experiments to find out how the well established yet…
Take this opportunity – additional Call for Papers The Programme Committee of the European Research Reactor Conference would like to offer all members of the research reactor community the possibility to present projects and share knowledge in 2020. It therefore opens a short Call for Papers and invites authors to submit abstracts until 28 August…
Generation IV – IAEA and GIF Call for Faster Deployment The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), an initiative involving 13 countries focused on next-generation nuclear power technologies, called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change. The appeal came during the…
New fuel test started in HFR Petten This month a new irradiation experiment on the behavior of nuclear fuel has started in the High Flux Reactor in Petten. With the new measurement technique, data is collected on the fissile material which can be used to develop new fuels and to optimize the efficiency of existing…
Russia Produced the First Full Batch of MOX Fuel for BN-800 Fast Reactor The Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region (East Siberia) has manufactured the first full reload batch of fresh uranium-plutonium MOX fuel for BN-800 fast reactor, operated at Beloyarsk NPP. The 169 fuel assemblies have been accepted by Rosenergoatom, the operator…
Rosatom’s Cyclotron for Development of Nuclear Medicine and Research On July 15-17, 2020 JSC Efremov NIIEFA (Saint-Petersburg), shipped off the equipment, which is part of an isochronous cyclotron СС-30/15. Nine containers of total weight 120 tons were sent to Thailand, where JSC Rusatom Health Care and Kinetics Corporation Ltd. carry out the construction of the…
MYRRHA Project Achieves an Important Development Milestone The MYRRHA project has achieved a development milestone after researchers at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) succeeded for the first time in accelerating a proton beam through the recently connected radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ). The RFQ is a component of the particle accelerator that will drive the…
ITER Project Starts Its Five-Year Assembly The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday, 28th July 2020. Assembly in Cadarache is expected to be over in late 2025. The €20bn ITER project will replicate the reactions that power the sun and is intended to…
Framatome I&C System as Nuclear Plant Modernization Solution French nuclear company Framatome and Lockheed Martin have signed a teaming agreement that will integrate Lockheed Martin’s Discrete Logic Solving System (DLSS) into proven Framatome instrumentation and control (I&C) nuclear plant modernization solutions. This solution combines the companies’ technologies and supports the safety and reliability of nuclear…