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Nuclear battery breakthrough
Research by a team led by Jae W Kwon at the University of Missouri in the USA has opened the door for the development of a new generation of water-based batteries powered by beta radiation. The technology could potentially be deployed in applications ranging from car batteries to spacecraft.
Energy & Environment
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Thursday, 18 September 2014
Japan to test tritium removal technologies
Japan has selected three overseas companies to construct demonstration projects to verify the suitability of their technologies for removing tritium from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Regulation & Safety
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Areva offers to build research reactor in Azerbaijan
Areva has presented Azerbaijan government officials with its proposals to construct a nuclear research reactor in the Central Asian country.
New Nuclear
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Friday, 5 September 2014
Design completed for prototype fast reactor
Russian power engineering R&D institute NIKIET has completed the engineering design for the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast reactor.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Hitachi collaborates on TRU-consuming reactor development
Japan's Hitachi has begun further joint research with three US universities into the development of reactors that could use transuranic (TRU) elements as fuel. This could result in a significant decrease in the time needed for the decay in the radioactivity of used fuel.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 29 August 2014
Cooperation deal to develop advanced reactor
South Korean designers have secured help from Argonne National Laboratory to develop an advanced reactor, which is partly based on America's successful EBR-II prototype. A 150 MWe sodium-cooled demonstration unit is slated for 2028.
New Nuclear
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014
UK opens robotics laboratory
A new centre for developing technologies for remote handling in extreme conditions has opened at the Culham Science Centre in the UK. A £15.6 million ($26.2 million) purpose-built facility is to be constructed at the site by 2016.
New Nuclear
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Friday, 8 August 2014
Harwell test facility prepares for decommissioning
Operations have ended at a post-irradiation examination facility at the UK's Harwell nuclear research site. Decommissioning activities will begin in about three years.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 7 August 2014
Japan, Indonesia team up on HTGR development
A demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) could be constructed in Indonesia following the signing of a cooperation agreement between Japan and Indonesia on developing such reactors.
Nuclear Policies
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Tuesday, 5 August 2014
New waste facility for Idaho laboratory
A new remote-handled low-level waste disposal facility should be in operation at the Idaho National Laboratory by October 2017. A $34 million contract for the facility's design and construction has now been awarded.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 4 August 2014
Viewpoint: Can americium replace plutonium in space missions?
Work by the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory to recover americium-241 from the UK's ageing civil plutonium stockpile under a contract with the European Space Agency raises some interesting issues, writes Ian Hore-Lacy.
Podcasts & Features
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Monday, 28 July 2014
South Africa budgets for nuclear
South Africa has confirmed its commitment to nuclear power, allocating ZAR850 million ($81 million) – over 10% of its energy ministry's budget – to research and development.
Nuclear Policies
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014
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