Search Results for naval reactorstag:fissilematerials.org,2024:/cgi-bin/mt//feed/naval reactors2024-03-28T21:31:33ZMovable Type 6.3.632132US study of reactor and fuel types to enable naval reactors to shift from HEU fueltag:fissilematerials.org,2020:/blog//13.33772020-04-10T09:52:37Z2021-08-31T14:50:20ZAdmin
Alan Kuperman, Frank von Hippel In February 2020, the US Department of Energy's office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation released its report, Initial Evaluation of Fuel-Reactor Concepts for Advanced LEU Fuel Development, a screening study for potential fuel and reactor types...
Five controversial fissile-material-related items in the Department of Energy's FY2021 Budget Requesttag:fissilematerials.org,2020:/blog//13.33732020-03-07T20:52:50Z2021-08-31T14:50:20ZAdmin
Frank N. von Hippel The U.S. Department of Energy published its Congressional Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021. The items below appear in Volume 1, which covers nuclear weapon activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation and naval reactors, and Volume 3, Part...
US debates its future needs for enriched uranium for military and other purposestag:fissilematerials.org,2020:/blog//13.33652020-01-06T15:17:40Z2021-08-31T14:50:19ZAdmin
Frank von Hippel The US Congress is raising questions about Department of Energy plans for uranium enrichment for military and civilian purposes and of the role of Centrus, a private company which formerly was the US Enrichment Corporation (USEC). USEC...
Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory tag:fissilematerials.org,2019:/blog//13.33552019-10-14T13:27:22Z2021-09-04T13:57:36ZAdmin
Under an agreement between the State of Idaho and the U.S. government, reached in 1995, U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Navy provide the state with information about spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory. The table below...
U.S. shift away from HEU-fueled naval nuclear reactors could begin in the 2040stag:fissilematerials.org,2019:/blog//13.33462019-06-26T22:01:09Z2021-08-31T14:50:17ZAdmin
by Frank N von Hippel If the US is to end its current practice of using weapon-grade highly-enriched uranium (HEU) to fuel its nuclear submarines, then the design of the next generation of US attack submarines needs to preserve the...
U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratorytag:fissilematerials.org,2018:/blog//13.33202018-12-11T13:58:15Z2021-09-04T13:56:31ZAdmin
Under an agreement between the State of Idaho and the U.S. government, reached in 1995, U.S. Navy provides the state with information about naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory. The table below contains the annual data...
Russia is working on lifetime cores of naval reactorstag:fissilematerials.org,2018:/blog//13.33032018-08-08T16:25:55Z2021-08-31T14:50:15ZAdmin
According to the 2017 Annual Report of the Afrikantov Design Bureau (OKBM), it is working on developing life-time cores for Russia's nuclear submarines. Below is a translated excerpt from a section of the report that describes these projects (p. 84)....
Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratorytag:fissilematerials.org,2018:/blog//13.33222018-06-24T16:27:31Z2018-12-11T16:29:23ZAdmin
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will receive $15 million for a pilot project that will recycle naval spent fuel to produce high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU, uranium enriched to under 20% U-235) for advanced research reactors....
Declaring more U.S. weapon-grade uranium excess could delay the need to build a new national enrichment planttag:fissilematerials.org,2018:/blog//13.32812018-04-04T10:37:02Z2021-08-31T14:50:14ZAdmin
Frank von Hippel The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched an initiative to build and begin operating by 2038 a new small-capacity national military uranium enrichment plant. Its initial mission would be to produce low-enriched uranium (LEU) to fuel...
Accident said to damage India's nuclear-powered submarinetag:fissilematerials.org,2018:/blog//13.32672018-01-08T12:52:39Z2021-08-31T14:50:13ZAdmin
According to a report, India's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant, suffered major damage in an accident that happened about ten months ago. According to the report, the damage was caused by the water that "rushed in as a hatch...
Fissile material issues in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018tag:fissilematerials.org,2017:/blog//13.32602017-12-17T08:52:32Z2021-08-31T14:50:13ZAdmin
by Frank von Hippel The U.S. government's fiscal year 2018 of began on 1 October but the Senate and House Armed Services Committees only completed on 9 November 2017 their work on the policy framework relating to military activities in...
