Industrias Nucleares do Brasil has signed a contract with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Financing Agency for Studies and Projects for the development and testing of critical technologies applicable to Brazil’s planned microreactor. The three year BRL50 million (USD9.1 million) project also brings together research centres, universities and others, including the navy and the...

Plans for the deployment of four ACR-300 small modular reactors and restarting uranium mining and enrichment were among the priorities outlined as Argentina’s National Atomic Energy Commission celebrated its 75th anniversary. Demian Reidel, President of the Argentine Nuclear Council, told the event held at the site of the RA-10 multipurpose reactor: “With the development of the ACR-300,...