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is a cost-effective solution to manage
tritium and eliminate the release of
tritiated water to the environment. The
new system will use a full-scale catalytic
exchange column, the heart of Kurion’s
technology.
Kurion is currently in discussions
with a number of customers domestically
and abroad to introduce its mature MDS
technology to provide nuclear operators
a new tool to manage tritium removal.
Interest ranges across both operating and
decommissioning plants.
Contact: Kurion, Inc., telephone:
Joint Development
Agreement
Lightbridge Corporation
, a U.S.
nuclear fuel technology company,
has entered into a Joint Development
Agreement (JDA) with AREVA NP.
Under the JDA, Lightbridge and
AREVA NP will work together to assess
establishing a joint venture in 2016 to
develop, manufacture and commercialize
fuel assemblies based on Lightbridge’s
next generation metallic nuclear fuel
technology. The parties will share the cost
of the work scope to be performed under
the JDA, with AREVA NP contributing
in-kind for its share of the costs.
As part of the definitive joint
venture agreements based on successful
completion of the scope of work under
the JDA, Lightbridge and AREVA NP
will agree on: (1) terms and conditions
to complete the remaining scope of work
to demonstrate and commercialize the
fuel assemblies based on Lightbridge’s
metallic nuclear fuel, and (2) a
technology licensing arrangement and
other agreements needed to form and
operate the joint venture company.
The companies have agreed to work
exclusively together in the area covered
by the JDA, which will remain in force
until the formation of the joint venture or
December 31, 2016 at the latest.
Contact: DavidWaldman, Crescendo
Communications, LLC, telephone: (855)
379-9900, email:
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Cape and Duynefontein in the Western
Cape to the country’s National Nuclear
Regulator (NNR).
Both applications mentioned the
applicant’s intention to construct and
operate “multiple nuclear installations
(power reactors) and associated auxiliary
nuclear installations of a plant type and
technology not yet identified,” the NNR
said.
The regulator will now review the
applications to determine their level of
compliance with relevant regulations.
The NNR will then decide whether the
applications should be accepted for
further technical assessments and public
comment, or rejected and deferred to the
applicant.
SouthAfrica’s Department of Energy
received cabinet approval in December
2015 to issue a request for proposals
(RFP) for the construction of the 9.6 GWe
of new nuclear capacity called for under
the country’s energy policy. Department
of Energy director general Thabane Zulu
said that the RFP will be issued soon.
Intergovernmental agreements have been
signed with several vendor countries that
have expressed interest in the nuclear new
build program, but as yet no technology
has been selected.
Once a nuclear vendor has been
decided upon, then a nuclear installation
license application will be initiated,
Eskom said.
Contact:
World Nuclear News
,
website:
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Shidaowan
The first of two reactor pressure
vessels for the demonstration HTR-PM
high-temperature gas-cooled reactor
unit under construction at Shidaowan
in China’s Shandong province has been
delivered to the construction site.
The component - about 25 meters
(82.02 ft) in height and weighing
about 700 tonnes - was manufactured
by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power
Equipment. It successfully completed
factory acceptance on February 29,
2016 and was dispatched from the
manufacturing plant on March 2, 2016.
The pressure vessel arrived at the
Shidaowan site on March 10, 2016.
The company said it sent the project
leader and supervision staff to supervise
the entire manufacturing process of the
reactor vessel, which it claims is the
world’s largest and heaviest.
Work began on the demonstration
HTR-PM unit - which features two
small reactors and a turbine - at China
Huaneng’s Shidaowan site in December
2012. China Huaneng is the lead
organization in the consortium to build
the demonstration units together with
China Nuclear Engineering Corporation
(CNEC) and Tsinghua University’s
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy
Technology, which is the research and
development leader. Chinergy, a joint
venture of Tsinghua and CNEC, is the
main contractor for the nuclear island.
The demonstration plant’s twin
HTR-PM reactors will drive a single
210 MWe turbine. It is expected to start
commercial operation in late 2017.
A proposal to construct two 600
MWe HTR plants - each featuring
three twin reactor and turbine units - at
Ruijin city in China’s Jiangxi province
passed a preliminary feasibility review
in early 2015. The design of the Ruijin
HTRs is based on the smaller Shidaowan
demonstration HTR-PM. Construction
of the Ruijin reactors is expected to start
next year, with grid connection in 2021.
Contact:
World Nuclear News
,
website:
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