US nuclear weapon testing at Bikini Atoll, the Marshall Islands, 1946

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads

"GE Vernova and Hitachi Ltd have entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore opportunities to deploy the BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Southeast Asia."

#Nuclear #News

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ge-vernova-hitachi-explore-southeast-asia-market-for-bwrx-300

GE Vernova, Hitachi explore Southeast Asia market for BWRX-300

GE Vernova and Hitachi Ltd have entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore opportunities to deploy the BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Southeast Asia.  ;

World Nuclear News
N.B. Power spending heavily on hired guns to fix its Lepreau problem
N.B. Power's ongoing rate hearing has been told that plans to spend $88.4 million over three years on outside experts to help fix chronic reliability problems at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station might not show results immediately but will pay off eventually.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-lepreau-problem-spending-9.7132390?cmp=rss
Poland's nuclear research centre targeted by cyberattack

Poland's National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) says hackers targeted its IT infrastructure, but the attack was detected and blocked before causing any impact.

BleepingComputer

A very nice video by #Germany DW which explains the popular myths about #nuclear fuel management.

https://video.echelon.pl/w/wsYUFCshUjizmqntJ3DVF5

Firstly, it debunks the popular myth that it’s “nuclear waste” - in reality, what you pull out of reactor is 95% reusable fuel, which is reprocessed back into fuel in some countries. Other countries don’t reprocess simply because freshly mined uranium is… too cheap and too abundant globally. Reprocessing especially targets plutonium, which is more valuable nuclear fuel than uranium. Only the remaining 5% is actual waste - isotopes, that are useless from energy point of view and these need to be actually stored underground.

Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it?

PeerTube

Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it?

https://video.echelon.pl/w/wsYUFCshUjizmqntJ3DVF5

Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it?

PeerTube

Why it matters:

Pushing nuclear as a tech demo while skipping infrastructure, regulation and community buy-in risks expensive failures and wasted taxpayer cash. This is about power on the grid, not propaganda.

#Nuclear #Energy #DOE #Utah

"The first VVER-TOI unit at the Kursk II Nuclear Power Plant in Russia has had its power increased to 100% as its commissioning process continues."

#Nuclear #News

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-new-kursk-unit-reaches-full-power

First new Kursk unit reaches full power

The first VVER-TOI unit at the Kursk II Nuclear Power Plant in Russia has had its power increased to 100% as its commissioning process continues.  ;

World Nuclear News

Is #Macron Greenlighting a New #US-Led #Nuclear #Arms Race? https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=590573

As the global arms control regime collapses, France plans to expand and Europeanize its nuclear arsenal.

Is Macron Greenlighting a New US-Led Nuclear Arms Race?

As the global arms control regime collapses, France plans to expand and Europeanize its nuclear arsenal.

The Nation