Westinghouse has been awarded a grant by the U.K. government to complete a Pre-Front End Engineering Design study for production of tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuels at its Springfields facility in Preston, Lancashire. They will be collaborating with Urenco. The grant came through the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
General Atomics (GA) has just revealed a steady-state, compact advanced tokamak Fusion Pilot Plant (FPP) concept. GA says that the FPP design capitalizes on its innovations and advancements in fusion technology.
Fortum is a Finnish utility company. They have just launched a two-year feasibility study to review the prerequisites for constructing new commercial nuclear reactors in Finland and Sweden. Both small modular reactors (SMRs) and conventional big reactors will be included in the study.
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On October 23rd, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said he had recently held phone talks with France’s defense minister Sébastien Lecornu, Turkey’s Hulusi Akar, and Britain’s Ben Wallace. During the talks, Shoigu expressed “concerns over the alleged possible use of a ‘dirty bomb’ by Ukraine”.
Finland has strengthened its regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety and made significant progress in recent years. This was reported by a team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).