World Nuclear News
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Lightbridge fuel offers Pu management option
Simulations have shown that a fuel rod designed by the company significantly outperforms traditional MOX fuel in consuming plutonium, and would be...
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Cabinet approves change in Japanese nuclear policy
Japan's Cabinet has approved a policy to allow new nuclear power reactors to be constructed and the operation of existing reactors to be...
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Tokamak to construct demo fusion reactor at Culham
Tokamak Energy is to build a prototype compact spherical tokamak, the ST80-HTS, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Campus, near Oxford,...
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Partnership for UK fusion materials development
Materials with better resilience to the extreme conditions in fusion energy power plants are to be developed in a new partnership between the UK...
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Cameco to supply Ukraine's uranium needs to 2035
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy utility Energoatom and Cameco Corporation have agreed commercial terms for a major supply contract that...
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IEA highlights nuclear's key role in coming years
Renewables together with nuclear power are expected to meet the vast majority of the increase in global electricity demand over the next three...
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IAEA sees enhanced safety at Czech research reactor
Safety programmes and procedures at the Czech Republic's LVR-15 research reactor have been enhanced through implementation of the...
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Ministry upholds Berkeley licence denial
Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has upheld its refusal to authorise Berkeley Energia to build a...
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BWRX-300 selected for Estonia's first nuclear power plant
Estonia's Fermi Energia has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX-300 small modular reactor for potential deployment in the Baltic...
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Team uses muography to create 3D image of reactor
Researchers at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission have used muons - cosmic particles - to remotely and non-invasively...