India launches its second nuclear-powered submarinetag:fissilematerials.org,2017:/blog//13.32682017-12-10T12:57:08Z2021-08-31T14:50:13ZAdmin
According to a report in India Today, India's second indigenous nuclear powered submarine, INS Arighat, was launched on 19 November 2017 in a ceremony at the Ship Building Centre in Visakhapatnam. Arighat, also known as S2, is built as part...
Chinese naval reactorstag:fissilematerials.org,2017:/blog//13.32222017-05-10T09:46:01Z2021-08-31T08:18:35ZAdmin
Hui Zhang On April 25, 2017 China put on public display the Changzheng-1, its first Type 091 Han-class nuclear powered attack submarine. It entered service in 1974 and was decommissioned in 2013. China launched its nuclear-powered submarine program in 1958,...
Russia decommissioned one of its HEU facilitiestag:fissilematerials.org,2017:/blog//13.32202017-04-18T13:54:41Z2021-08-31T08:18:14ZAdmin
Russian State Corporation Rosatom reported removing all spent fuel from one of the facilities at the Scientific Research Technological Institute (NITI) in Sosnovy Bor. The fuel was shipped to the RT-1 reprocessing plant at the NPO Mayak, Ozersk. The transfer...
U.S. Department of Energy seeks domestic enrichment capabilitytag:fissilematerials.org,2017:/blog//13.32182017-03-16T16:24:05Z2017-08-20T09:37:19ZAdmin
According to the Request for Information DE-SOL-0008552 posted by the Department of Energy, the department seeks to establish domestic enrichment capability that would allow it to have access to "unobligated and unencumbered" enriched uranium that could be used in tritium...
India's first nuclear submarine accepted for servicetag:fissilematerials.org,2016:/blog//13.31952016-10-19T08:15:12Z2021-08-31T14:50:10ZAdmin
According to reports in the Indian press, India's first indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant, was commissioned into service in August 2016. The submarine was in sea trials since December 2014. The 83 MW pressurized-water reactor that powers the submarine,...
A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratorytag:fissilematerials.org,2016:/blog//13.33212016-10-08T16:19:17Z2018-12-11T16:20:20ZAdmin
U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Navy Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP) are planning to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facilities at the Idaho National Laboratory. The project, known as the Recapitalization of Infrastructure Supporting Naval Spent Nuclear Fuel...
U.S. Office of Naval Reactors outlines $1 billion R&D plan for development of LEU fueltag:fissilematerials.org,2016:/blog//13.31702016-08-14T14:08:35Z2021-08-31T14:50:08ZAdmin
Frank von Hippel and Sébastien Philippe A July 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors Conceptual Research and Development Plan for Low-Enriched Uranium Naval Fuel (PDF), sketches out a $1 billion, 15-year plan to develop,...
United States opens to the possibility of using LEU in its future naval reactorstag:fissilematerials.org,2014:/new/blog//13.29762014-04-09T20:55:32Z2021-08-31T14:49:58ZAdmin
By Frank von Hippel In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors (ONR) submitted to Congress a Report on Low Enriched Uranium for Naval Reactor Cores (PDF). The contrast to its 1995 Report on Use of...
Russia to return nuclear-powered container ship to servicetag:fissilematerials.org,2013:/new/blog//13.29552013-12-23T08:57:37Z2016-07-29T11:46:03ZAdmin
Russia is expected to return its nuclear-powered container ship, Sevmorput, to service in 2016. The earlier plan was to decommission the ship, which was withdrawn from service in 2012, in 2020-2021, after a "cold storage" period. According to the new...
India activated its first nuclear submarine reactortag:fissilematerials.org,2013:/new/blog//13.29352013-08-10T14:11:23Z2021-08-31T14:49:56ZAdmin
As reported in the Indian press, on August 10, 2013 the reactor on board of India's nuclear-powered submarine, INS Arihant, reached criticality at 1:20am. The reactor is described as a pressurized water reactor with a power of about 80 MW....
