Week 19 of 2023
Three nuclear energy innovation news!
💡 Three nuclear energy innovation news this week!
🌟 Helion (US) announces the world's first power purchase agreement for electricity produced with a nuclear fusion reactor. The contract, signed with Microsoft (US), entails the establishment of a facility by 2028 with a target power generation of 50 MW after a one-year ramp up period. Power marketing and transmission management will be performed by Constellation (US).
🥽 Teletrix - Radiation & Gas Detection Simulators (US) licenses method for ionizing radiation training developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US). It uses simulated radiation data implemented in a gaming platform to create an image of gradient contours that are overlaid on a real-world view through an augmented reality headset. This allows trainees to have a better visceral understanding of how ionizing radiation behaves.
🧽 Researchers from Pusan National University (South Korea) develop develop high-adsorption phosphates for radionuclide cesium ion capture. The later is a harmful component that needs to be removed from radioactive wastewater. The new asdorbent has a higher capacity, which significantly reduces the waste volume, and thus also the waste disposal cost.
🎓 Paper of the week: "Primordial helium extracted from the Earth’s core through magnesium oxide exsolution", Nature Geoscience (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01182-7
