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EQUIPMENT THE DELIVERY OF automation cabinets for unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP has been completed. Electrical equipment supplier, the All-Russian Research Institute of Relay Engineering (VNIIR), part of the ABS Electro, group of companies, delivered automatic cabinets and control cabinets for 330 kV switchgear of the ShRT series.
SOFTWARE/DIGITAL US-BASED NUSCALE Power and Paragon Energy Solutions has signed a licence agreement to enable potential widespread use of the Highly Integrated Protection System (HIPS) platform. The HIPS platform is a reactor protection system architecture jointly developed by NuScale and Rock Creek Innovations, which was acquired by Paragon in 2021.
SWEDEN’S STUDSVIK SCANDPOWER and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have initiated a strategic partnership to address the growing need for Quality Assured neutronic simulation in the Advanced Reactor. The partnership aims to expand the commercial uses of Serpent software to the advanced civil nuclear community and will continue the growth of the Studsvik product line with a new version of Serpent under Studsvik’s NQA-1 and 10 CFR50 Appendix B Quality Assurance program, Serpent-SSP.
REGULATION AND LAW THE TOKYO DISTRICT court has ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company to pay JPY13,000bn ($95bn) in damages to the operator of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi NPP. The civil case was brought by 48 Tepco shareholders in 2012 against five former Tepco officials The court found four liable to pay the damages.
Norway Westinghouse to assist in decommissioning research reactors US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has announced a major engineering contract with Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) to plan the decommissioning of Norway’s two nuclear research reactors, located in Halden and Kjeller. The three-year agreement includes options up to six years and is valued at up to $100m (NOK1bn). “The decommissioning of the nuclear
facilities in Norway is a complicated assignment and NND welcomes the international decommissioning experience that Westinghouse brings to this project,” said Nils Bøhmer, CTO at NND.
Sam Shakir, President, Westinghouse
Environmental Services, noted: “We will reimagine the sites as safe, thriving, and sustainable and ensure the decommissioning projects are completed efficiently and in a manner that returns them to green fields.” Currently, Norway’s Department of Energy
Technology (IFE) has a licence to own and operate the Norwegian nuclear facilities in Halden and Kjeller. In the long term, NND, established in 2018, will take over all licences and is preparing for the takeover of all relevant facilities, with associated necessary personnel and responsibility from IFE on 1 January 2024.
USA Fusion breakthrough for TAE US-based TAE Technologies has closed a $250m fi nancing round, after achieving temperatures greater than 75 million degrees Celsius and demonstrating real-time control of plasma with its fusion research reactor, Norman. TAE said it had secured strategic and institutional investments to fund the construction of its next research reactor, Copernicus. TAE’s sixth generation Copernicus reactor, which will be constructed in a 100,000 ft2
(9,300 m2
the path to commercialise fusion power. FRC uses a combination of plasma physics and accelerator physics, developed to integrate into the grid with TAE’s preferred fuel source, hydrogen-boron, also known as proton-boron or p-B11. TAE has to date raised a total of $1.2bn for its
commercial fusion development. In its recently closed Series G-2 financing round, TAE secured $250m from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors. Chevron, Google, Reimagined Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, and TIFF Investment Management are among the company’s most recent investors, along with a large US West coast based mutual fund manager and a big US pension fund. Goldman Sachs served as the exclusive financial advisor for the Series G-2 financing round. TAE Technologies. founded in 1998 has filed more than 1,800 patents globally with more than 1,100 already granted.
China First concrete for Haiyang NPP unit 3 First concrete has been poured for unit 3 of the Haiyang NPP in China’s Shandong province, marking the offi cial start of construction on the fi rst of two CAP1000 reactors. Construction of the foundation slab of the nuclear island for Haiyang 3 took 53 hours, and a total of 5488 m3
of concrete, according to the Shanghai
Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute.
In April the State Council of China approved ) facility in
Irvine, California, is designed to demonstrate the viability of achieving net energy generation with TAE’s advanced beam-driven fi eld-reversed confi guration (FRC) – the penultimate step on
construction of two new CAP1000 power units each at three NPPs – Sanmen (units 3&4), Haiyan (3&4) and Lufeng (5&6). Two Westinghouse AP1000 units are already in operation at Sanmen and Haiyang stations, and two CAP1000 units, the Chinese version of the AP1000, have been approved for the second phase of each station. First concrete was poured for the nuclear island of Sanmen 3 in June. In May, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) signed contracts for the civil construction of nuclear islands and installation work for the planned second phases of the Sanmen and Haiyang plants. U
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