Fusion Energy Record At Joint European Torus In The UK A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy output! Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the UK doubled previous records by producing a total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period. The JET is the largest and most…
Ansaldo Nucleare To Implement The Italian Divertor Tokamak Test Facility Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member) has won a 21 million EUR contract for the management of multidisciplinary technical-managerial support services aimed at implementing the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) Facility. The agreement provides for technical-managerial implementation support related to activities of Architectural Engineer, Specialized Engineering and…
BR2’s Radioisotopes Helped More Than 10 Millions Patients in 2021 In 2021, more than 10 million patients were helped thanks to the production of medical radioisotopes in the Belgian research reactor BR2, as reported the Belgian nuclear research centre SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member). At each operating cycle, it provides the necessary raw materials used…
Swedish Joint Venture Funded For Demonstration Lead-Cooled SMR The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded Swedish Modular Reactors AB – a joint venture between Uniper Sweden and LeadCold, in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – funding of just over SEK99 million (EUR9.3 million) in support of the construction of a demonstration LeadCold SEALER…
SCK CEN and IRE Ready To Start Lutetium-177 Large-Scale Production SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member) and the National Institute for Radioelements (IRE) are going to start the large-scale production of lutetium-177. This decision opens up opportunities for cancer patients. Lutetium-177 is currently used in hospitals to treat neuroendocrine tumours. Neuroendocrine cells are found primarily in the…
PALLAS Receives Nature Permits To Build Advanced Research Reactor Environmental Service Noord-Holland Noord has granted a permit for the construction of the PALLAS-reactor and for the realization of the Nuclear Health Centre (NHC) under the Nature Conservation Act. The granting of the permit means that the company can continue with the realization of the building…
UK To Start Approval Process For Rolls-Royce SMR Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd has submitted its 470-MW small modular reactor (SMR) design for entry to the UK’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) regulatory process, run jointly by the Office for Nuclear Regulation, Natural Resources Wales and the Environment Agency. The three regulators can now begin their formal review…
Message from the ENS Board of Directors Brussels, 10th March 2022 The European Nuclear Society is suspending all activities with organizations associated with the authorities of the Russian Federation and Belarus until the end of aggression in Ukraine. Such activities would be incompatible with the charter of the ENS, in which “The ENS…
NRG Safety Committee Approved Restart Solution For HFR In Petten The High-Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, Netherlands, did not start up on 20 January 2022, due to a leak in a water system. NRG (ENS Corporate Member) reported no risk to nuclear safety, man, or the environment. Since the discovery of the technical failure in…
ENS Expert Explains What’s Going On In Chernobyl Prof. Dr. Attila Aszodi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) explains in his blog the possible consequences of the recent loss of electricity supply in Chernobyl, Ukraine. A continuous electricity supply of nuclear power plants is vital. This also applies to shut-down reactors, given that…