Westinghouse, TVO and OKG Signed a Cooperation Agreement to Reinforce Key Competencies Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a cooperation agreement with the Finnish nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) and the Swedish nuclear power company OKG to jointly reinforce key competencies on Boiling Water Reactors (BWR). This agreement creates a privileged partnership for securing…
Framatome, GE Steam Power and Rosatom signed a MoU on Belene NPP Project French-based company Framatome, Russian State company Rosatom and GE Steam Power signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the framework of the strategic investor selection procedure for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, in Bulgaria. According to the MoU, the companies will work…
Sustainable Recovery – IEA World Energy Outlook Special Report The International Energy Agency recently published a report, entitled “Sustainable Recovery”, offering a post-pandemic recovery plan for the energy sector. The report underlines the crucial role of hydropower and nuclear power in the energy mix. According to the IEA Report, these are the two largest sources of low-carbon…
IAEA and Okayama University to Cooperate in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy R&D Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a non-invasive therapeutic technique for treating invasive malignant tumours. It relies on the use of neutrons for the generation of energetic alpha particles to destroy cells within the tumour, but not in the surrounding tissue. Recent breakthroughs…
Orano has completed the dismantling of the Ulysse experimental nuclear reactor Orano has announced on 22 June the completion of the dismantling of the experimental nuclear reactor Ulysse, located in Saclay (Essonne). The works, which lasted five years, were completed on time. Ulysse experimental nuclear reactor shut down definitively in February 2007. Thirteen years later,…
Consortium of 15 Companies Launches Clean Energy Hub in the UK Fifteen companies and trade unions, which support clean energy programmes, announced proposals for a Clean Energy Hub based at Moorside in Cumbria, UK. The Moorside Hub, which includes French EDF, British engineering company Atkins and nuclear services firms Cavendish Nuclear and Bilfinger, aims to promote…
Europe and Japan Complete the Most Powerful Tokamak in the World Almost twelve years after they started their collaboration, Europe and Japan have taken an important step in the development of fusion energy by completing JT-60SA, the most powerful tokamak in the world before ITER enters the picture. With a diameter of 12 m, the…
July 2020 – Nuclear Institute UK Webinars and Events The Nuclear Institute UK and NI Young Generation Network (YGN) have planned a month full of interesting webinars. Check the NI’s Webinar Calendar. There you can find more details on each webinar, dates and registration forms. Here the list of the upcoming events for the first…
BWX Tech. Wins $26M to Expand and Upgrade Triso Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Line Idaho National Laboratory has awarded the nuclear operations subsidiary of BWX Technologies a contract to expand and upgrade its Triso nuclear fuel manufacturing line. The $26m contract will expand BWXT’s capacity for the manufacture of Triso fuel compacts and upgrade existing systems…
Cooperation on NICA Project intensifies Germany and Russia are planning to extend their cooperation on the superconducting Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA), being built in Dubna, near Moscow, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research reported. JINR has 18 member states. Germany is one of six associate members with Egypt, Hungary, Italy, South Africa and Serbia. NICA,…