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1327 views DOE ARDP Program Awards $20 million for Advanced Reactor Concepts BWXT to Start $106.6 Million Microreactor Design Project Battelle Energy Alliance and NASA Seek Private Industry Partners to Build Nuclear Power Solutions for Moon Bases Russia’s Roscosmos Starts Development of Nuclear-Powered Space Tug for Flights to Moon, Jupiter, Venus Japanese Power Companies Line Up for Use of MOX Fuel (NucNet) The Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPC) of Japan, which includes 11 operato...

23 December 2020 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced USD20 million in awards for the third of three programmes under its new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy has selected three teams to receive FY2020 funding for the ARDP’s Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) programme. DOE expects to invest about USD600 million over the next seven years in ARDP, which aims to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in t...

Rosatom to build small-scale land-based Arctic nuclear plant by 2028 Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said Thursday that it has reached another milestone in its plans to build a small-scale land-based nuclear plant near the community of Ust-Kuyga in the eastern Russian Arctic. December 25, 2020, By Levon Sevunts  Rosatom said it has reached an agreement with the government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) setting out parameters for pricing energy that will be produced by the nuclea...

23 Decemb er 2020 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced USD20 million in awards for the third of three programmes under its new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy has selected three teams to receive FY2020 funding for the ARDP’s Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) programme.   DOE expects to invest about USD600 million over the next seven years in ARDP, which aims to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors ...

DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program awards $30M in initial funding for risk reduction projects The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $30 million in initial funding to five teams for projects under one of three programs—Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration—in the new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). The awards are cost-shared partnerships with industry, and companies were chosen through a funding opportunity announcement issued in May 2020. ARDP is designed to...

23 December 2020 Share The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced USD20 million in awards for the third of three programmes under its new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). DOEs Office of Nuclear Energy has selected three teams to receive FY2020 funding for the ARDPs Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) programme. (Image: DOE) DOE expects to invest about USD600 million over the next seven years in ARDP, which aims to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear ...

917 views DOE Grants $30M to Five US Firms for Advanced Nuclear Reactor Designs Canada Outlines Next Steps for Progress on Small Modular Reactor Technology Will UK Govt Take a £20bn Equity Stake in Sizewell? Talks with EDF could lead to energy customers to be charged for construction costs as the Sizewell reactors are being built (NucNet) The UK government has reignited a contentious debate over over the country’s nuclear energy ambitions by agreeing to restart talks with EDF over plans to b...

DOE Awards Go To Risk Reduction Projects The Department of Energys Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) said Tuesday it had selected five teams to receive $30 million in FY20 funding for Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration projects. The awards are cost-shared partnerships with industry, and companies were chosen through a funding opportunity announcement issued in May 2020. ARDP is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the United States. DOE expects to...