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Nuclear Fusion

New Body to Deliver UK’s Fusion Ambitions

STEP building cutaway. Image: UKAEAThe UK government has announced UK Industrial Fusion Solutions as the new body to deliver the country’s fusion programm…

Nuclear Reactor

Fusion Progress in Russia

The GI Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP SB RAS) has succeeded in increasing the plasma density…

Nuclear Technology

Tokamak Completes Set of HTS Magnets

Tokamak Energy of the UK announced it has built a world-first set of new generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to be assembled and tested in…

Nuclear Reactor

Unit 3 of Slovakia’s Mochovce Nuclear Plant Connected to the Grid

Slovakia’s power utility Slovenské elektrárne (SE) has connected to the grid the 440 MW Unit 3 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant. The 1.9 …

Nuclear Reactor

Tritium: Ultra-Rare Fusion Fuel We Can’t Make Nearly Enough Of

After the National Ignition Facility in California's first successful scientific breakeven through nuclear fusion, mankind is all the more serious about rea…

Energy Technology

Containment Building Completed at Zhangzhou 1

Construction has been completed of the outer dome of the containment building of unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province, Chi…

Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE Announces New Funding for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $2.3 million in funding for 10 projects that will pair private industry with DOE's National Laboratories t…

Nuclear Technology

General Fusion’s UK demo gets go ahead

Canada-based General Fusion has been granted permission to construct a demonstration of its fusion technology at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) …

Nuclear Technology

ITER to Replace 23KM of Cooling Pipes on Thermal Shield Panels

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project has given a progress update on tackling the defects discovered last year in the therm…

Nuclear Technology

UK Fusion Firm Tokamak Signs Superconducting Tape Agreement With Furukawa

Tokamak Energy has signed an agreement with Japan's Furukawa Electric to supply "several hundred kilometres" of specialist high temperature superconducting …

Nuclear Technology

IAEA Launches Research Reactor HR Modelling Tool

A new training tool from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)provides modelling to develop the skilled workforce needed for new research reactor progra…

Nuclear Reactor

Chinese Tokamak Achieves Super I-Mode

A new mode of improved plasma confinement has been demonstrated at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Sc…

Nuclear Technology

Further Cost Refinements Announced for First Us SMR Plant

The approval of a new budgetary plan and an updated agreement on cost reimbursements for the USA's first power plant based on NuScale's small modular re…

Nuclear Technology

Cooling 100 Million Degree Plasma With a Hydrogen-Neon Mixture Ice Pellet

Plasmoid behavior of pure hydrogen and hydrogen mixed with 5 % neon. In this experiment, a new Thomson Scattering (TS) diagnostic system operating at (an unprec…