CERN LHC Has Restarted And Recorded New Fundamental Observations One month ago, the CERN (Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions…
SCK CEN Receives Government Funding To Lead SMR Research Belgium’s SCK CEN nuclear research centre (ENS Corporate Member) will receive a budget of €100 million from the Federal Government to conduct research into small modular reactors (SMRs). In 1952, SCK CEN was created to promote nuclear energy in Belgium and launch the Belgian atomic age.…
Romania Studies The Deployment Of Europe’s First SMR By 2028 Romania’s state nuclear power corporation Nuclearelectrica announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with NuScale Power LLC to conduct engineering studies, technical reviews, and licensing and permitting activities at a site in Doicesti (Romania) that is the preferred location for the deployment of the first NuScale…
Thomas Thor Associates and Urenco join ENS as new Corporate Members Following the approval of the General Assembly of ENS, we are glad to announce that Thomas Thor Associates and Urenco joined the European Nuclear Society as new Corporate Members, effective since 3rd June 2022. Thomas Thor Associates provide recruitment, executive search, and consulting services to the…
TVO Loaded Two Fuel Assemblies Equipped With 3D Printed Filters Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) plays a pioneering role in the utilisation of 3D technology in the nuclear industry. The company loaded two fuel assemblies equipped with 3D printed filters for the exclusion of foreign material in the reactor of Olkiluoto-2, during the refuelling outage carried out…
Urenco Setting Out Net Zero Roadmap Urenco (ENS Corporate Member) is setting out its Net Zero journey into a clear roadmap as part of its commitment to reduce its own emissions and those of its supply chain. The company has already committed to achieving net zero in advance of 2040 as a signatory of the…
European Research Reactor Conference 2022 – The Report The European Research Reactor Conference 2022 took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 10 June 2022. It has been a successful edition, which had more than 140 participants from all over the world and offered high-quality presentations and content. The 4-day programme included several Sessions, presenting…
Tractebel Leads EU Project On Advanced Nuclear Space Technologies Following the recent contract awarded by the European Space Agency, Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) has now been selected to head the consortium of PULSAR, a research and innovation project funded by the European Commission to develop nuclear technology to power space missions. Tractebel will conduct research…
EDF Life Cycle Analysis: Nuclear Is A Very Low Carbon Source Of Energy The recently published EDF Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) “Producing 1 kWh from the French nuclear” confirms the very low carbon nature of nuclear energy. According to the study, each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity produced by EDF’s reactor fleet in France emits the…
Vattenfall Plans 100MW Power Increase At Forsmark NPP Vattenfall (ENS Corporate Member) is planning to increase the power of Unit 1 at Forsmark nuclear power plant by just over 100MW, half of which can be done during the next maintenance period in autumn. Forsmark-1 has been modernised to ensure long-term operation and the infrastructure has…