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Published: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:09:58 GMT
South Australia's Flinders University has signed agreements with universities in the USA and UK that will enable the Australian university to begin developing the specialist skills needed to underpin the future construction of nuclear submarines under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership.
Published: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:32:53 GMT
ARC Clean Technology Canada, Inc has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Alberta's Invest Alberta Corporation to jointly pursue activities to support commercialisation of ARC's ARC-100 small modular reactor technology in the province.
Published: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:28:13 GMT
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched the Global Water Analysis Laboratory Network to help countries generate their own chemical, biological and isotopic water data and develop tailored water management strategies.
Published: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:28:17 GMT
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority, Ontario Power Generation and Synthos Green Energy have agreed to work together to advance the global deployment of the GEH BWRX-300 small modular reactor through collaboration on development of a standard design.
Published: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:28:44 GMT
Uniper Nuclear Services - a subsidiary of Germany's Uniper Group - has been contracted by Swiss utility BKW to dismantle, disassemble and package the two moisture separator reheaters at the Mühleberg nuclear power plant in Switzerland.
Published: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:22:26 GMT
US micro reactor developer Last Energy has announced power purchase agreements for 34 units of its plants with four industrial partners across Poland and the UK. Meanwhile, Finland's Fortum is collaborating with Outokumpu to explore the use of small modular reactors to power its steel manufacturing operations.
Published: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:16:50 GMT
Waiting until the mid-2030s to deploy advanced nuclear at scale in the USA could lead to missing decarbonisation targets as well as having serious supply chain implications, according to a newly released report from the US Department of Energy's Pathways to Commercial Liftoff programme.
Published: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:54:31 GMT
The new port facility constructed at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant being built in Egypt has received its first large-scale item - the core catcher, or melt trap - delivered from Russia.
Published: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:40:05 GMT
A collaboration agreement has been signed between Japan's Kyoto Fusioneering and the UK Atomic Energy Authority to develop fusion related technologies. The first project under the collaboration will be the development of a 'fusion-grade' silicon carbide composite system.
Published: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:05:35 GMT
The first concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 4 at the Sanmen nuclear power plant, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. It marks the official start of construction of the second of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors planned as Phase II of the site in China's Zhejiang province.