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IAEA focuses on access to water at COP27
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organised an event on 14 November at its Atoms4Climate pavilion – on the sidelines of COP27 meeting in Egypt – to discuss...
US report looks at innovations to meet climate goals
The US Administration has issued a new report, “US Innovation to Meet 2050 Climate Goals: Assessing Initial R&D Opportunities,” setting out initial priorities that will enable it to...
Westinghouse receives UK grant to develop advanced nuclear fuel
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company said on 26 October it had been awarded a grant from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to support development...
Funding allocated for Idaho National Lab improvement
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the US Administration has approved $150 million in funding under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act for...
US Southern Company and TerraPower build world’s largest chloride salt system
US Southern Company Services (SCS) and TerraPower recently built and installed a new test facility at TerraPower’s laboratory in Everett, Washington, according to the US Department...
Laurentis Energy supports Synthos and SMRs in Poland
Canada’s Laurentis Energy Partners and Polish energy company, Synthos Green Energy, have signed a Master Services Agreement (MSA) to support the development and deployment of...
US GAIN vouchers awarded for advanced reactors and used fuel recycling
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy’s (NE’s) Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative has awarded vouchers to three businesses to...
New nuclear medicine facility for Belgium’s University Hospital Leuven
Belgium’s Tractebel (part of French energy company Engie), along with its partner, Modulo Architects, has been awarded a new contract by the University Hospital of Leuven and the...
Poland and Romania to co-operate on deployment of NuScale SMR
Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedz and Romanian nuclear power plant operator Nuclearelectrica have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) during an Economic Forum...
Aktis Oncology announces actinium-225 supply agreements
US-based Aktis Oncology, a biotechnology company discovering and developing novel classes of targeted alpha radiopharmaceuticals to treat a broad range of solid tumours, has...
American Bureau of Shipping to look at nuclear propulsion
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to research barriers to the adoption of advanced nuclear propulsion on...
Trial operation begins at Bolivia’s nuclear research and technology centre
Rosatom has launched a trial operation of the first industrial facilities at the Centre for Nuclear Research and Technology (CNRT) under construction in El Alto, Bolivia, the...
China approves launch of liquid-salt thorium reactor
The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has received permission from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to...
Dow to support deployment of X-energy SMRs
US-based materials science company Dow, and nuclear energy innovation company X-energy have announced that they have signed a letter of intent which will help Dow advance its...
Iran to construct research reactor in Isfahan
Construction of a new research reactor in the central Iranian city of Isfahan will begin in the coming weeks.
Petten starts research into fuel cladding for EDF
Work has begun at NRG’s High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, to investigate material for fuel cladding tubes, according to NRG. In order to match the supply of electricity...
Idaho National Laboratory demonstrates digital twin of a simulated microreactor
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently performed their first digital twin test of a simulated microreactor, according to the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office...
Jamaica’s first Public Nuclear Medicine Centre opens with IAEA support
Jamaica’s first public nuclear medicine centre has opened with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) support in the University Hospital of the West Indies in the capital Kingston,...
Canada’s Bruce Power produces lutetium-177
An international collaboration between Canada’s Bruce Power, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company), and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), has announced the first...
