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,…
Ensuring The Future – Outlook on Medical Radioisotopes and Uranium Supply Chains in Europe Interview with Euratom Supply Agency Director General Agnieszka Kazmierczak Medical radioisotopes are a crucial tool in beating cancer and other diseases, offering several and innovative solutions in terms of diagnostics and treatments. Despite this key role, the whole production and supply…
ENS Welcomes The EU Parliament Decision On The EU Taxonomy CDA European Nuclear Society together with its High Scientific Council truly welcome the decision of the European Parliament to adopt the EU Taxonomy ’s Complementary Delegated Act. Nuclear is seen clearly by a majority of the EU parliamentarians as a sustainable energy source, providing clean…
Westinghouse Selected By NASA For Space Nuclear Design Project Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) has been selected by NASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to provide an initial design concept for a fission surface power system that could be ready to launch…
Nuclear Can Play A Crucial Role In Enabling Energy Transition, IEA Says The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its new Report “Nuclear Power and Secure Energy Transitions”, stressing once again that nuclear energy can help reduce CO2 emissions and allow energy systems to integrate higher shares of intermittent solar and wind power. Net-zero goals…