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2023-01-04
UK government opens bidding for nuclear fuel fund
The UK government has begun accepting bids for up to GBP50 million (USD60 million) funding for projects it hopes will "stimulate a diverse and resilient nuclear fuel market" in the country.
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2023-01-03
Canadian refurbishment projects hit milestones
Bruce Power and its partners have completed the bulk of the construction phase of the major component replacement (MCR) outage at Bruce unit 6 and are transitioning to activities to bring the unit back online in the fourth quarter of 2023
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2022-12-30
Japan adopts plan to maximise use of nuclear energy
The Japanese government has adopted a plan to extend the operation of existing nuclear power reactors and replace aging facilities with new advanced ones.
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2022-12-29
NND applies to assume responsibility for Norwegian facilities
Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) has submitted an application for a licence to own and operate the two Norwegian nuclear facilities in Halden and Kjeller, as well as the operation of the waste landfill for low- and intermediate-level radioactive material in Himdalen.
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2022-12-26
SKB receives environmental permit for SFR expansion
Sweden's Land and Environment Court has granted radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) an environmental permit to extend the SFR final repository for low and intermediate-level waste at Forsmark.
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2022-12-23
NuScale completes standard plant design
The standard plant design - or SPD - provides customers with a generic design for the VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant that will serve as a starting point for deploying site-specific designs.
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2022-12-22
Terrafame to begin producing uranium in 2024
Finnish mining company Terrafame plans to start recovering natural uranium as a byproduct of zinc and nickel production at its Sotkamo mine in the north-east of the country by the summer of 2024.
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2022-12-21
Kazatomprom completes trans-Caspian uranium delivery
Kazakhstan's national atomic company said the delivery of uranium owned by Kazatomprom and by the Inkai joint venture has arrived at a Canadian port.
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2022-12-20
Method developed for Sellafield floc retrieval
A technique has been developed to suck up and move a sludgy radioactive substance, known as flocculant, currently stored in legacy effluent tanks at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK.
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2022-12-19
First contracts awarded for US strategic uranium reserve
Energy Fuels Inc and Peninsula Energy Limited subsidiary Strata Energy Inc have been awarded contracts to supply natural uranium concentrates to establish a federal reserve of domestically produced material.