Westinghouse Electric Company has submitted the first set of documents to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) required for the pre-licensing vendor design review (VDR) of its eVinci microreactor.
Located in southeast Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe. It normally produces about twenty percent of Ukraine’s electricity. The plant was captured by Russian forces in March of 2022. At the time of its capture, it was feared that the Russian forces would destroy the plant to halt a Ukrainian advance.
Certain microbes can use radionuclides such as uranium and neptunium instead of oxygen. In the process, they convert the radionuclides from soluble forms to insoluble forms which makes them less mobile. This should improve our confidence in radioactive waste disposal plans according to Jonathan Lloyd. Lloyd is a geomicrobiologist at the University of Manchester in the U.K.
Before it collapsed in 1991, the Soviet Union (S.U.) manufactured more than twenty-seven thousand nuclear weapons. They also produced more than enough weapons grade uranium and plutonium to make another eighty-one thousand nuclear weapons. The S.U. suffered severe economic distress, widespread corruption, lax security and dependency on the bureaucratic.
Consolidated Uranium Incorporated (CU) is based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It has announced the start of a set of comprehensive work programs. One such program involves the reopening of the underground workings of its Tony M uranium mine. It has been fifteen years since the mine last produced uranium. CU also plans to investigate the vanadium potential of the underground Tony M mine.