STUK Has Granted TVO The Permission For Startup Olkiluoto-3 The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland (STUK) has granted Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) the permission for making the reactor critical and conducting low power tests at Olkiluoto-3. The nuclear reaction in the OL3 EPR plant unit’s reactor will be initiated for the first time during…
Nuclear Society of Slovenia Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary This month the Nuclear Society of Slovenia, one of the 21 ENS Member Societies, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its foundation. Since December 1991, the Society gathers nuclear professionals, researchers, and professors from all over Slovenia, contributing to supporting the country’s nuclear sector, its projects, and the…
Framatome and Exelon Signed A MoU To Strengthen Cobalt-60 Production Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) and Exelon Generation recently announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding to develop solutions to produce Cobalt-60 in Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) operated by Exelon Generation in the US. Cobalt-60 is a radioisotope produced in nuclear reactors out of natural…
Rosatom Upgraded The World’s Largest Critical Nuclear Test Facility End of December, Rosatom (ENS Corporate Member) completed the upgrade of the world’s largest critical nuclear test facility, the BFS-2 at the AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk. The BFS-2, operated by IPPE (part of Rosatom’s scientific division, Science and Innovations),…
ENS and World Nuclear Association Sign MoU to Boost Cooperation The European Nuclear Society (ENS) and the World Nuclear Association (WNA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the cooperation in several areas, like research, advocacy, education and training, and knowledge management in the field of nuclear science and technology. The MoU has…
ENS Proposes Modifications to the EU Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act On 31 December the European Commission invited the EU member states to provide comments to the EU Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act (CDA) by 21 January. The European Nuclear Society welcomes the inclusion of nuclear within this sustainable finance regulation and together with its think-tank, High…
Strategic Partnerships for Westinghouse AP1000® in Eastern Europe Last week, Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with ten companies in Poland. The MOUs cover cooperation on the potential deployment of six AP1000® plants for the Polish Nuclear Power Plant program and other potential AP1000® reactor projects in Central and Eastern…
Sweden Approves SKB Final Repository Project On 27th January, the Swedish Government approved the project proposed by SKB to build a final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark and an encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn. The final repository project will bring investments of around SEK19bn (approximately €1.8bn) and will create about 1,500 jobs. The projects…
Tecnatom To Supply SMR-Based Simulator For Norwegian IFE The Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) of Norway has awarded Tecnatom (ENS Corporate Member) a contract for the development and supply of a simulator based on SMR. IFE was already a user of the i-PWR simulator, that Tecnatom developed and supplied to the IAEA some years ago,…
Radioisotopes for Life // Ensuring European Supply – Stakeholders and Opportunities The European Nuclear Society organised the webinar “Radioisotopes for life. Ensuring European supply – Stakeholders and opportunities”, in collaboration with Euratom Supply Agency, SCK CEN (both ENS Members), PALLAS and the EU Commission DG ENER. Speakers, moderated by Kristoff Muylle (former President of the…