May 2024

Nuclear Weapons 859 - U.S. Senator Markley Demands That Any Deal Between Saudi Arabia and Israel Contain Proliferation Safeguards

     On Wednesday, a Democratic U.S. senator urged President Joe Biden to include strict nonproliferation safeguards in any nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia that might be part of a potential normalization of relations agreement brokered by the U.S. between the Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Nuclear Reactors 1380 - World Nuclear Association Conference Discusses Nuclear Power And Grid Needs - Part 1 of 2 Parts

Part 1 of 2 Parts
     Massive growth is expected in the global demand for electricity. If it materializes it will require an expansion of both generation and the transmission systems, speakers at a side event at the World Energy Congress 2024 agreed. They said that nuclear power will play an important role in ensuring the resilience of the future global electrical system.

Nuclear Reactors 1379 - Framatone Working On New Fuel For University of Munich Research Reactor.

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     France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to create an industrialization process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the TUM’s FRM II research reactor. Framatome said that this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever loaded into a European research reactor.

Nuclear Reactors 1378 - Holtec and Energoatom Collaborating on Small Modular Reactors Manufacturing In Ukraine.

     Energoatom and Holtec just signed an agreement to collaborate on SMR manufacturing facilities.
     The collaboration agreement provides for the creation in Ukraine of manufacturing capabilities for components for small modular reactors (SMRs), plus storage and transportation systems for spent nuclear fuel.  

Nuclear Reactors 1377 - Roll-Royce Seeking Faster Licensing For Small Modular Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts

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     Rafael Grossi is director-general of the IAEA. “For this business model to succeed, we need regulatory approaches to adapt to a new circumstance. We cannot afford the luxury of these regulatory marathons lasting five, six, seven years.”

Nuclear Reactors 1376 - Roll-Royce Seeking Faster Licensing For Small Modular Reactors - Part 1 of 2 Parts

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     Executives at Rolls-Royce estimate that U.K. regulators will take four and a half years to assess the safety of its design for a small modular reactor (SMR). The U.K. company must endure more lengthy approval processes in other countries where it wants to build its SMRs.

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