Since beginning as a munitions manufacturing site Birchwood Park has evolved to become a nuclear technology hub (All images in this story are courtesy of Birchwood Park) The nuclear industry boasts a ...

The World Association of Nuclear Operators unites all the world’s utilities that operate nuclear power plants. There are four regional centres – in Atlanta, Paris, Moscow, and Tokyo – central offices ...

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hanford Site in Washington state has begun its first transfer of Effluent Management Facility (EMF) concentrate to a local offsite facility for grouting. This ...

Ukraine’s nuclear utility Energoatom has signed agreements with US companies Holtec and Westinghouse to further develop its nuclear industry. The agreements were signed at the Ukraine Recovery ...

US start-up The Nuclear Company (TNC) has launched NOS (Nuclear Operating System) Security, a next-generation nuclear security platform, developed over the past year in stealth, to upgrade the ...

The CAREM-25 SMR construction site in August 2024 (Source: CNEA) Construction of Argentina’s CAREM-25 small modular reactor (SMR) has once again been stopped, this time by layoffs of construction ...

Chicago-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) has confirmed that its patented ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel successfully reached a burnup of over 60 GWd/MTU (gigawatt-days ...

Helena Perry, Safety & Regulatory Affairs Director for Rolls-Royce SMR Rolls-Royce SMR has welcomed the decision by the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Emma Reynolds, to ...

Neutron bombardment causes the lithium to decay to tritium, which is extracted from the lithium ‘blanket’ surrounding a fusion reactor Fusion reactor designs that are fuelled by deuterium and tritium ...

Above: Soviet PWR technology initially developed for icebreaker vessels such as the Yamal is the design origin of the RITM series With an over 80% market share, Rosatom has secured an almost ...

The last few years have seen growing interest in the prospects for nuclear shipping. Numerous start-up and established companies have proposed a range of designs for nuclear-propelled ships or vessels ...

Aerial view of the Paks-II construction site (Credit: Atomic Energy 2.0) Work at the construction site of the Paks-II NPP in Hungary being built by Rosatom is proceeding on schedule in accordance with ...