Congratulations to our research fellow, Iuliia Ipatova, for the 2d place in the Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network (NI YGN) Speaking Competition! NI YGN Speaking Competition is back in 2020. This year\’s competition was held via webinar. And on the 25th of June Iuliia delivered her talk in this event organized by the YGN in […]
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The large-scale event, IYNC2020, held from March 8 to 13 in Sydney, brought together with representatives of the IAEA, Urenco UK Ltd, SMR Nuclear Technologies Pty Ltd, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, the World Nuclear Association, the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the US Department of Energy, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
There is a global effort within the nuclear industry to develop an alternate fission fuel to UO2 that could be safer, more efficient and cheaper to produce. One such alternative is uranium diboride (UB2) owing to its increased uranium density and thermal conductivity over UO2. Before an alternative fuel can be considered as a viable
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