Polish Universities Launch New Courses To Support The Country’s Nuclear Programme Six Polish universities, the energy firm PKN Orlen and the country’s Ministry of Education have signed a letter of intent for the roll-out of new nuclear energy-related courses to begin in the coming academic year. The project aims at educating and training the future…
SCK CEN And IRE Starts The Construction Of RECUMO Facility SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member) and IRE – Institut National des Radioéléments inaugurated the construction of the RECUMO facility. The joint project represents the structural solution for the management of all of the highly radioactive residues stored at the IRE’s site in Fleurus (Belgium) which…
ANVS Granted The Construction Licence For The PALLAS Reactor On 15th February 2023, the Dutch regulator Nuclear and Radiation Protection Authority (ANVS) granted the Nuclear Energy Act licence for the construction of the PALLAS reactor. The licence becomes valid on 31 March pending any appeals. After a long preliminary process during which all safety documentation…
Urenco And USNC To Cooperate On Advanced Reactor Deployment Urenco USA (US branch of Urenco, ENS Corporate Member) and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) announced last 1st March an enrichment services supply agreement as part of the fuel supply programme for USNC’s Micro-Modular™ Reactor (MMR®). Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation will purchase enriched uranium products from…
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…
“What can I do to help improve patients’ lives?” Interview with Katya Popova, Researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia Exciting recent developments in nuclear medicine provide effective cancer treatment in an ever more targeted way with minimal side effects. Today we talk with Katya Popova, Ph.D. in Genetics, and working…
BR2 Research Reactor Will Run With LEU In 2026 SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member) announced that the BR2 research reactor will switch to low-enriched uranium (LEU) in 2026. Then BR2 will be the world’s first research reactor with high-performance fuel on low enriched uranium. As SCK CEN said, the change to LEU will help to…
NRG And TerThera Cooperate To Secure Terbium-161 Supply Last week, NRG (ENS Corporate Member) and TerThera signed an agreement for irradiation services in the High Flux Reactor in Petten to produce Terbium-161. The non-carrier-added (NCA) Terbium-161 is produced by neutron irradiation of highly enriched Gadolinium-160 targets in the Dutch research reactor. Terbium-161 is a promising novel…
European Nuclear Society High Scientific Council’s Statement on Small Modular Reactors Today’s European Union Declaration on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) marks an important step towards the decarbonised and autonomous Europe. Climate change is a tremendous threat to human well-being and our societies. The ever-more alarming messages on anthropogenic climate change, as expressed by the IPCC,…
“Nuclear medicine has a great unexplored potential” Interview with Anthony Waked, PhD Fellow at SCK CEN – Belgian Nuclear Research Centre and the University of Liège, Belgium In the past decade, research has made tremendous progress and medical isotopes are expected to become a vital tool in the treatment of many types of cancers in…