The UK's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will launch a €88.3 million Nuclear Fuel Fund to boost domestic production of fuel for nuclear power reactors.
- July 21, 2022
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Belgium's SCK-CEN nuclear research centre will receive a budget of €100 million from the federal government to conduct research into small modular reactors (SMRs).
- May 26, 2022
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The CEO of Energoatom, Ukraine's state enterprise operating all four nuclear plants in the country has announced that construction work on two new Westinghouse AP1000 units at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant "will begin as soon as the war is over". In an interview, Petro Kotin said that the agreement signed with Westinghouse covered the construction of five units in total, with the other three units to be distributed at the country’s other existing nuclear power plants.
- May 21, 2022
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For the first time, a team of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and University of Idaho researchers has successfully applied machine learning to characterizing the micro-structure of metallic nuclear fuel. The data collected through this technique will be used by engineers to predict fuel performance more accurately as they develop fuel for the next generation of nuclear power reactors.
- May 18, 2022
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Called the Nuclear Enabled Hydrogen Working Group (NEHWG), the think tank will include members from academia, experts from the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), and professionals from the law firm Burges Salmon and oil and gas services company, Petrofac.
- March 24, 2022
The Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has recently announced that the government will invest close to ₽100 billion (€1.5 bn) into developing new nuclear projects. The New Nuclear Energy project includes the construction of low-capacity NPPs, the creation of a technological platform for waste-free energy with a closed fuel cycle, the development of a nuclear technology market and the creation of new nuclear fuel.
- February 17, 2022
