NRG Starts Irradiating Nuclear Reactor Containment Tubes For EDF In December 2020 EDF (Électricité de France) and NRG (both ENS Corporate Members) have started a cooperation on the irradiation of containment tubes. The purpose of the irradiation is to gain knowledge on the behavior of containment tubes under operating conditions that are to be considered…
Westinghouse And EDF To Cooperate On EnCore® ATF Technology Westinghouse Electric Company announced a partnership with EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore® enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This…
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…
EDF and Fortum Partner To Explore Joint Opportunities In New Nuclear The French utility EDF (ENS Corporate Member) and Fortum have signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement (FCA) to jointly explore collaboration opportunities for small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) and large power plant deployment in Finland and Sweden. The FCA has been signed on the occasion…
EDF And Respect Energy To Cooperate On SMR Projects In Poland The French utility EDF (ENS Corporate Member) and the Polish renewable energy trader Respect Energy signed an Exclusive Cooperation Agreement for the development of nuclear power projects in Poland based on NUWARD™ SMR technology. The agreement has been signed last week, during a dedicated event…
EDF Partners With Ansaldo On SMR Development ENS Corporate Members EDF and Ansaldo Nucleare, together with Ansaldo Energia and Edison, announced the signature of a Letter of Intention to explore the potential industrial cooperation for the development of nuclear power, and specifically small modular reactors (SMRs), in Europe. The aim of the agreement is to…
Tractebel, EDF And NUWARD Signed A New Agreement On SMR Project Tractebel, EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) and NUWARD signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement to strengthen and extend their collaboration in the development of the NUWARD Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. With this long-term agreement to support the project, Tractebel will allocate more resources to NUWARD…
Framatome And EDF Cooperate To Test EATF In French Reactor Framatome and EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a collaboration agreement to test its enhanced accident-tolerant fuel (EATF) technology in an operating nuclear power plant in France. As part of its PROtect EATF programme, Framatome will manufacture and deliver four lead fuel assemblies (LFAs) that…
Projects, Innovations, Workforce and Talents – How will the nuclear of the future cope with them? Interview with Patrick Bossaert, HR Director for New Nuclear Project at EDF EDF (ENS Corporate Member) is the operator of the whole French nuclear fleet. While operating 56 reactors in the country, EDF is planning new large-size reactors in…
EDF and Ansaldo Join A Partnership To Decarbonise Steel Industry This week, EDF, Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Members), Ansaldo Energia, Edison, and Federacciai announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at promoting cooperation in the use of nuclear energy to boost the competitiveness and decarbonisation of the Italian steel industry. The signatories of…