April 2024

Nuclear Reactors 1368 - Clean Core Thorium Energy Is Working On Licensing Their ANEEL Fuel In Canada

     Clean Core Thorium Energy (Clean Core) recently announced successful completion of the Phase 1 pre-licensing Vendor Design Review (VDR) process with the  Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC).  CNSC is the regulatory authority for Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactors. Clean Core has been actively involved with Canada’s nuclear industry with their patented fuel technology, the ANEEL™ fuel.

Nuclear Reactors 1367 - X-energy and Cavendish Energy Get U.K. Funding For Hydrogen Cooled Reactors

     X-energy and Cavendish Nuclear have been awarded four and a quarter million dollars by the U.K. government to assess how domestic manufacturing could support the construction of an advanced small pebble-bed nuclear reactor. The pair want to build twelve reactors in Hartlepool by the early 2030s to help decarbonize local industry.

Nuclear Fusion 69 - First Light Fusions Experiments With An Electric Gun For Inertial Confinement Fusion

     Korean-based energy technology startup First Light Fusion (First Light) has announced a breakthrough for its novel nuclear fusion technology. First Light is a spin-off from the University of Oxford. It has successfully tested its “electric gun” to ignite fuel in its test reactor’s core.

Nuclear Reactors 1366 - Argonne National Laboratory Is Working On Alternative Cooling Schemes For The Columbia Generating Station

     The current fleet of commercial nuclear power reactors across the U.S. is cooled by water from a variety of sources. Rivers, lakes, and oceans are fed through systems that extract and dissipate heat from the reactor cores. However, the recent effects of climate change have been raising the temperature of bodies of water to the point where they cannot be used to cool reactors.

Nuclear Fusion 68 - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Is Working On A New Design For A Stellarator

     A team of scientists has achieved a major breakthrough in fusion energy technology. They have built a first-of-its-kind fusion experiment using permanent magnets. This is a surprisingly simple technique that could potentially dramatically reduce the cost of future fusion power plants.

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