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Bulgaria Is Launching the Construction of 2 US-Designed Nuclear Reactors

Bulgaria on Wednesday decided to expand the country's nuclear power generation as an alternative to fossil fuels by launching the construction of two additi…

Nuclear Reactor

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 …

Ultra-Supercritical Unit

Nuclear Units Generate 25PC of Global Clean Electricity: Report

Globally, the world's nuclear reactors generated more than 2500 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity for the sixth year running. Nuclear generation supplies …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

China Approves Six Nuclear Reactors at $17 Billion Investment

China’s State Council approved six new nuclear reactors as it continues to expand the world’s biggest pipeline of new atomic energy projects.Two uni…

Nuclear Technology

INL Demonstrates ‘Microgrid in a Box'

The self-contained system, developed by engineers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in collaboration with industry and government, enables multiple energy sour…

Nuclear Reactor

Britain Opens Small Nuclear Reactor Competition, Launches New Nuclear Body

Britain on Tuesday opened a competition to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), such as those being developed by Rolls-Royce (RR.L), as it launched it…

SMR

IAEA sees progress made by SMR deployment initiative

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last year launched a new initiative aimed at accelerating the safe and secure deployment of advanced nuclear react…

Nuclear Equipment

Rosatom Commissions the Creation of Aluminium Robots to Be Used in Nuclear Reactors

Rosatom encouraged the Special Design & Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics to create an amphibious robot that can work in emergency situations at nuclear …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Japan Enacts Law for Operating Nuclear Reactors Beyond 60-Yr Limit

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese parliament on Wednesday passed a bill that allows nuclear reactors in the country to be operated beyond the current limit of 60 ye…

Nuclear Reactor

China Suspends Plan to Build Floating Nuclear Reactors in the South China Sea

Final approval has been withheld for a mega platform intended to power remote islands and infrastructure in the regionAfter 10 years in development, ‘safe…

Nuclear Technology

New 3D Printer Will Benefit Nuclear Industry, Says Rosatom

The largest 3D printer of its type in Russia has been unveiled by Rusatom - Additive Technologies (RusAT), with claims it will "allow printing of large-sized pa…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Doosan Begins Production of Key Components for Shin Hanul

Doosan Enerbility's factory in Changwon in South Korea has marked the start of production of key components for units 3&4 of the Shin Hanul NPP. Constructio…

SMR

SMR Shows Promise for Campus Use, Study Finds

An ongoing study of the feasibility of using advanced nuclear reactors to power Purdue University's West Lafayette campus in Indiana has found small modular…

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 Technology

Video Game Tech Could Be a Game-Changer for the Nuclear Workforce

Nuclear experts like Virginia Tech professor Alireza Haghighat have noted the biggest challenge to building new nuclear in the U.S. is workforce training at all…