IAEA Mission On Ageing Management Of The High Flux Reactor In Petten From 21 to 28 June, a team of seven international experts visited NRG’s High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to examine the ageing management of installations. NRG celebrated the reactor’s sixtieth anniversary last year,…
EUROfusion Started The DEMO Conceptual Design Phase Last 5th July 2022, the EUROfusion consortium announced the start of conceptual design activities for Europe’s first demonstration fusion power plant DEMO, the ITER’s successor. DEMO (Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor) is a first-of-its-kind facility that represents the next technological step after the global ITER fusion experiment. It aims…
Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency Received Applications for SMRs Two applications have been submitted to Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki, PAA) for the assessment of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. The National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) said Orlen Synthos Green Energy and KGHM had both submitted application documents on 8 July. Orlen’s…
Applications Now Open For IAEA Marie Curie Fellowship Programme The application period for the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) is now open. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2022. For more information on how to apply, please go to this page. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme Launches The MSCFP aims to help increase the number of women in the nuclear…
Westinghouse To Decommission Norway’s Research Reactors Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) announced last week a major engineering contract with Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) to plan the decommissioning of the country’s two nuclear research reactors located in Halden and Kjeller. The three-year agreement includes options up to six years and is valued up to $100…
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…
The New PSI Pharmaceutical Laboratory Is Ready For Production Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI, ENS Corporate Member) announced that its new pharmaceutical laboratory for the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals is ready for production, accordingly to the operating licence granted by the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic). For more than 20 years, in collaboration with ETH Zurich,…
GEH And TVA To Cooperate On BWRX-300 SMR Deployment In The US GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH, ENS Corporate Member) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed an agreement to support the planning and the preliminary licensing for the potential deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at the Clinch River site, near Oak Ridge…
Framatome Announces New Investment Supporting Nuclear Medicine Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) announced that it acquired a minority stake in the French startup Global Morpho Pharma. With this investment, Framatome strengthens its activities serving nuclear medicine development and expands its support for the supply chain of Lutetium-177 and other promising isotopes for therapeutic applications. Global Morpho…