FAN NOTE: Another piece published today on fluoride and nuclear power. A race is being run by nuclear scientists and ship designers. The prize? “Decarbonization’s” holy grail — believed to be a “small” thorium-fuelled, molten-salt rector’s unlimited power to propel sea trade. At the same time, a recently revived discussion among leading marine-nuclear thinkers revolves […]
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Ukraine nuclear enterprise Energoatom discusses cooperation with American company ConverDyn
FAN NOTE: This article highlights how fluoride is used in the production of nuclear fuel. An online meeting was held between the President of Ukraine’s nuclear enterprise Energoatom Petro Kotin and the President of the American conversion company ConverDyn Malcolm Critchley on September 22, 2022. Ukraine’s nuclear enterprise Energoatom shared its possible cooperation with American […]
Thorizon raises funds for MSR development
Thorizon of the Netherlands has raised EUR12.5 million (USD12.4 million) for the development of a thorium molten salt reactor (MSR). Thorizon is a spin-off from the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), the organisation that operates the High Flux Reactor in Petten. Thorizon’s molten salt reactor design (Image: Thorizon) Thorizon said the investors “are a […]
Ohio plant to produce coolant for molten salt reactors
Kairos Power and Materion Corporation have commissioned a molten salt purification plant, which is expected to produce large amounts of fluoride salt coolant to be used in high-temperature molten salt reactors. The purification plant was designed by Kairos and is located at Materion’s campus in Elmore, Ohio. With TVA as a partner, Kairos Power aims […]
Kairos Commissions Molten Salt Coolant Production Plant for High-Temperature Nuclear Reactors
Kairos Power, an advanced nuclear reactor developer, has commissioned a molten salt purification plant (MSPP) that will produce “large quantities” of a high-purity coolant for reactors based on its fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. The MSPP, one of the largest of its kind, is located at materials supplier Materion Corp.’s campus in Elmore, Ohio. […]
Management of Solid Waste Containing Fluoride—A Review
Abstract Technological and economic development have influenced the amount of post-production waste. Post-industrial waste, generated in the most considerable amount, includes, among others, waste related to the mining, metallurgical, and energy industries. Various non-hazardous or hazardous wastes can be used to produce new construction materials after the “solidification/stabilization” processes. They can be used as admixtures […]
Kairos launches advanced nuclear development consortium
Photo: Bruce nuclear power plant US-based Kairos Power said on 20 April it had assembled leading North American utilities and generating companies to launch an advanced nuclear development consortium named Kairos Power Operations, Manufacturing and Development Alliance (Kairos Power-OMADA) to advance the development of the company’s advanced fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. Current member […]
Rensselaer Receives Funding to Reduce Nuclear Waste, Advance Clean Energy
Rensselaer researchers will focus on developing a solution for effectively managing complex fluoride salt waste streams. iStock Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded $607,505 from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to help develop technologies to resolve the waste and storage challenges associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor fuel cycles. The project […]
DOE seeks proposals for DUF6 project work
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a draft request for proposal for a contract related to the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the DOE’s Paducah and Portsmouth, Ohio sites. The new contract will have an estimated value of $1.89 billion over a period of 10 years and three months. The new […]
Equipment for deconversion arrives at Zheleznogorsk
The first equipment has arrived at a deconversion plant being built by Russia’s Rosatom and France’s Orano in eastern Siberia. The plant is part of a long-term project to manage and make use of depleted uranium stocks in Russia. Inside the forthcoming deconversion plant (Image: TVEL) The facility, called W2-EHZ, is sited at the Electrochemical […]