TUM and Framatome to develop UMo fuel for nuclear research reactor Framatome and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) recently started the commercial development of uranium-molybdenum fuel (UMo) for nuclear research reactors. Framatome and TUM will design and install a fuel manufacturing production line, developing, producing and irradiating new fuel prototypes. The project will take…
IAEA Members to fund the fight against COVID-19 An initiative by the International Atomic Energy Agency to help some 120 countries contain the coronavirus pandemic has received extrabudgetary support from member states. The voluntary pledge is totalling around €22m. Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA’s director-general, said on 11 May the funds will enable the IAEA to…
Rosatom – Technologies and Solutions for SMRs Artem Larionov of Rosatom Overseas told the last webinar organised by European Nuclear Society that R&D work on fuel for the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) plant has begun. The reactor technology will be based on Russia’s RITM-200 plant, an advanced pressurised water reactor (PWR) unit which is already operational on three…
SFEN – New Nuclear to Help the National Economy The French Nuclear Energy Society SFEN underlined in its last position paper the opportunity offered by new investments in the nuclear sector to stimulate the national economy. SFEN stressed a stronger commitment by the government to build a series of new EPR nuclear power reactors in…
PSI recorded a sodium pump in action for the first time using a new radiation technology Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have recorded for the first time, in action, a light-driven sodium pump from bacterial cells. It has been possible thanks to the new X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL, used by PSI researchers for…
EDF Submits Planning Application for Sizewell C EDF has submitted an application to the Planning Inspectorate to build two new EPR units at Sizewell C in Suffolk, southeast England. Once operational, Sizewell C will supply around 6 million homes with always-on, low carbon electricity made in the UK. Low carbon nuclear power will support more…
ITER Project Achieves a Major Milestone The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, which aims to build the world’s largest fusion reactor in southern France, achieved a major milestone this week. The construction crews of about 200 carefully lifted the cryostat base into the first major piece of the reactor, the tokamak. Procured by India,…
Second International Conference on Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST-2021) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is organizing the Second International Conference on Applications of Radiation Science and Technology (ICARST-2021) at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria from 19 to 23 April 2021. Approximately 500 participants from IAEA Member States and invited international organizations…
Hinkley Point C achieves latest major milestone on schedule Workers building the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have completed on schedule the 49,000-tonne base for the second Generation III EPR unit under construction at the site. EDF Energy, the UK branch of France’s state-owned utility EDF, is building the two 1,600-MW EPR units at…
NRG and PALLAS appoint Bertholt Leeftink (CEO) and Gerrit Zalm The NRG Foundation (previously: Foundation ECN) and the Foundation Preparation Pallas-reactor (PALLAS) have made an important step forward. The executive board members and the supervisory board members of both organizations will sit on the boards of both companies, via a so-called “personele unie” (a situation…