Dr Marco Tiberga wins ENS High Scientific Council PhD Award 2021 The ENS HSC brings together 23 scientists from 17 countries. For the 2021 edition HSC received nine nominations from ENS member Societies: namely the Austrian, Belgian, Finnish, French, Israeli, Italian, Netherlands, Spanish and Ukrainian Nuclear Societies. ENS Members Societies provided candidates’ CV, an extended…
L3Harris Awarded For Innovative Molten Salt Reactor Simulator L3Harris Technologies (ENS Corporate Member) has been awarded the 2021 Innovation Award for a first-of-a-kind simulator by the Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCNI), the country’s leading nuclear supply chain trade association. L3Harris delivered the innovative simulator to Terrestrial Energy to support its Generation IV Integral Molten…
HFR 60th Anniversary And The Rising Demand For Radiopharmaceuticals The demand for medical treatments is rising sharply, partly due to the increased incidence of cancer. In the past year, 115,000 new cases of cancer have been diagnosed in the Netherlands, 13,000 of which prostate cancer. Consequently, NRG|PALLAS is seeing an increase in the demand for…
Westinghouse and EDF To Collaborate To Produce Cobalt-60 Radioisotope During the last World Nuclear Exhibition, Westinghouse Electric Company and EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to produce Cobalt-60 radioisotope in select Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) owned and operated by EDF in France. Cobalt-60 plays a critical role in the safety of medical…
Euratom Supply Agency Is A New ENS Member A wonderful 2021, rich in successes and achievements, is close to ending, but it’s not yet over! Today we are glad to announce that Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) became the 30th Member of the European Nuclear Society. The mission of ESA is to maintain regular and equitable supply of…
Framatome and Exelon Signed A MoU To Strengthen Cobalt-60 Production Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) and Exelon Generation recently announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding to develop solutions to produce Cobalt-60 in Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) operated by Exelon Generation in the US. Cobalt-60 is a radioisotope produced in nuclear reactors out of natural…
Rosatom Upgraded The World’s Largest Critical Nuclear Test Facility End of December, Rosatom (ENS Corporate Member) completed the upgrade of the world’s largest critical nuclear test facility, the BFS-2 at the AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk. The BFS-2, operated by IPPE (part of Rosatom’s scientific division, Science and Innovations),…
Radioisotopes for Life // Ensuring European Supply – Stakeholders and Opportunities The European Nuclear Society organised the webinar “Radioisotopes for life. Ensuring European supply – Stakeholders and opportunities”, in collaboration with Euratom Supply Agency, SCK CEN (both ENS Members), PALLAS and the EU Commission DG ENER. Speakers, moderated by Kristoff Muylle (former President of the…
Ansaldo Nucleare To Implement The Italian Divertor Tokamak Test Facility Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member) has won a 21 million EUR contract for the management of multidisciplinary technical-managerial support services aimed at implementing the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) Facility. The agreement provides for technical-managerial implementation support related to activities of Architectural Engineer, Specialized Engineering and…
BR2’s Radioisotopes Helped More Than 10 Millions Patients in 2021 In 2021, more than 10 million patients were helped thanks to the production of medical radioisotopes in the Belgian research reactor BR2, as reported the Belgian nuclear research centre SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member). At each operating cycle, it provides the necessary raw materials used…