As part of the nuclear non-proliferation mission conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (U.S. DOE NNSA), Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) of the L-positioner were carried out in Piacenza, Italy, on May 27–28, 2026, by specialists from the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK) and the U.S. […]
From May 26 to 27, 2026, the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK) hosted a French delegation led by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Kazakhstan, with the participation of specialists from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).The visit was introductory in nature and aimed at […]
From May 18 to 22, 2026, representatives of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) visited the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where the parties discussed current issues related to: Following the meeting, an action plan and implementation timelines were agreed […]
In the period from May 18 to May 20, 2026, a regular technical meeting was held in Kurchatov between CIAE (PRC) and NNC RK specialists. The meeting was devoted to discussing the possibility of conducting experiments on irradiation of fuel rods with promising uranium-nitride and uranium-molybdenum fuels at the IVG.1M research reactor. The CIAE team […]
From April 20 to 24, 2026, in Leiden (the Netherlands), a delegation from the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK) took part in the annual conference of the European Nuclear Society on Research Reactor Fuel Management (RRFM). Background: The RRFM conference has been held annually since 1997 and is now a […]
On April 9, the “Institute of Atomic Energy” branch successfully carried out the startup of the IGR reactor with the experimental device “IMPULSE.” The work was performed as part of a research project aimed at expanding the capabilities of the IGR reactor for conducting irradiation experiments with power reactor fuel under conditions close to limiting […]
From 13 to 15 April 2026, the seventh technical meeting between specialists of JAEA, MUS and NNC RK was held in Kurchatov. The meeting was dedicated to the preparation of documentation for a new contract under the EAGLE-4 experimental program, which is a continuation of long-term research supporting the design of the Generation IV JSFR […]