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Last Energy Sets up Microreactor Deals for Poland and the U.K.

A rendering of Last Energy's nuclear power plant. (Image: Last Energy)Startup company Last Energy has announced power purchase agreements for 34 units of it…

Nuclear waste

DOE Updates Savannah River Waste Agreement With EPA, DHEC

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) has finalized a high-level waste tank milestones agreement with state and federal regulators that wil…

Nuclear Technology

Wanted: Information Leading to a Neutron Source for Fusion Energy R&D

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science published a notice in the March 27 Federal Register calling for input on technological approaches to a Fusion…

Nuclear Reactor

UKAEA to Partner With the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) to co-operate …

Nuclear Technology

Cooking Up Plasmas With Microwaves

Lead author Yurii Victorovich Kovtun, despite being forced to evacuate the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology amid the current Russia-Ukraine war, has …

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA’s Grossi Visits Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) director general travelled to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to see first-hand the security situatio…

Nuclear waste

Sellafield AI Strategy ‘To Boost Safety and Speed up Site Remediation'

The UK's Sellafield nuclear facility has unveiled its AI (artificial intelligence) strategy intended to improve efficiency and safety, with the goal that by…

Nuclear Reactor

Final Fuel Transfer From Storage Basin at INL

Workers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have completed the transfer of all the used fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) from wet to dry st…

Nuclear Power Plant

Mo-99 Production Reaches Non-proliferation Milestone

All major global molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production facilities are now using low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets instead of proliferation-sensitive highly-enriched…

Nuclear Power Plant

Contract for Shin Hanul 3 and 4 Major Components Signed

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Doosan Enerability have signed a KRW2.9 trillion (USD2.3 billion) contract for the supply of the main equipment for units…

Uranium Project

Cameco Wins $220M Tax Refund, Seeks Hundreds of Millions More

A large refund shows light at the end of the tunnel for a tax dispute. Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine, Saskatchewan. Source: CamecoCameco (TSX: CCO; NYS…

Nuclear Reactor

ARC Clean Technology Signs Agreement on Deployment of SMRs in Alberta

ARC Clean Technology Canada (ARC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) for co-operation in the commercialisation…

Nuclear Power Plant

Restart of Ringhals 4 Faces Further Delay

While the start-up of unit 4 of Sweden’s Ringhals NPP is ongoing, power generation from the unit is not now expected to start until 1 April, according to …

Nuclear Reactor

US, Canadian and Polish Companies to Support BWRX-300 Deployment

US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are teaming up with Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Poland&rsquo…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japanese High Court Supports Operation of Ikata NPP Unit 3

Japan’s Hiroshima High Court high court has rejected a petition by local residents to halt the operation of unit 3 at Shikoku Electric Power Co’s Ik…