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Once again, on 5 and 6 May, the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum (Foro Nuclear) and the University of León organised a course entitled ‘Current situation of nuclear technology’ for students from the School of Mining Engineering and the School of Industrial, Computer and Aerospace Engineering in León.
Large data centres are a reality and even more so now with the rise of artificial intelligence. They require large amounts of energy and this is where nuclear technology comes in with reactors such as the Aalo Pod from Aalo Atomics.
The difference between this technology and traditional methods of radioactive waste management is that it is a cost-effective and sustainable alternative that drastically reduces the volume of radioactive waste and converts it into energy assets.
On 4 and 5 June, leaders of the nuclear industry, representatives of major European industries, senior officials from the European Commission, Parliament, and Member States will meet in Brussels to answer the question ‘How to strengthen Europe's competitiveness’.
The Institute of Corpuscular Physics, through the Meitner Project, has launched the fourth edition of the ‘Express Arte ConCiencia’, a science, gender, and art competition aimed at secondary school students (compulsory and baccalaureate) and training cycles throughout Spain, and whose objective is to highlight the role of women in the world of astrophysics, nuclear physics, and particle physics.
In collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Discovery Channel will soon broadcast a series of short films to inform its more than 40 million viewers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa about nuclear science and technology-based solutions to global problems.
Boron has become the solution to prevent impurities and ash from the fusion of deuterium and tritium from affecting the fusion reaction, decreasing its performance and interacting with the plasma and the mantle lining the inside of the reactor vacuum chamber.
Cuba already works closely with the IAEA through the CEAC. This new centre will strengthen collaboration and study, using nuclear and isotopic techniques, marine-coastal ecosystems, harmful algal blooms, ocean acidification and carbon sequestration in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
The advance of AI and its need for large data centres brings with it a serious energy problem for companies. For this reason, Google has reached an agreement with Kairos Power to build seven Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by 2030.
Microsoft has signed its largest power purchase agreement to date with Constellation Energy to reactivate the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, which has been shut down since 2019. The reason is to supply the 835 MW of carbon-free electricity for 20 years to power its artificial intelligence data centres.
Holtec International has requested the reactivation of the Palisades nuclear power plant after being closed in 2022 and after 51 years of operation. The regulatory body is expected to make a decision in August 2025.
La sede del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) ha celebrado del 8 al 12 de julio en Viena la reunión “Advancing the Global Monitoring of Marine Plastic Pollution under the IAEA NUTEC Plastics Initiative”, que ha contado con la participación de representantes de 63 países, entre ellos Foro Nuclear.