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ATM No 68 2025 JUL 09
한수원 핑크수소, 체코에서 꽃피나?
- 한국수력원자력의 핑크 수소 기술력이 체코에서 꽃필 조짐이다.
- 한수원은 체코 국영 연구기관인 UJV-Rez 본사에서 체코 원자력 청정수소(핑크수소) 사업 추진기반연구에 협력한다는 내용의 협약을 맺었다고 8일 밝혔다.
- 핑크수소는 원자로의 폐열을 이용해 수전해한 뒤 얻는 수소다.
- 양 기관은 체코에서 핑크 수소 생산사업을 추진하고자 기술과 법·제도·안전규제·경제적 요건을검토하고 향후 본격적인 수소생산을 위한 최적 입지 선정 및 수요처 개발을 함께 수행한다.
More good news for TerraPower on Kemmerer construction permit
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has whittled down the timeline for reviewing TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Wyoming.
- Announcing a new, more aggressive schedule, the NRC said it aims to complete its review by the end of 2025, eight months earlier than originally planned.
- This is the second time the NRC has shortened its schedule for reviewing the permit application for the proposed Natrium reactor and energy storage system.
Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
- Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
- DOE contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition finished the transfer—moving spent nuclear fuel from older, first-generation vaults to new, second-generation vaults—several months ahead of schedule, according to the DOE.
- The spent fuel, which is from the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant’s Unit 1, was shipped in canisters to INL from Pennsylvania following the reactor's closure in 1974.
- DOE-EM initiated the transfers in 2021 after routine monitoring of the fuel revealed elevated hydrogen levels in the first-generation vaults, raising concerns about potential corrosion to the fuel canisters.