Brazil formally initiates its nuclear-powered submarine projecttag:fissilematerials.org,2012:/new/blog//13.28782012-07-06T20:36:46Z2021-08-31T14:49:53ZAdmin
In a ceremony held at the Navy Technological Center in São Paulo on July 6, 2012 Brazil initiated its Nuclear-Powered Submarine Project. The nuclear submarine project is one of the reasons Brazil has been justifying development of a domestic uranium...
Russia is set to produce new highly-enriched uraniumtag:fissilematerials.org,2012:/new/blog//13.28652012-06-01T16:45:59Z2021-08-31T14:49:52ZAdmin
Rosatom's TVEL company announced the plan to open production of highly-enriched uranium at the Electrochemical Plant in Zelenogorsk. The head of the company, Yuri Olenin, was quoted as saying that "the need to produce HEU is linked to a number...
Austria and Norway present a working paper on HEU minimizationtag:fissilematerials.org,2012:/new/blog//13.28592012-05-09T20:24:37Z2021-08-31T14:49:52ZAdmin
Austria and Norway published a working paper (PDF file) that summarized the discussions of the Second International Symposium on the Minimization of Highly Enriched Uranium that was held in Vienna on 23-25 January 2012, which Austria and Norway co-hosted together...
Nuclear submarine inducted into Indian Navytag:fissilematerials.org,2012:/new/blog//13.28552012-04-04T15:03:02Z2021-08-31T14:49:52ZAdmin
In a ceremony held at the Ship Building Complex Visakhapatnam, India formally commissioned Russian-built Nerpa submarine, known in India as INS Chakra, into the Indian Navy. The nuclear-powered attack submarine was handed over to India in March 2012....
Russia hands over a nuclear submarine to Indiatag:fissilematerials.org,2012:/new/blog//13.28442012-03-06T08:34:53Z2016-07-29T11:45:55ZAdmin
Russia and India completed transfer of a nuclear attack submarine to the Indian Navy. The K-152 Nerpa submarine of the Project 971/Akula II class was handed over to the Indian crew in December 2011. It reportedly left the shipbuilding plant...
Some details of India's nuclear programtag:fissilematerials.org,2011:/new/blog//13.28272011-11-26T13:27:02Z2022-03-13T16:24:20ZAdmin
Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI), gave an interview to an IBNLive correspondent in which he discussed some aspects of India's nuclear program. Srikumar Banerjee confirmed that the capacity of its enrichment facility at the Rare...
Argentina considers naval reactorstag:fissilematerials.org,2010:/new/blog//13.27102010-06-08T12:33:42Z2016-07-29T11:45:46ZAdmin
According to a report of the World Nuclear News, the Ministry of Defense of Argentina is studying a possibility of using nuclear power on some of its naval vessels. The Ministry of Defense is apparently working with a number of...
U.S. Navy plans for a new class of ballistic-missile submarinestag:fissilematerials.org,2010:/new/blog//13.26082010-01-24T15:51:45Z2016-07-29T11:45:37ZAdmin
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a document The Long-Term Outlook for the U.S. Navy's Fleet, which contains a testimony of Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons, before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on...
U.S. Navy plans for a new class of ballistic-missile submarinestag:fissilematerials.org,2010:/new/blog//13.26082010-01-24T15:51:45Z2016-07-29T11:45:37ZAdmin
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a document The Long-Term Outlook for the U.S. Navy's Fleet, which contains a testimony of Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons, before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on...
Nuclear Fuel Services plant suspends productiontag:fissilematerials.org,2010:/new/blog//13.26262010-01-07T08:15:26Z2016-07-29T11:45:39ZAdmin
Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin, Tennessee shut down its production processes in order "to focus on internal operations and safety". This decision followed a number of incidents at the plant that involved unexpected release of chemical compounds. One such...
Rosatom took control over nuclear icebreakerstag:fissilematerials.org,2008:/new/blog//13.25222008-08-27T09:18:38Z2016-07-29T11:45:31ZAdmin
One of Rosatom's subsidiaries, Atomflot, formally took control over nuclear icebreaker fleet (and auxiliary ships) from the Murmansk Shipping Company. This is probably a positive development - refueling of icebreaker reactors require regular shipments of fresh HEU fuel (see discussion...