2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (268+ words) The trial supports Rosatom's development of a closed nuclear fuel cycle that reuses spent fuel materials and improves reactor safety and efficiency. Three innovative fuel cassettes have been loaded into the VVER-1000 reactor at unit 1 of Russia's Balakovo NPP. Each…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (870+ words) ARC-100 eyes Turkish deployment'Nuclear Engineering International Canada-based ARC Clean Technology has signed a term sheet with IC Nuclear & Industry (ICN), a member of IC Holding, to establish the commercial framework for deployment of its ARC-100 in T'rkiye and the wider…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (500+ words) The IAEA's latest SMR catalogue gives an up to date snap shot of progress on this promising area of nuclear technology development and flags winners and losers in the race to commercial deployment. By Judith Perera The catalogue was developed…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (556+ words) The technology development and design of PFBR, a sodium-cooled fast reactor, was indigenously done by the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), an R&D Centre of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). It was built & commissioned by Bharatiya…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (237+ words) Lianjiang 2 reactor installed'Nuclear Engineering International The pressure reactor vessel has been installed at unit 2 of China's Lianjiang NPP in Guangdong province " one of two CAP-1000 reactors planned for the first phase of the plant. State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) said…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (447+ words) NRC proposes streamlined reactor reviews'Nuclear Engineering International Section 5 of the EO, Reforming and Modernizing the NRC's Regulations, requires NRC to undertake a review and wholesale revision of its regulations and guidance documents. It also requires the NRC to establish an…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (363+ words) The US DOE's watchdog has urged stronger risk management for future demonstration programmes. According to the US Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (DOE-OIG), the Department of Energy (DOE) could improve its oversight of demonstration and deployment projects. The…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (259+ words) Tepco begins latest Fukushima water discharge'Nuclear Engineering International Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has begun the 19th discharge to the sea of treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi NPP since the operation began in August 2023. The discharge, set to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (289+ words) Akkuyu 2 installs passive safety tanks'Nuclear Engineering International Eight hydraulic tanks of the passive core filling system (SPZAZ) have been installed in the reactor building of unit 2 at the Akkuyu NPP being constructed in T'rkiye by Rosatom. The tanks are part…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (301+ words) The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) has submitted a Construction Permit Application (CPA) to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for US-based start-up NANO Nuclear's KRONOS MMR microreactor. The CPA was formally submitted by The Grainger College of Engineering…...