Nuclear News Ticker - March 01, 2021

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AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 01.03.2021

The Crucea-Botusana uranium mine (the last one in Romania) will be closed in 2021, according to government plans.

The launch of the T-15MD tokamak, created at the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", may take place as early as April.

The JSC OKB GIDROPRESS shipped expanded graphite gaskets (918 pieces) for the Kola NPP.

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Other news:

All spent fuel was unloading from SFP-3 at Fukushima Daiichi NPP

SFP-3 and SFP-4 are free of fuel now.

Rosatom will manufacture unique equipment for the BREST-OD-300 power unit

Installation of the main equipment should be completed in 2025.

Power unit 1 of Belarus NPP started operation at 100% capacity

It is the main event at the stage of trial operation.

Hero of the day

Nuclear fuel elements for Chinese HTGR shipped

The shipment of 78,000 spherical fuel elements to the demonstration plant is part of an initial delivery of 870,000 spherical fuel elements, which are expected to be put into the reactor in April.

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