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INDIA WILL GET 9% of its electricity from nuclear sources by 2047, the centenary year of India’s independence, according to the Union Minister of State for Science, Technology, Atomic Energy & Space, Jitendra Singh. He said the increasing share of nuclear power in India’s energy mix would help it move towards achieving its commitment of reaching net zero by 2070.
IN A NEW report, “What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste”, environmental group RePlanet advocates recycling used nuclear fuel as fuel for advanced fast reactors. The report proposes “a repurposing of nuclear materials with a view to fast-tracking an urgent programme of fast reactor build-outs”.
THE ILLINOIS SENATE in the US has voted to lift a 30-year ban on the construction of new NPPs in the state. The Senate passed State Senator Sue Rezin’s legislation, Senate Bill 76, by a 39-13 bipartisan vote, and it will now move to the House for further consideration. A similar bill, House Bill 1079 was approved in committee with a bipartisan majority of 18-3.
SAFETY AND SECURITY AN INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency (IAEA) International Security Advisory Mission (INSServ) following a 10-day visit to Vietnam said the country has made progress towards establishing an effective national nuclear security regime for nuclear or other radioactive material out of regulatory control. The team encouraged the authorities to further integrate existing systems and measures into a national nuclear security policy.
treatment, the granulated waste will be stored
in stainless-steel canisters within concrete vaults at the IWTU. Ultimately, the waste will be disposed of at a national geological repository. In the run-up to starting radiological
operations, the IWTU Operations crew coordinated with New Waste Calcining Facility (NWCF) Operations personnel to pump SBW from NWCF tanks to the IWTU waste feed tank where it was blended with simulant to achieve the desired blend ratio. The SBW waste to be treated was generated
from operations at Idaho Nuclear Technology & Engineering Center (INTEC). IWTU, located east of INTEC, uses a steam-
reforming technology to convert the liquid to a solid and will package it in stainless steel canisters to be stored in concrete vaults at the site. Any emissions generated during the treatment campaign are filtered and sampled to ensure regulatory requirements are met. NWCF converted high-level radioactive liquid waste from INTEC tanks until May 2000 in a process called calcining. The infrastructure from that former operation — such as waste transfer lines and holding tanks — will be used by IWTU.
United Kingdom Rolls-Royce SMR progresses GDA Rolls-Royce SMR Limited’s 470 MWe small modular reactor (SMR) design has completed the fi rst step of the UK’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process and is expected to complete the second step by July 2024. Rolls Royce then aims to complete Step 3 – Detailed Assessment, in August 2026. Entry into Step 3 will be subject to regulatory agreement, and confi rmation that appropriate funding and resources are in place. The three-step GDA process is carried out by the Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW). At the end of the process, a Design Acceptance Confirmation will be issued by ONR and an EA Statement of Design Acceptability. In May 2021, the UK’s Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) opened the GDA process to advanced nuclear
technologies, including SMRs. The Rolls-Royce design was accepted for review in March 2022. The SMR design has now entered Step 2 of
the GDA process, which is where the detailed technical assessment by the regulators is carried out. “We have agreed a submission schedule with [Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd], which includes the submission of more than 500 documents during Step 2,” the regulators said. The regulators added: “Our next steps will be
to finalise our schedule of work and plans for Step 2, and then begin to review and assess the submissions that will be provided by Rolls- Royce SMR Ltd during Step 2.”
Czech Republic Westinghouse in VVER-440 fuel deal Westinghouse Electric Company and Czech power company CEZ have signed an agreement on the supply of fuel assemblies for Dukovany NPP, which comprises four Soviet-built VVER- 440 reactors. Westinghouse says it will deliver fuel beginning in 2024, “replacing the current supplier, with an anticipated term of seven years”. The current fuel supplier is Russia’s TVEL. According to Westinghouse, the contract “builds on the long-standing partnership between the two companies and a recent agreement to provide modified Robust Westinghouse Fuel Assemblies (RWFA) for the Temelin nuclear power plant”. Temelin has two Russian-designed VVER-1000 units. CEZ Group concluded contracts with
Westinghouse and France’s Framatome in 2022 for the supply of fuel assemblies for the Temelín NPP. Deliveries of assemblies for more than 10 years will begin in 2024. Previously fuel was supplied by TVEL. Currently, CEZ has fuel assemblies for approximately two years of operation at Temelin. The stock at the Dukovany NPP is even greater, CEZ said. “We decided to increase the stockpile at both NPPs in 2016. As a result, we have enough assemblies at Dukovany for approximately three years of operation of all the units, said Bohdan Zronek, Director of the CEZ Nuclear Power Division, at that time. “Of course, we continue to think about the diversification of suppliers,” he added.
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