The US Navy has selected Radiant's Kaleidos microreactor for deployment at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana.  ;

The Nuclear Company has outlined plans for an energy campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, which could feature up to six AP1000 reactors - this would make its 6.6 GW capacity larger than any current nuclear power plant in the USA.  ;

Westinghouse has announced a USD1 billion investment in the first new fleet-scale nuclear fuel factory to be built in the USA in more than 50 years, at the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina.  ;

An International Atomic Energy Agency mission to the United Arab Emirates has said that effective action was taken following the loss of off-site power to Barakah Nuclear Power Plant's unit 3 following a drone strike in May which caused a fire in a generator located outside the inner perimeter of the plant.  ;

Southeast Asian countries are taking a pragmatic look at nuclear power as they seek to meet rapidly growing electricity demand, strengthen energy security and diversify their power generation mix, delegates heard at the World Nuclear Supply Chain conference in Manila.  ;

Progress on the Dukovany new nuclear project is continuing on schedule, but South Korea has concerns about the potential impact of the European Union's proposed Industrial Accelerator Act on non-member countries participating in the EU's nuclear power market.  ;

AtkinsRéalis Group, Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative and the State of Indiana in the US are to explore a potential project featuring up to eight Candu nuclear power units, with a combined 6 GW capacity.  ;

Aura Energy Limited says it is targeting a final investment decision by the end of the year for the Tiris uranium project in Mauritania as a newly released bankable feasibility study confirms the project's economics. But Deep Yellow says current equity market conditions don't support a final investment decision for its Tumas project in Namibia during the current quarter.  ;

Ruim één op de tien Nederlanders zou zich ernstig zorgen maken over mogelijke schadelijke gevolgen van het wonen in de buurt van een kerncentrale. Een licht hoger aantal in geval van het wonen bij een opslag van radio­actief afval. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van het RIVM.

The Philippines is working to establish the policy, regulatory and commercial foundations for its first nuclear power project, with a target of 1.2 GW of capacity by 2032 and a longer-term ambition to reach 4.8 GW by 2050, the World Nuclear Supply Chain conference in Manila heard.  ;

Electricity generated by floating nuclear power plants will be provided to an East Indonesian island, according to an agreement signed by Rosatom and Indonesian company PT Pembangkit Listrik Nuklir.  ;

Oklo says the Groves-2 Forge isotope production and processing pilot facility will build on the deployment of its Groves Isotope Test Reactor, which reached criticality earlier this year.  ;

US utility American Electric Power and X-energy have signed a joint development agreement to evaluate a potential 960 MW project at a former coal plant site in Sullivan County, Indiana.  ;

A joint venture between ASP Isotopes Inc subsidiary Quantum Leap Energy and South African state-owned nuclear energy corporation Necsa will develop, finance, build and operate a test bench and commercial-scale facility for the production of high-assay low-enriched uranium at Necsa's Pelindaba site.  ;

Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon and Dutch research and technology organisation TNO have launched a materials and corrosion programme to generate the experimental data and predictive models required to qualify materials for molten salt reactors.  ;

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has signed an agreement with Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik to manage used nuclear fuel from the former research reactors at Halden and Kjeller.  ;

Technical studies have begun onsite for Kakrapar units 5 and 6, two 700 MWe reactors planned for construction in Gujarat; India's Nuclear Fuels Complex is making steam generator tubes to support the fleet mode construction project; and India's small modular reactor project has reached a design milestone.  ;

Slovakia's newest nuclear power unit, Mochovce 4, has been connected and started supplying its first electricity to the grid.  ;

**Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is rolling out with some important security fixes.** Now, I don’t tend to cover Firefox point releases as mainly ship minor fixes for things the majority of users won’t have noticed were wrong in the first place. The Firefox 158.0.1 update is more ‘meaty’ than usual fare. Among the security advisories this update covers are eight intermediate certificates belonging to the eMudhra certificate authority, whose private keys were compromised. Anyone holding those keys could issue certificates that browsers accept as genuine for any website. If they can also intercept a user’s connection, they could impersonate the site and read or alter the traffic. Most Firefox users were already protected as Mozilla revoked the certificates on 17 October (within hours of being notified) using OneCRL, which works in the background. Even so, Firefox 158.0.1 bundles the revocation into this update. Users whose network policies or other settings disable OneCRL updates get covered when upgrading to this release. Bug fixes in this build resolve the usual grab-bag of issues, including: * **Websites jumping to the top of the page during text selection** * **Built-in VPN unable to activate for some users** * **Firefox windows on the wrong monitor on Linux multi-monitor setups** * **Some JPEG XL format showing semi-transparent areas too dark** The update is already live. If you use Firefox on Windows or macOS, or run the Linux binary builds, you’ll get the update in-app next time you run it. If Firefox is installed from a repo or alternative store, you’ll need to install it manually. Ubuntu users running the Firefox Snap will receive this update automatically in the background, and it will apply on the next app restart. (via soeren-hentzschel.at)

ASEAN's rising electricity demand and decarbonisation goals are driving interest in small modular reactors, but fragmented national regulatory frameworks, limited expertise and financing uncertainty could delay their deployment, write Ming Tan and Stephanie Liaw of engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald.  ;

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Installation of the unit's 480 calandria tubes was completed faster than at Bruce 3 as the team carrying out the Major Component Replacement project continues to set new records for CANDU refurbishment.  ;

In een video op Instagram lijkt de man 'This is me' te zeggen, wijzend naar gemaskerde jihadisten op een televisie. De NOS stelt nu vast dat de man iets anders zei.

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has delivered a further three replacement steam generators to EDF. They are scheduled to be installed in unit 2 of its Cruas nuclear power plant in southeastern France.  ;

Innovative nuclear energy company Newcleo has inaugurated its EUR10 million (USD11 million) advanced nuclear fuel engineering, testing and training centre located in Chusclan, in the Gard department in southern France.  ;

Poland's SGE and ZE Pak have agreed to establish a joint venture to develop a nuclear power plant in Pątnów which will feature up to six BWRX-300 small modular reactors.  ;

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment aims to achieve first criticality in 2027, with the US Department of Energy approving cost-shared funding under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.  ;

Westinghouse has placed conditional purchase orders for safety-related modules with four Polish companies, a week after being commissioned to begin ordering long-lead items for the first unit of Poland's planned first nuclear power plant.  ;

Westinghouse has placed conditional purchase orders for safety-related modules with four Polish companies, a week after being commissioned to begin ordering long-lead items for the first unit of Poland's planned first nuclear power plant.  ;