World Nuclear News
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Bruce Power, Isogen look to build on radioisotope success
Bruce Power and Kinectrics-Framatome joint venture Isogen are examining the feasibility of producing the medical radioisotope yttrium-90 using the...
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Vattenfall considers building SMRs at Ringhals
Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall announced it is initiating a pilot study looking at the conditions for constructing at least two...
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Orano contracted to reprocess Fugen used fuel
Orano has been awarded a contract by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for the transport and treatment in France of 731 used fuel assemblies from the...
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Biden pledges USD14 million for Romanian SMR project
The US government, working with NuScale Power, is to provide USD14 million in support for the Front-End Engineering and Design study for...
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Decommissioning milestone at Spain's Zorita plant
The demolition of the last remaining large building, the turbine building, at the shut down José Cabrera (Zorita) nuclear power plant has been...
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Sellafield processes last of fast reactor fuel
The Magnox reprocessing plant at the Sellafield site in Cumbria has reprocessed the final box of used fuel from the UK's fast reactor programme...
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Sixth Hongyanhe unit enters commercial operation
Unit 6 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province has entered commercial operation, China General Nuclear has announced....
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Advanced nuclear tech projects selected for US federal support
Orano Federal Services and TerraPower will gain access to the US Department of Energy's national laboratories to help advance their nuclear...
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Poland expands cooperation on SMRs and large reactors
Polish state-owned energy company Enea SA has signed an agreement with US small modular reactor developer Last Energy to cooperate on the...
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BNS questions limit to extended operation of Belgian units
In a recent position paper, the Belgian Nuclear Society welcomed the political decision to keep two reactors - Doel 4 and Tihange 3 - in operation...