The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to submit the Construction Permit Application for the Clinch River small modular reactor to the US regulator by June.
James Scongack is chief operating officer of Canada's Bruce Power, and chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Isotopes Council. Here is an edited transcript of his World Nuclear News podcast interview about the importance of nuclear medicine and how it complements the industry's core energy business.
TerraPower has formally notified UK regulators that it plans to begin the generic design approval process for its Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor, a first step towards deploying the technology in an international market.
A memorandum of understanding and a master services agreement signed by Westinghouse Electric Company and McMaster University aim to move the eVinci microreactor towards commercialisation.
The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project, under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced.
A consortium led by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been awarded a USD10 million contract by the University of Missouri for the design and licensing of its planned new research reactor.
A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete composite that is claimed to significantly reduce the cost of building nuclear reactor containment structures.