OECD NEA: “Nuclear Is Crucial For Climate Change Mitigation Efforts” OECD Nuclear Energy Agency recently published its last report “Meeting Climate Change Targets: The Role of Nuclear Energy”, which focuses on the potential contribution of nuclear energy to clean energy capacity and emissions reductions between 2020 and 2050, taking into consideration the contributions from power and…
Westinghouse To Advance Micro-Reactors Deployment In North America Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) is signing several Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with North American research centres and universities to advance micro-reactors deployment in Canada and USA. Canada Westinghouse and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) will jointly develop a project to locate an eVinci™ micro-reactor in…
CERN LHC Has Restarted And Recorded New Fundamental Observations One month ago, the CERN (Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation and upgrade work. Two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions…
SCK CEN Receives Government Funding To Lead SMR Research Belgium’s SCK CEN nuclear research centre (ENS Corporate Member) will receive a budget of €100 million from the Federal Government to conduct research into small modular reactors (SMRs). In 1952, SCK CEN was created to promote nuclear energy in Belgium and launch the Belgian atomic age.…
Romania Studies The Deployment Of Europe’s First SMR By 2028 Romania’s state nuclear power corporation Nuclearelectrica announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with NuScale Power LLC to conduct engineering studies, technical reviews, and licensing and permitting activities at a site in Doicesti (Romania) that is the preferred location for the deployment of the first NuScale…
Thomas Thor Associates and Urenco join ENS as new Corporate Members Following the approval of the General Assembly of ENS, we are glad to announce that Thomas Thor Associates and Urenco joined the European Nuclear Society as new Corporate Members, effective since 3rd June 2022. Thomas Thor Associates provide recruitment, executive search, and consulting services to the…
TVO Loaded Two Fuel Assemblies Equipped With 3D Printed Filters Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) plays a pioneering role in the utilisation of 3D technology in the nuclear industry. The company loaded two fuel assemblies equipped with 3D printed filters for the exclusion of foreign material in the reactor of Olkiluoto-2, during the refuelling outage carried out…
Urenco Setting Out Net Zero Roadmap Urenco (ENS Corporate Member) is setting out its Net Zero journey into a clear roadmap as part of its commitment to reduce its own emissions and those of its supply chain. The company has already committed to achieving net zero in advance of 2040 as a signatory of the…
European Research Reactor Conference 2022 – The Report The European Research Reactor Conference 2022 took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 10 June 2022. It has been a successful edition, which had more than 140 participants from all over the world and offered high-quality presentations and content. The 4-day programme included several Sessions, presenting…
Tractebel Leads EU Project On Advanced Nuclear Space Technologies Following the recent contract awarded by the European Space Agency, Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) has now been selected to head the consortium of PULSAR, a research and innovation project funded by the European Commission to develop nuclear technology to power space missions. Tractebel will conduct research…