October 2023

Nuclear Reactors 1280 - The U.K. Has Awarded Four Companies About Five Billion Dollars To Design And Construct Nuclear Powered Submarines For Australia

     The U.K. has awarded three U.K. companies a four billion nine hundred-million-dollar contract to design and construct a nuclear-power attack submarine as part of the country’s AUKUS program with Australia and the U.S.

Radioactive Waste 921 - The U.K. Has Dropped One Of Four Possible Sites For A Geological Repository For Radioactive Waste

     Allerdale is one of four locations in the U.K. that were being evaluated for siting a geological disposal repository for spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste. It has just been announced by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) that Allerdale has been removed from the list of possible sites because of limited suitable geology.

Nuclear Reactors 1279 - Kazatomprom Is Increasing Its Production Of Uranium

     Kazatomprom is a uranium producer in Kazakhstan. The Kazatomprom board recently approved a strategy to increase production volumes in 2025. It will return to a one hundred percent level relative to its subsoil use agreements for the first time since 2018. This will add up to six thousand tons of uranium to the anticipated global primary supply.

Nuclear Fusion 49 - General Atomics, Columbia University And The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Are Working On Plasma Instabilities In Tokamaks

     Researchers under the direction Chang Liu of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a promising approach to mitigating damaging runaway electrons created by plasma disruptions in tokamak fusion reactors. This approach harnesses a unique type of plasma waves that bears the name of astrophysicists Hannes Alfvén, a 1970 Nobel laureate.

3140 - Nuclear Weapons 831 - South Korea Told North Korea That If It Used Nuclear Weapons South Korea Would Destroy The North Korean Regime

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     South Korea (S.K.) has warned North Korea (N.K.) that it would seek to terminate the Kim Jong Un regime if nuclear weapons were used in practice. S.K. called N.K’s nuclear intimidation a “grave challenge” to the international community.

Radioactive Waste 920 - Finland Is Working on Licensing For Underground Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository

     Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) reported that its review of Posiva Oy’s operating license application for the world’s first spent nuclear fuel disposal facility is taking longer than expected. It will not be completed by the end of 2023 as planned.

Nuclear Reactors 1278 - U.K. Will Choose A Site For New Nuclear Builds In The Near Future

     Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (U.K.). He says that Wylfa, on Anglesey, will be named as one of the preferred sites for a new nuclear power station within months. He called it a “fantastic site” that could host both small modular reactors (SMRs) and big conventional reactors.

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