October 2022

Nuclear Reactors 1082 - Westinghouse Awarded A Grant By U.K. Government For The Development Of Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Reactors

     Westinghouse has been awarded a grant by the U.K. government to complete a Pre-Front End Engineering Design study for production of tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuels at its Springfields facility in Preston, Lancashire. They will be collaborating with Urenco. The grant came through the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Nuclear Fusion 104 - General Atomics Announces A New Steady State Compact Advanced Tokamak Fusion Pilot Plant Concept

     General Atomics (GA) has just revealed a steady-state, compact advanced tokamak Fusion Pilot Plant (FPP) concept. GA says that the FPP design capitalizes on its innovations and advancements in fusion technology.

Nuclear Reactors 1081 - Finland Company Fortum Is Studying Feasibility Of New Nuclear Builds in Finland and Sweden

     Fortum is a Finnish utility company. They have just launched a two-year feasibility study to review the prerequisites for constructing new commercial nuclear reactors in Finland and Sweden. Both small modular reactors (SMRs) and conventional big reactors will be included in the study.

Nuclear Weapons 801 - Russian And The Claim Of A Ukranian Dirty Bomb - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     On October 23rd, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said he had recently held phone talks with France’s defense minister Sébastien Lecornu, Turkey’s Hulusi Akar, and Britain’s Ben Wallace. During the talks, Shoigu expressed “concerns over the alleged possible use of a ‘dirty bomb’ by Ukraine”.

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