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 E-Mail End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps are among several electrical and electronic products containing critical raw materials (CRMs), the recycling of which should be made law, says a new UN-backed report funded by the EU. A mandatory, legal requirement to recycle and reuse CRMs in select e-waste categories is needed to safeguard from supply disruptions elements essential to manufacture...

On Friday, May 7, 2021, the Southern California Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants USA (imcusa.org) presents Stepping Up Your International Game: A Webinar for Consultants and Businesses. The program takes place during the Southern California World Trade week in Los Angeles. Three IMC SoCal international business consultants will

29 April 2021 Share The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has designated Ontario Tech University as a Collaborating Centre to support IAEA activities on advanced nuclear power technology, including small modular reactors (SMRs), as well as the non‑electric applications of nuclear energy. The institution is the first in Canada to receive such a designation. Heidi Hulan, Canadas ambassador to Austria, and Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA deputy director general, at the signing of the IAEA Collab...

Storage Facility Licensed In Ukraine International Atomic Energy Agency inspection teams are in Ukraine this week reviewing design safety of spent nuclear fuel facilities holding material from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The international body is reviewing design safety and checking for undeclared nuclear material, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU). Hot tests were completed for the SNF-2 facility in December 2020. It is designed to accommodate in e...

Nuclear energy, an option for Vietnam in the long run: experts By Viet Anh  &nbspApril 25, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7 Cooling towers and high-tension electrical power lines are seen near the Golfech nuclear plant on the border of the Garonne River between Agen and Toulouse, France, August 29, 2019. Photo by Reuters/Regis Duvignau. Clean and reliable nuclear energy could help Vietnam meet its growing power demand over the long term and ensure its development is not derailed, experts say. Prof Shel...

Karachi Unit 3 Completes Cold Pressure Tests The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said that cold pressure testing had been successfully conducted at the Karachi Unit 3 reactor in Pakistan, a milestone that was witnessed by the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). CNNC called the Hualong 1000 reactor the country’s “national business card,” calling attention to the high hopes the model will become a fully realized export commodity....

By Ndubuisi Francis The nation’s wholesale development finance institution, Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), has announced the appointment of Mrs. Ijeoma Ozulumba and Mr. Kyari Abba Kyari as Executive Director and Independent Non-Executive Director respectively, on the board of the bank. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Shehu Yahaya, who made the disclosure, noted that the appointment of Ozulumba and Kyari would further strengthen DBN’s vision to provide adequate and sustainabl...

Sellafield unveils £9 million revamp of nuclear laboratories 21/04/2021 Aquila Nuclear Engineering has been selected by the Sellafield Programme and Project Partners (PPP) to support the design and build of replacement nuclear laboratories Sellafield has unveiled a £9m revamp of its nuclear laboratories which it hopes will “create a platform to invest in younger engineers”. Aquila Nuclear Engineering has been selected by the Sellafield Programme and Project Partners (PPP) to support t...

April 19, 2021 Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Team Receives $2.4 Million ARPA-E Award The team in the Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Laboratory (EMREL), led by Professor Lance Snead as the Principal Investigator (PI) and co-PI’s, Professor Jason Trelewicz and Professor David Sprouster, has been awarded $2.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) program, an agency tasked with promoting and fund...

TROY, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko announced a set of science grants totaling $1,364,064 being awarded to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to fund cutting-edge research at the institution including fiber networks and studies on lead-contaminated soil and factors impacting aquatic systems. The grants will be administered through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF was established by Congress in 1950 as an independent federal agency and works to develop cutting-edge technologies...