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World’s only floating nuclear plant generates record 1 billion kWh power before refuel
Using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel ... where it can be reprocessed. Rosatom is also considering constructing four floating nuclear power plants with capacities of 100 MWe and a lifetime ...
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Japan updates MOX fuel plans
Japan has again adjusted its plans for reprocessing used fuel and producing mixed oxide (MOX) fuel – its pluthermal ...
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Lightbridge and Oklo aim to co-locate fuel fabrication facilities
It uses metallic fuel to produce up to 50 MWe as well as producing usable heat, and can operate on fuel made from fresh high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) or used nuclear fuel. In October the US ...
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Spent fuel management options
Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...
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Sweden Begins Construction on World's Second Deep Geological Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel
Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached ... each with a capacity of 1,250 MWe. Beyond this, the government aims to deploy the equivalent ...
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Shrinking nuclear waste and increasing efficiency for a sustainable energy future
With help from the fast reactor, spent fuel from the thermal reactors will be reprocessed and reused, with a final waste footprint up to ten times smaller than that of regular nuclear fuel. India is ...
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TerraPower’s Natrium: Combining A Fast Neutron Reactor With Built-In Grid Level Storage
Most new nuclear ... MWe) reactor. Render of the demonstration TerraPower Natrium plant. (Source: TerraPower) As mentioned in the introduction, the Natrium reactor can use not just U-235 as its fuel.