Nuclear power

Nuclear Reactor

Detecting Neutrinos From Nuclear Reactors With Water

The SNO+ detector 2 kilometers deep in a mine in Ontario, Canada. The image shows the ropes that hold the 12 m-diameter acrylic vessel filled with 1,000 tons of…

Nuclear Reactor

Novel Solution Developed for Removal of Unterweser Reactor Vessel

The reactor pressure vessel has been removed from the reactor pit of the shut down Unterweser nuclear power plant in Germany using a solution developed by Dutch…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Berkeley Decommissioning Work Brought Forward 50 Years

Five decades earlier than planned, Magnox is embarking on the decommissioning project to clean-up and demolish the four 'blower house' structures which …

Nuclear Equipment

Framatome Awarded Ringhals Modernisation Contracts

Framatome has been awarded contracts by Sweden's Vattenfall to update reactor control systems using its digital instrumentation and control (I&C) TELEPERM X…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft to Buy Power From Helion Fusion Plant

Global technology company Microsoft has signed an agreement with fusion energy developer Helion Energy for the provision of electricity from its first fusion po…

SMR

Dow’s Seadrift Site Selected for X-Energy SMR Project

Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project with X-Energy Reactor Com…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft Agrees to Buy Power From a Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Fusion Startup That’s Yet to Produce Any Electricity

David Paul Morris—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft is making a bold bet that it can get power from nuclear fusion in half a decade’s time.More from Fo…

Nuclear Fuel

NRC Issues License for Holtec’s New Mexico Consolidated Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Holtec International a license to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for spent…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

EDF’s French Nuclear Output up Nearly 15% In April

EDF publishes 2022 annual resultsPARIS (Reuters) - Nuclear power generation at EDF's French reactors in April rose 14.7% year on year to 25.0 terawatt hours…

Nuclear Technology

Augmented Reality Enhances Radiation Protection Training

A method using augmented reality (AR) to create accurate visual representations of ionising radiation, developed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge …

Nuclear Technology

High Support for Advanced Nuclear Worldwide, Survey Finds

There is widespread public support for advanced nuclear energy technologies, according to a new, multinational survey of attitudes toward nuclear energy. The re…

Spent Fuel (Used Fuel)

NRC Gives Approval for Holtec’s New Mexico Used Fuel Facility

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final licence to Holtec International to build and operate the Hi-STORE consolidated interim storage f…

SMR

Korea Considers Deployment of Nuscale SMR for Hydrogen Production

Private power generation company GS Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Uljin County in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, to consid…

Nuclear Fusion

Microsoft Has Deal to Buy Fusion Power from Helion

Software giant Microsoft on May 10 announced it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy to buy electricity from He…

Nuclear waste

IAEA Commends Sweden’s Management of Radioactive Waste

Sweden demonstrates a solid commitment to ensuring the safe implementation of nuclear radioactive waste and used fuel management activities, including its effor…