Geiger Readings for April 28, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Nuclear Reactors 1379 - Framatone Working On New Fuel For University of Munich Research Reactor.
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to create an industrialization process for the manufacture of monolithic molybdenum-uranium (U-Mo) fuel for the TUM’s FRM II research reactor. Framatome said that this low-enriched fuel will benefit from the highest uranium fuel density ever loaded into a European research reactor.
Geiger Readings for April 27, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 61 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 126 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1378 - Holtec and Energoatom Collaborating on Small Modular Reactors Manufacturing In Ukraine.
Energoatom and Holtec just signed an agreement to collaborate on SMR manufacturing facilities.
The collaboration agreement provides for the creation in Ukraine of manufacturing capabilities for components for small modular reactors (SMRs), plus storage and transportation systems for spent nuclear fuel.
Geiger Readings for April 26, 2024
Latitude 47.704656 Longitude -122.318745
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 156 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 152 nanosieverts per hour
Nuclear Reactors 1377 - Roll-Royce Seeking Faster Licensing For Small Modular Reactors - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Rafael Grossi is director-general of the IAEA. “For this business model to succeed, we need regulatory approaches to adapt to a new circumstance. We cannot afford the luxury of these regulatory marathons lasting five, six, seven years.”