Europe and Japan Complete the Most Powerful Tokamak in the World Almost twelve years after they started their collaboration, Europe and Japan have taken an important step in the development of fusion energy by completing JT-60SA, the most powerful tokamak in the world before ITER enters the picture. With a diameter of 12 m, the…
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…
PSI Aim at Extending Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physic With the high-intensity proton accelerator HIPA, the Paul Scherrer Institute generates elementary particles to clarify a fundamental question: How is our universe structured? With the help of pions, muons, and neutrons, the PSI researchers are conducting experiments to find out how the well established yet…
Take this opportunity – additional Call for Papers The Programme Committee of the European Research Reactor Conference would like to offer all members of the research reactor community the possibility to present projects and share knowledge in 2020. It therefore opens a short Call for Papers and invites authors to submit abstracts until 28 August…
Generation IV – IAEA and GIF Call for Faster Deployment The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), an initiative involving 13 countries focused on next-generation nuclear power technologies, called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change. The appeal came during the…
New fuel test started in HFR Petten This month a new irradiation experiment on the behavior of nuclear fuel has started in the High Flux Reactor in Petten. With the new measurement technique, data is collected on the fissile material which can be used to develop new fuels and to optimize the efficiency of existing…
Russia Produced the First Full Batch of MOX Fuel for BN-800 Fast Reactor The Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region (East Siberia) has manufactured the first full reload batch of fresh uranium-plutonium MOX fuel for BN-800 fast reactor, operated at Beloyarsk NPP. The 169 fuel assemblies have been accepted by Rosenergoatom, the operator…