High Flux Reactor In Petten Started Up In Advance The High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, operated by NRG (ENS Corporate Member) started up a day early after maintenance to increase the availability of medical isotopes. The HFR has about 260 production days per year and has regular short maintenance shutdowns, and twice a year…
NCBJ And JAEA To Boost Research And Development In HTGRs On November 22, in Tokyo, the President of the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mr. Koguchi Masanori and the Director of the Polish National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Prof. Krzysztof Kurek signed an Implementing Arrangement regarding the institution’s cooperation in research and development in…
Steps Forward For Belgium’s Geological Radwaste Disposal On November 22, 2022, a Royal Decree concerning radioactive waste management in Belgium was published in the Belgian Official Gazette. This decree is the first regulatory act allowing the formal elaboration of a national policy for the safe and responsible long-term management of high-level radioactive waste in Belgium.…
HyDUS Project Awarded £7.7m From UK Net Zero Innovation Portfolio The consortium involving EDF (UK) R&D, Urenco (ENS Corporate Members), the University of Bristol, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has been awarded £7.73 million to develop a hydrogen storage demonstrator utilising depleted uranium at UKAEA’s Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The funds…
Dr Stanislas de Lambert wins ENS High Scientific Council PhD Award 2022 The ENS HSC brings together 22 scientists from 16 countries. For the 2022 edition HSC received eleven nominations from ENS member Societies: namely the Belgian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Israeli, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, UK and Ukrainian Nuclear Societies. ENS Members Societies provided candidates’…
Tractebel Continues Supporting Nuclear Sector in South Africa Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) recently signed a contract with South Africa’s nuclear operator Eskom to continue providing engineering support to help extend the operational duration of the Koeberg nuclear power plant by 20 years as decided by the government in 2019. Tractebell engineers will so review and…
Bertin Supplies Armenia With Radiation Monitoring Instruments The European Commission is financially supporting Armenia in the acquisition and installation of an automatic on-line radiation monitoring early warning system for monitoring and dispersion modelling with an emergency center for the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ANRA). Armenia operates a single Unit (448MW PWR) nuclear power plant in Metsamor,…
NUKEM Upgrades The Incineration Facility For Radwaste In Seibersdorf In 2016, NUKEM Technologies Engineering Services GmbH (NUKEM – ENS Corporate Member) was awarded a contract for the upgrade of the Incineration Facility for low-level radioactive waste in Seibersdorf, Austria. The purpose of the upgrade was to optimise the incinerator feed and ash discharge processes, in particular…
CEA Is A New ENS Corporate Member Following the approval of the General Assembly of ENS, we are glad to announce that CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, became a new Corporate Member of the European Nuclear Society, effective starting from 1st January 2023. Since 1945, CEA is a key player…
Framatome Supports NuScale In VOYGR™ SMR Development Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) announced this week two new contract awards with NuScale Power to design fuel handling equipment and fuel storage racks for NuScale’s VOYGR™ small modular reactor (SMR) power plant. These awards build on our partnership as NuScale’s fuel assembly supplier and signify an important opportunity…