BWX Tech. Wins $26M to Expand and Upgrade Triso Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Line Idaho National Laboratory has awarded the nuclear operations subsidiary of BWX Technologies a contract to expand and upgrade its Triso nuclear fuel manufacturing line. The $26m contract will expand BWXT’s capacity for the manufacture of Triso fuel compacts and upgrade existing systems…
Cooperation on NICA Project intensifies Germany and Russia are planning to extend their cooperation on the superconducting Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA), being built in Dubna, near Moscow, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research reported. JINR has 18 member states. Germany is one of six associate members with Egypt, Hungary, Italy, South Africa and Serbia. NICA,…
ITER Project – Cryostat Manufacturing From India Is Over In September 2012, the Indian Domestic Agency concluded a contract with Larsen & Toubro for the fabrication of the 3,800-tonne ITER cryostat — the world’s largest steel vacuum chamber (16,000 m³) and a critical part of the ITER machine. Eight years later, the final segments are ready for shipment…
Westinghouse Awarded £10m From UK Government AMR Project Westinghouse Electric Company announced their Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) programme has successfully progressed to Phase 2 of the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) Feasibility and Development project, receiving £10m (€ 11.1 m) in funding from the BEIS Energy…
ITER Project Starts Its Five-Year Assembly The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday, 28th July 2020. Assembly in Cadarache is expected to be over in late 2025. The €20bn ITER project will replicate the reactions that power the sun and is intended to…
Framatome I&C System as Nuclear Plant Modernization Solution French nuclear company Framatome and Lockheed Martin have signed a teaming agreement that will integrate Lockheed Martin’s Discrete Logic Solving System (DLSS) into proven Framatome instrumentation and control (I&C) nuclear plant modernization solutions. This solution combines the companies’ technologies and supports the safety and reliability of nuclear…
Cooperation to Support UK Nuclear Engineering Projects Edvance UK, the UK branch of Edvance, the French nuclear power plant reactor engineering entity co-owned by EDF and Framatome, and Assystem, the world’s second-largest engineering company, has agreed to a transition contract. The contract will see Assystem UK provide engineering services and support on a number of…
Ultrasound Technique to Test Welding Seams of ITER Components A new technique to test ultrasonically welding seams of key components of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is about to be developed by specialists in non-destructive testing of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. Specialists from the EU, UK, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and US…
Framatome To Provide Field Instrumentation To Hinkley Point C French nuclear company Framatome signed a contract with Hinkley Point C to supply conventional field instrumentation for the two UK EPRs under construction at the nuclear power station located in England. Approximately 10,000 instruments will monitor and measure temperature, flow, pressure, and level under all operating…
ITER Cryostat Lower Cylinder Has Been Installed A major assembly milestone has been achieved at Cadarache, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) site. The cryostat lower cylinder has been installed, reaching its position above the base sector. The installation process has been long and very cautious and started on 22 August, when a 192-wheel self-propelled…