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Nuclear Fuel

‘No Crisis’ for Koeberg Fuel Supply as South Africa Continues Loadshedding

South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has said there is "no immediate crisis" from the expiry of the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement betwe…

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 Fuel

AEOI Chief Rejects IAEA Report Over Change in Enrichment

TEHRAN, Feb. 02 (MNA) – The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami says that the IAEA Wednesday report was issued based on a false…

Nuclear Power Plant

Lucas Heights Redevelopment Project Gets Under Way

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has begun a project at its Lucas Heights facility near Sydney to remove general solid waste, …

Nuclear Technology

Darlington Ready to Produce Medical Radioisotope

Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) nuclear power plant is set to become the first commercial power reactor in the world to produce molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) after…

Nuclear Reactor

South Korea Offers to Build NPP for Turkey

Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) has submitted a preliminary proposal to Turkey for the construction of four APR-1400 units at a site in northern part o…

Nuclear Technology

Invest Alberta Supports Deployment of Xe-100 SMR

X-Energy Canada and Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) supporting the potential deployment of the Xe-100 small mod…

Energy Security

Modern Surface Assessment Technologies Address Today’s Inspection Challenges in Nuclear Power Plants

While nuclear power plants are some of the most highly regulated and safe worksites in the world, inspection challenges remain. According to estimates by indust…

Nuclear Decommissioning

Belgium’s Nuclear Phase-Out Policy Claims Second Victim

The Tihange nuclear power plant. (Photo: Engie Electrabel)Unit 2 at Tihange, one of Belgium’s two nuclear power plants, was permanently disconnected from …

Nuclear Reactor

Show Support for a Lego Nuclear Power Plant

A creative fan of Lego—and nuclear power—has designed a nuclear power plant out of the famous building blocks and has submitted the idea to the Lego Group for…

Nuclear Technology

University of Florida-Led Consortium to Research Nuclear Forensics

Members of the Consortium for Nuclear Forensics. (Image: University of Florida)A 16-university team of 31 scientists and engineers, under the title Consortium f…

Nuclear Reactor

Bruce Power’s Unit 3 Marks 45 Years of Operation; Final Preparations Underway for Major Component Replacement Outage

Workers gather in the Unit 3 turbine hall to celebrate 45 years of the unit's operation and one month until the beginning of its Major Component Replacement…

Energy Security

Cs-137 Sealed Source Found in Western Australia

Australian emergency services has located the lost sealed source, the BBC reported early February 1.The caesium-137 capsule, part of a density gauge used at Rio…

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…

Nuclear Technology

Can New Cheap, Frequent “Laser” Monitoring of Critical Components Extend Nuclear Plant Lifetimes by Decades?

A new way to assess radiation damage in reactors. Engineers designed a tool that enables faster measurements of the condition of some nuclear reactor components…