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Small modular reactors: Not all that glows is gold
19 Aug 2024 06:22 GMT
… high temperature gas cooled reactor), and the nuclear power plants soon to become reality … and rapid construction.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a … more years, finally closing its SuperPhenix in 1998 and Phenix in …
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India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Moves Closer to Criticality
02 Aug 2024 16:19 GMT
… heavy-water reactors (PHWRs) and light-water reactors (LWRs) … next to the Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam. The effort … ,250-MWe commercial prototype Superphenix ran from 1985 to … 800 fast neutron reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear plant with …
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Long-Awaited Milestone: Fuel Loading Begins at India’s Prototype Fast Nuclear Reactor
02 Apr 2024 11:39 GMT
… 1,250-MWe commercial prototype Superphenix, which ran from 1985 to … are comparable to other nuclear and conventional power plants,” it said.
Along with … ). Two boiling water reactors (BWRs) at Tarapur Atomic Power Station in Maharashtra state and …
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Nuclear industry wants Canada to lift ban on reprocessing plutonium, despite proliferation risks
11 Mar 2024 14:38 GMT
… bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency sets 8 … operating nuclear power station in the world, the eight-reactor Bruce … Superphénix, the conversion of a German breeder reactor … operating CANDU reactors, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, and nuclear suppliers— …
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France’s Green cul-de-sac
14 Mar 2025 03:16 GMT
… of the innovative Superphénix reactor called it a “nuclear Auschwitz.”
The decisive … to shut down nuclear power plants — was not true. German reactors could have continued … Astrid reactor. This reactor was a continuation of the shuttered Superphénix, a …
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The POWER Interview: European Group Building Next Generation of Nuclear Reactors
06 Jun 2023 19:21 GMT
… the technology of the Superphénix fast-breeder reactor, which the French government … in fast neutron reactors and worked on the Superphénix. The company’s … first investor in its initial nuclear power plant.
That first effort is the …
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Nuclear power: 'Newcleo is on its way to becoming Europe's best-funded start-up'
21 Mar 2023 21:28 GMT
… French, that of the Superphénix fast-breeder reactor which was abandoned in … conventional power plant. Read more Article réservé à nos abonnés French nuclear watchdog … Alternatives (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA) showcased two …
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Macron’s French nuclear farce
07 Dec 2022 21:18 GMT
… brought a whole atomic entourage with him including … , Dominique Voynet, called Superphénix ‘a stupid financial waste … Heysham 2 and Torness nuclear power plants in the UK, … the existing two-reactor Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland. Indeed …
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EDF building solar park at closed nuclear plant in France
09 May 2022 13:06 GMT
… modules. The Creys-Malville nuclear plant, which was shut … Emiliano Bellini
The Creys-Malville nuclear plant.
Image: I, Yann, … of the 1.24 GW nuclear reactor, Mathieu Ponnet.
The project … of PV in France.
The Superphenix reactor was commissioned in 1986. …
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Putin’s Invasion Challenges Green Aversion to Nuclear Power
17 Mar 2022 09:51 GMT
… than operate zero-carbon atomic reactors. Vice Chancellor Robert … Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant last week, the only time an atomic … (then unfinished) Superphenix fast-breeder reactor near Chambery in … , still opposes large nuclear reactors, but now favors …