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BWRX-300 completes Phases 1 & 2 of Canadian pre-licensing review

BWRX-300 completes Phases 1 & 2 of Canadian pre-licensing review

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has completed a combined Phases 1 and 2 vendor design review of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX-300 small modular reactor. The regulator said that no fundamental barriers to licensing were identified during the review.

New Nuclear 15 March 2023

Production under way of prototype pump unit for lead-cooled BREST-OD-300

Production under way of prototype pump unit for lead-cooled BREST-OD-300

Assembly has begun for the prototype of the main circulation pump unit for the lead-cooled fast neutron reactor BREST-OD-300 being built in Russia.

New Nuclear 06 March 2023

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South Korea's APR1000 certified for European use by EUR

South Korea's APR1000 certified for European use by EUR

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power's APR1000 reactor design has been formally certified as compliant by the European Utility Requirements organisation - a technical advisory group for European utilities on nuclear power plants.

Regulation & Safety 02 March 2023

In Quotes: GE Hitachi's Jay Wileman on regulatory harmonisation

In Quotes: GE Hitachi's Jay Wileman on regulatory harmonisation

In an interview for the World Nuclear News podcast GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s President and CEO Jay Wileman explained why nuclear has a key role in achieving carbon reduction targets, and how regulatory harmonisation between different countries could help speed that process.

Regulation & Safety 20 February 2023

BWRX-300 selected for Estonia's first nuclear power plant

BWRX-300 selected for Estonia's first nuclear power plant

Estonia's Fermi Energia has selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX-300 small modular reactor for potential deployment in the Baltic country by the early 2030s. Two other SMR designs had been under consideration.

New Nuclear 08 February 2023

French regulator supports safety options for EPR1200

French regulator supports safety options for EPR1200

France's nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, at the request of the government, has issued an opinion on the safety options file for EDF's EPR1200 pressurised water reactor design. It said its opinion on the safety options for the design - intended for export - is broadly similar to that it gave in July 2019 on those of the EPR2 reactor, from which it is derived.

Regulation & Safety 02 February 2023

MoltexFLEX wins grant for graphite research

MoltexFLEX wins grant for graphite research

Moltex Energy Limited subsidiary MoltexFLEX has received a research grant to work with researchers at the University of Manchester to investigate how its FLEX reactor's molten coolant salt interacts with graphite, enabling detailed characterisation work to be undertaken.

New Nuclear 01 February 2023

Canadian and UK regulators agree terms for cooperation

Canadian and UK regulators agree terms for cooperation

Terms of Reference have been signed and published between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation for a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two organisations. They plan to share best practice and experience around reviewing Advanced Modular Reactor and Small Modular Reactor technologies.

Regulation & Safety 19 January 2023

Draft design for molten-salt research reactor plant in Russia

Draft design for molten-salt research reactor plant in Russia

Russia's NA Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering has completed the draft design for a research reactor with a circulating molten salt fuel due to be built at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Mining and Chemical Combine in Krasnoyarsk region.

New Nuclear 06 January 2023

Copenhagen Atomics puts forward SMR design for UK appraisal

Copenhagen Atomics puts forward SMR design for UK appraisal

UK Atomics - a subsidiary of Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics - has submitted a Generic Design Assessment entry application for its small and modular thorium molten salt reactor to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

New Nuclear 05 January 2023