Week 21 of 2024

Three nuclear energy innovation news!

⚫ Radiant and Amsted Graphite Materials sign a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at fortifying the US domestic supply chain for nuclear-grade graphite. Key objectives include collaborative efforts in policy advocacy, exploration of public-private partnerships with the U.S. government, and participation in testing and R&D programs with universities and government laboratories.

🔭 Photonis, part of Exosens (FR), signs a first contract with newcleo to define the best fitted customized solution for the nuclear instrumentation of innovative lead-cooled fast reactors. The firm is a market-leading global provider of electro-optic solutions used in the detection and amplification of photons, ions, electrons, and neutrons,

⛽ The UK Atomic Energy Authority appoints engineering firm AtkinsRéalis (CA) to deliver the detailed design of the Isotope Separation System. It will form part of the Hydrogen-3 Advanced Technology (H3AT) facility, a world-first tritium fuel cycle research facility to include a prototype-scale process plant and experimental platform, which is a scaled version of the design for ITER Organization.

👨‍🎓 Paper of the week: "Precision spectroscopy and laser-cooling scheme of a radium-containing molecule", Nature Physics (2024).

👉 First precision measurements of radium monofluoride.

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