Jan 29, 2025 · China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has set a new world record maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds at a temperature close to 70m degrees Celsius. This sets a new world record and marks a significant breakthrough in the pursuit of fusion power generation, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This milestone ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Italy’s Edison has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with France’s EDF and Italy’s ENEA under which the companies will collaborate on industrial applications of small modular reactors (SMRs). Edison explained in a note that the collaboration will focus on the analysis of thermal hydraulic and passive safety systems, new technologies, integral system operation, and the ...

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse: Navigating the nuclear power generation industry’s environmental impact While the environmental challenges associated with nuclear power are significant, there are strategies that can be employed to mitigate these impacts and promote biodiversity conservation

Jan 29, 2025 · Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final Repository for Short-Lived Radioactive…

Jan 29, 2025 · The jury is still out on what Donald Trump’s second term will mean for nuclear power, but the potential implications are profound both for the US and beyond.

Mar 23, 2004 · Dounreay 50 years on In 1954, the go-ahead was given for the construction of the experimental fast reactor at Dounreay. Over the last 50 years, Alistair Fraser of UKAEA has seen – and been closely involved in – the transformation of the former Dounreay airfield. By …

Jan 10, 2025 · Türkiye’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant, developed in collaboration with Russia's Rosatom, is set to become partially operational in 2025.

Jul 24, 2024 · The technology being developed by Copenhagen Atomics is a heavy water moderated thorium molten salt reactor built into a 40-foot container, manufactured in a similar way to how cars are produced today. The plan is to mass manufacture the reactors on an assembly line, with an output of one reactor per day per assembly line. The output per reactor is 100 MW thermal and the idea is to put them ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak) reactor – an experimental fusion device designed, built and operated by the Plasma Science & Fusion Technology Laboratory of the University of Seville, Spain – has generated its first plasma. SMART is unique because of its flexibility to generate plasmas with different shapes. It will be the first spherical tokamak to fully explore the potential of ...

Dec 11, 2024 · France-headquartered nuclear start-up newcleo has submitted an application to the UK Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) for approval to enter the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) for its LFR-AS-200 small modular lead-cooled fast reactor. UK regulators – the Environment Agency, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) – use the GDA to scrutinise ...