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28/01/2025
The USA's Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an updated mission statement, with its new Chairman David Wright saying it "should position itself to be a part of the solution".
BWX Technologies Inc has been awarded contracts to manufacture the reactor pressure vessel for the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor to be constructed at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site and 48 steam generators for the Pickering life extension programme.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has conducted a legislative assistance mission, organised in cooperation with Estonia's Ministry of Climate, as it assists the Baltic country in developing a new nuclear law to support the introduction of nuclear energy.
Advanced nuclear fuel company Lightbridge and nuclear power plant developer Oklo have signed a memorandum of understanding for a feasibility study into co-locating their planned fuel fabrication facilities and to explore potential for collaboration in recycling nuclear waste.
EDF Energy said the performance of its UK nuclear power plants in 2024 was "very good", with an output of 37.3 TWh - a level it aims to maintain over the coming years. Meanwhile, a new report has highlighted the contribution that nuclear energy has made to economic growth in the UK.
GoviEx Uranium is forecasting production from the Muntanga project in in Zambia in 2028, and envisages a quick start-up from shallow open-pit mining operations.
Uranium production at the Inkai operation in Kazakhstan was suspended on 1 January but has now resumed, the joint venture partners Kazatomprom and Cameco have announced.
French microreactor developer Naarea is to collaborate with Phoenix Manufacture - a company specialising in the industrialisation of complex devices - to work towards the mass production of Naarea's XAMR molten salt fast microreactor.
Sweden's Alleima announced it has been awarded a second order from South Korea's Doosan Enerbility for approximately 200 kilometres of steam generator tubes for NuScale Power's small modular reactors.
The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of in a geological disposal facility. The inventory arose from the reprocessing of used fuel undertaken over many decades.
Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Lukáš Vlček said he had discussed with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power CEO Hwang Joo-ho about finalising the EPC contract and the involvement of Czech companies in the country's new nuclear project.
Ontario Power Generation has awarded a contract for works associated with the refurbishment of four units at its Pickering plant to a joint venture of AtkinsRéalis company Candu Energy Inc and Aecon Group Inc.
The first unit at Russia's Rostov nuclear power plant was launched in 2001 and its operating licence is due to expire in 2030. A large-scale work programme has been approved as part of plans for a 30-year life extension.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to limit legal challenges to major infrastructure projects - including nuclear power plants - to just one hearing in court instead of the current three hearings.
Blasting work 45 metres below ground has begun, marking the start of the expansion of Sweden's existing SFR final repository for low and intermediate-level waste at Forsmark. The extension - expected to take six years to complete - will triple the capacity of the repository.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's collaborative contractors Bechtel, Sargent & Lundy and GE Hitachi will use an integrated approach as they carry out initial planning for a potential small modular reactor at Clinch River in Tennessee.
The SMART tokamak - an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory of the University of Seville, Spain - has generated its first plasma.
The third cycle of tests of MOX fuel in Russia's MIR research reactor is to begin following the successful completion of the second phase of the programme which aims to substantiate the safety of MOX fuel for use in VVER-type reactors.
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