CIVIL NUCLEAR - WIND DAILY

Sri Lanka expels ship carrying nuclear material for China

Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)

The country's Atomic Energy Regulatory Council said the MV BBC Naples was asked to leave after it was found to be in the Chinese-run port of Hambantota on Tuesd...

Czechs ban Rosatom from nuclear tender, rule out Sputnik vaccine

Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)

The announcements follow tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after Prague accused Russia's secret services of being behind a fatal explosion on Czech territory ...

Iran brushes aside concerns over 'peaceful' nuclear programme

Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)

Rouhani said in televised remarks that it was a "mistake" for Europe and the United States to express concerns that the move "means we can enrich to 90 percent ...

Framatome launches new subsidiary in Central Europe

Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)

"We are committed to expanding our team's skills and growing internationally so we are well positioned to support the nuclear industry in providing reliable, lo...

UAE begins commercial operations of first Arab nuclear plant

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

"The UAE has entered a landmark phase today," tweeted Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the UAE vice president and prime minister. "The first megawatt from...

BWXT awarded additional Nuclear Thermal Propulsion work for NASA

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

Under the terms of a $9.4 million, one-year contract awarded to its BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC subsidiary, BWXT will focus primarily on nuclear fuel design ...

New project to research nuclear decontamination robots

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

The four-year ALACANDRA project is led by Professor Malcolm Joyce from Lancaster and Professor Barry Lennox from the University of Manchester. It brings togethe...

Framatome commissions high-precision measurement facility in Jeumont, France

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

"Over the past three years, we invested approximately 60 million euros to enhance the industrial performance of our component manufacturing plants in Jeumont, S...

How many countries are ready for nuclear-powered electricity?

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

A new study in the journal Risk Analysis suggests that countries representing more than 80 percent of potential growth in low-carbon electricity demand - in Asi...

Scientists find explanation for abnormally fast release of gas from nuclear fuel

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

The result points the way to eliminate the paradoxical discrepancy of several orders of magnitude between existing theoretical models and experimental results. ...

Olkiluoto 3: Framatome teams all set for fuel loading

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

"Fuel loading is a major milestone for the project. Reaching this milestone illustrates the expertise and know-how of our teams," said Bernard Fontana, CEO of F...

Wireless tech a 'game changer' for nuclear power plants

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

Wireless technology, says Rudy Shankar, director of the Energy Systems Engineering program within Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and App...

Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

"We found that the large spin-orbit coupling and strong electronic correlations in a system of uranium-cobalt-aluminum doped with ruthenium resulted in a coloss...

The NWMO 2020 annual report celebrates progress and resilience

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

Our 2020 annual report - Guided by science. Grounded in knowledge. Committed to partnership. - was submitted on March 25, 2021, to Canada's Natural Resources Mi...

Framatome to deliver PROtect advanced fuel technologies to Xcel Energy's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Evolving from traditional fuel designs, Framatome's PROtect EATF is more tolerant to loss of active cooling in the reactor core for longer periods because its r...

Flamanville 3: complementary justifications on three nozzles of the primary circuit

Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)

Framatome Engineering teams, as a support of EDF teams, have launched an instruction aiming at precisely determining the causes of the event. In order to propos...

Lightbridge and Framatome announce settlement agreement to dissolve Enfission Joint Venture

Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)

As per the terms of the Agreement, Lightbridge and Framatome are each free to pursue their ongoing technology development without any constraints. Lightbridge h...

Pentagon extends contract options for nuclear microreactor prototype

Mar 23, 2021 (UPI)

BWXT Advanced Technologies and X-energy, both of which won contracts last year to develop portable nuclear reactors, will continue that work under the new optio...

Detecting nuclear power pollution separate from global fall out

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Publishing in the journal Nature Communications, researchers show how they have measured the previously 'unmeasurable' and taken a step forward in differentiati...

Nuclear power is important for a decarbonized, resilient energy system

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

In a virtual panel discussion sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Mansoor pointed to the exceptional...