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X-Energy to Develop Second Project Pele Microreactor Design

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC to develop an enhanced engineering design for a transportable microreactor sui…

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Rwanda Will Host a Company's 1st Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Testing Carbon-Free Energy Approach

Rwanda's atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the compan…

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BWXT to Evaluate Microreactor Deployment in Wyoming

BWX Technologies Inc has been contracted by the Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA) to assess the viability of deploying microreactors in the state. The value of the…

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Rosatom Develops a Promising Project for Power Supply of Sovinoye Gold Deposit Based on the Advanced Small Nuclear Reactor Technology Shelf-M

The mining division of ROSATOM – Atomredmetzoloto JSC (ARMZ JSC) and RAOS JSC (ROSATOM’s organization acting as the sectoral integrator for small nu…

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Westinghouse VVER-440 Fuel Loaded Into Reactor

Westinghouse fuel has been loaded into a VVER-440 reactor for the first time, at Ukraine's Rivne nuclear power plant.A ceremony was held to mark the occasio…

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Instance Architects Plans Europe's First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Plant

SMR Campus concept visuals - sea view Source: Instance/MITAnglo-Dutch practice Instance Architects is drawing up plans for Europe's first Small Modular Reac…

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Bangor University to Develop Tiny Nuclear Fuel for Future Moon Bases

Under a UK Space Agency contract, Bangor University in Wales is developing a new nuclear fuel for the Rolls-Royce micro reactors that will power future crewed l…

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A New Age for US Nuclear

With the commissioning of Vogtle Unit 3, the USA has completed its first new reactor in decades. Featuring a Gen III+ reactor, completion of the project is a br…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Over 200 Global Nuclear Experts Visit World's First Onshore Small Modular Reactor in China

The small modular reactor Linglong-1. /China National Nuclear CorporationOver 200 nuclear experts from more than 50 countries and regions on Tuesday visited Lin…

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Iran Unveils Home-Grown Reactor Simulator

Iran's nuclear professionals are now able to train using a fully Iranian-designed and built reactor simulator.The simulator was unveiled in the presence of …

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Containment Vessel Takes Shape at Sanmen 4

The CV1R module - the largest and heaviest module among the six major components of the steel containment vessel - has been hoisted into place at unit 4 of the …

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Fourth New Reactor Shows Record Pace of Production, Says Rosatom

The 340-tonne reactor vessel for the second unit at Kursk II is being shipped by AEM-Technology JSC, marking what Russia's nuclear corporation Rosatom says …

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BWXT Announces Haleu Contract

BWX Technologies, Inc is to process thousands of kilograms of US government-owned scrap material containing enriched uranium to produce high-assay low enriched …

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Defuelling Completed at Mühleberg

All the nuclear fuel at the shut down Mühleberg nuclear power plant has now been transported to the Zwilag interim storage facility in Würenlingen, Sw…

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EDF and Javys Sign Cooperation Agreement

EDF and JAVYS have signed a framework cooperation agreement covering new nuclear in Slovakia, including both large nuclear power plants and small modular reacto…