Nuclear News Roundup Mar 01, 2025
Court rules Oyster Creek fuel storage casks are permanent world-nuclear-news.org
Court rules Oyster Creek fuel storage casks are permanent world-nuclear-news.org
Ambient office = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 95 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 98 nanosieverts per hour
The same process that powers the Sun could provide unlimited clean energy. However, before that happens, scientists need to solve one big problem. They need to keep reactor walls from trapping fuel.
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 106 nanosieverts per hour
Proxima Fusion is a venture-capital-backed company working on making nuclear fusion a reality. It has open-sourced its reactor design in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design this week. Although the design is a highly technical piece of work involving a lot of engineering, the company wants to share this information with the fusion community, whether based in the U.S. or China.
Minot AFB airmen complete Nuclear Surety Inspection minotdailynews.com
Ambient office = 81 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 94 nanosieverts per hour
China has begun the construction on its first nuclear reactor unit of the year with the pouring of first concrete at the Lufeng Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province. The milestone was completed on Monday. It marks the official start of the plant’s No. 1 reactor, which utilizes the CAP1000 third-generation pressurized water reactor (PWR) design.
Siemens Energy to supply turbines for Rolls-Royce SMR world-nuclear-news.org
Ambient office = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 117 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 115 nanosieverts per hour
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Ambient office = 110 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 82 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 91 nanosieverts per hour
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China's "artificial sun" reactor has broken its own world record for maintaining super-hot plasma. This marks another milestone in the long road towards near-limitless clean energy.
Ambient office = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 98 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 72 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 115 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 123 nanosieverts per hour