Industry News

2022-08-16

One-year delay in Canadian repository site selection

Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has said that, due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it now does not expect to identify a preferred site for a deep geological repository until late-2024.
2022-08-15

Terrestrial Energy to work with Alberta on SMR commercialisation

A Memorandum of Understanding between the nuclear technology company and Invest Alberta supports commercialisation of Terrestrial Energy's Integral Molten Salt Reactor.
2022-08-12

UKAEA appoints consortium to help deliver STEP

A consortium led by Atkins as prime contractor, alongside Assystem, has been appointed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) as Engineering Delivery Partner (EDP) to its Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme.
2022-08-11

Dow to decarbonise with advanced nuclear

Materials science company Dow is to collaborate with X-energy to deploy Xe-100 high-temperature gas reactor technology to provide carbon-free process heat and power to one of Dow's US Gulf Coast sites.
2022-08-10

Chinese molten-salt reactor cleared for start up

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered molten-salt reactor.
2022-08-09

Wide public support for keeping German reactors online, say polls

A majority of the German public are in favour of the continued operation of the country's three remaining nuclear power reactors beyond the end of this year, the results of two opinion polls show.
2022-08-08

Quick installation of Zhangzhou 2 steam generators

All three steam generators for unit 2 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province have been installed over a five-day period.
2022-08-05

Vogtle 3 approved to load fuel

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has authorised Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load nuclear fuel and begin operation at Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia.
2022-08-03

Twin robots practice rescuing each other in fusion machine

Two identical remotely-operated manipulators used to maintain the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy machine at the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, UK, are being tested in a series of practice 'rescue missions'.
2022-08-02

Contract for waste repackaging building at Konrad

Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has awarded Hanover-based construction firm Ed Züblin AG a contract to construct the radioactive waste reloading hall at the Konrad repository in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

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