Rolls Royce SMRs Expected To Power UK’s National Grid by 2029 Rolls-Royce is to start building parts for its small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in anticipation of receiving regulatory approval from the British government by 2024, the chairman of Rolls-Royce SMR, Paul Stein, has told the Reuters news agency. Mr. Stein also said he hoped the…
Tractebel To Support France’s NUWARD SMR Project Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) will provide engineering services to deliver NUWARD ™, a small modular reactor technology. The construction of the reference plant is expected to start in 2030 and its deployment will contribute to meeting growing European demand for carbon-neutral, safe, and affordable electricity. Tractebel’s experts will…
ITER Project Achieved A Major Machine Assembly Milestone Thursday 11th May the ITER Project achieved a major machine assembly milestone, as the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber was successfully lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine well. This major lifting operation took several months to prepare for the entire ITER and…
Westinghouse To Advance Micro-Reactors Deployment In North America Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) is signing several Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with North American research centres and universities to advance micro-reactors deployment in Canada and USA. Canada Westinghouse and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) will jointly develop a project to locate an eVinci™ micro-reactor in…
CERN LHC Has Restarted And Recorded New Fundamental Observations One month ago, the CERN (Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions…
SCK CEN Receives Government Funding To Lead SMR Research Belgium’s SCK CEN nuclear research centre (ENS Corporate Member) will receive a budget of €100 million from the Federal Government to conduct research into small modular reactors (SMRs). In 1952, SCK CEN was created to promote nuclear energy in Belgium and launch the Belgian atomic age.…
Romania Studies The Deployment Of Europe’s First SMR By 2028 Romania’s state nuclear power corporation Nuclearelectrica announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with NuScale Power LLC to conduct engineering studies, technical reviews, and licensing and permitting activities at a site in Doicesti (Romania) that is the preferred location for the deployment of the first NuScale…
TVO Loaded Two Fuel Assemblies Equipped With 3D Printed Filters Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) plays a pioneering role in the utilisation of 3D technology in the nuclear industry. The company loaded two fuel assemblies equipped with 3D printed filters for the exclusion of foreign material in the reactor of Olkiluoto-2, during the refuelling outage carried out…
Tractebel Leads EU Project On Advanced Nuclear Space Technologies Following the recent contract awarded by the European Space Agency, Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) has now been selected to head the consortium of PULSAR, a research and innovation project funded by the European Commission to develop nuclear technology to power space missions. Tractebel will conduct research…
The World’s First Lutetium-177 Produced At Commercial Nuclear Reactor The Canadian nuclear operator Bruce Power announced the world’s first production of lutetium-177 (Lu-177) at a commercial nuclear reactor, its Bruce-7 nuclear power plant in Ontario. This milestone has been achieved thanks to the international cooperation between Bruce Power, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company), and…