TVEL and St. Petersburg Polytechnic To Cooperate On Digital Engineering Technologies Russia’s St Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) signed an agreement for the development of cooperation between Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL and the Competence Centre of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) SPbPU New Production Technologies. The Roadmap, signed last 16 February and planned until the end…
Enusa signed the first contract with South Korea’s KEPCO Enusa Industrias Avanzadas, ENS Corporate Members, signed a supply contract with Korea Electric Power Company (Kepco) for equipment to measure the degree of burn-up in used NPP fuel elements. This is Enusa’s first contract with South Korea and is the result of an international tender called…
ROSATOM Completes A New Milestone In ATF Development Program ROSATOM has achieved a scheduled milestone in the development of Russian accident tolerant fuel (ATF). The Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) has completed the second cycle of irradiation of the experimental fuel assemblies with VVER and PWR fuel rods in the MIR research reactor. Each…
Belgium And The Netherlands Plan New Waste Storage Facilities Radioactive waste includes all types of waste that are radioactive. They need to be treated and stored and handled with the necessary security. Belgian and Dutch agencies for radioactive waste management are developing important projects to ensure the safe storage of waste with different levels of…
GEH and Fermi Energia To Support SMR Development in Estonia GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Fermi Energia have signed a teaming agreement to support the potential deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in Estonia. GEH expects to support Fermi Energia in key areas such as licensing, human resources and supply chain development…
A Geological Repository And Innovative Solutions For Lithuanian Radwaste Lithuania signs agreements for the development of a deep geological repository, widely considered as the best option to dispose of high-level radioactive waste. The envisaged deep repository project will be implemented as part of the Programme for the Development of the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Facilities…
Nuclear-21 New Report Focuses On Paradigms For International Standardisation Interest in harmonising approaches to the design, evaluation and certification of nuclear installations is universally recognised since longtime. Significant progress has been made but the process has not yet been completed and the situation now appears to be stagnating. To make further progress in this difficult…
Petten HFR Will Produce Medical Isotopes Only With LEU The High Flux Reactor in Petten, operated by NRG, from now on produces only medical isotopes with low-enriched uranium (LEU). Until recently, the productions for NRG’s Belgian partner IRE were still based on high-enriched uranium, because IRE could not fully process low-enriched uranium. But now IRE…
ROSATOM’s Leningrad 2-2 Began Commercial Operation ROSATOM announced that Leningrad 2-2 nuclear power plant in Russia began commercial operation on Monday, 22 March 2021. This is the fourth Generation III+ unit with VVER-1200 PWR in Russia. It will substitute the Soviet-era Leningrad-2 with RBMK-1000 reactor, which shut down last November, fully replacing its capacity. Following…
PSI Investigates For Suitable Swiss Deep Geological Repository Switzerland is planning to construct a deep geological repository for its radioactive waste by 2050. Three sites are currently under consideration and researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute are providing data that will help in determining which is most suitable. The search for suitable locations is being conducted…