College Station TX (SPX) May 05, 2020 - A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of radioactive
Paris, France (SPX) May 05, 2020 - Framatome and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) recently began the commercial development of uranium-molybdenum fuel (UMo) for nuclear research reactors. Framatome and TUM will design a
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 - Around the world, there are pools of water filled with nuclear waste waiting for their final resting place. This is waste that was created from decades of nuclear power generation, and the waste mus
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 - Framatome was awarded a multimillion-euro contract to modernize the crane instrumentation and control (I and C) systems at the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), which is operate
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 - Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have proposed a method that speeds up the calculation of nanobubble diffusion in solid materials. This method makes it possible to cre
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 - Framatome signed a long-term service contract with the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company Limited (TNPJVC) to support operations of two EPRs at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China. Thi
Paris (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 - April 8, 2020 - Framatome was awarded a contract to deliver the reactor protection system for units 1 and 2 at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant II in Russia. The contract includes planning, designing,
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 - Framatome's fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington, received a positive report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) following its recent biennial license performance review
Chesham UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 - Resolve Optics reports on how its non-browning lenses are helping a specialist camera manufacturer to supply a turnkey solution for monitoring remote operations in high radiation environments.
Moscow (AFP) March 18, 2020 - Moscow authorities on Wednesday began work on building a highway over a Soviet-era dump of radioactive materials, despite months of public protests and warnings from environmental campaigners.
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 - Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the civil nuclear industry or as fallout from nuclear weapon tests, the ratio of the two anthropogenic, i.e.
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2020 - The US military said Monday they are planning to deploy a miniature nuclear generator that can be carried in a freight truck and could power a remote base indefinitely.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 09, 2020 - The Defense Department issued contracts to three companies on Monday to begin design work on small, mobile nuclear reactors for use on U.S. military bases.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 - Since incidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, many countries have switched from nuclear power to electricity production fired by fossil fuels, despite the environmental consequence
Wilmington NC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 - GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) report sthat it has made the first submittal to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for the Vendor Design Review (VDR) of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 - VTT launched the Finnish development of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) intended for district heat production. The first phase of the project will involve the conceptual design of a nuclear power plan
