Belgium Approves The Surface Radwaste Storage Facility In Dessel The Royal Decree published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 16 May 2023 issued the necessary authorisation for the construction and operation of the surface disposal facility in Dessel (Belgium). There the ONDRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian National Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Material, will safely…
Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Advance In Testing LFR Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Members) announced this week a milestone achievement in their work on Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) with the completion of the first testing campaign at the Passive Heat Removal Facility, recently built at the Ansaldo Nuclear plant in Wolverhampton (UK). The…
Westinghouse And Bechtel Together For The First NPP In Poland Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) and Bechtel will jointly form a consortium to design and build Poland’s first commercial nuclear power plant. On 25 May, the two companies signed an agreement in Warsaw with the Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe to define the terms…
SCK CEN Announced A New Partnership To Accelerate The Fight Against Cancer The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member) announced that the US-based SpectronRx will open its first European radiolabeling facility for sorely needed medical radioisotopes. The facility will be established on the premises of the research centre in Mol, Belgium. Both…
New PSI Study For More Detailed Tests Of Nuclear Fuel Cladding Recent micro-beam measurements at the Swiss Light Source SLS (Paul Scherrer Institut – PSI, ENS Corporate Member) have enabled insights into the crystal structure of hydrides that promote cracks in nuclear fuel cladding. This fundamental knowledge of the material properties of cladding will help…
Framatome and Slovenské elektrárne Extend Their Long-Term Partnership Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of a global strategic relationship with the Slovak company Slovenské elektrárne. The signing ceremony took place in Bratislava during the visit and meeting between the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel…
Nuclear Energy And The European Energy Policy At The Crossroad… Marc Deffrennes The title of this short article can be understood in two ways: is it nuclear energy which is at the crossroad, or the European Energy Policy? In fact, both. The time has indeed come for a paradigm shift. The time has come to…
The Destruction Of The Kakhovka Dam May Have Made It Impossible To Restart ZNPP For A Longer Period Prof. Dr. Attila Aszódi As extensively covered by international news reports, the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River, located some 120 km south-west downstream from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), exploded at dawn on 6 June…
Vattenfall Exploring Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production At Ringhals Vattenfall (ENS Corporate Member) has decided to start a new project to produce clean hydrogen using electricity generated from offshore wind and nuclear. The Swedish company said it has received permission from the national grid regulator Svenska kraftnät to proceed with the deployment of the 1.2 GW Kattegatt…
Westinghouse And Fortum Evaluate New Nuclear Projects Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) and Fortum announced the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to study the possibilities for the development and deployment of AP1000 and AP300 reactor projects in Finland and Sweden. The MOUs establish a framework of collaboration for detailed technical and commercial discussions…