Ansaldo Energia and RINA Partner To Support the Italian Nuclear Supply Chain Ansaldo Energia (the Nuclear Division of which is an ENS Corporate Member) and RINA signed an agreement to support the development of the Italian nuclear supply chain and enable companies to seize opportunities in the rapidly growing global nuclear market by guiding them…
Ansaldo Nucleare and the Life Extension of Cernavodă Unit 1 Securing Romania’s Energy Future The Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, located on the banks of the Danube in Constanța County, is Romania’s only nuclear facility and a cornerstone of the country’s energy system. Operated by Nuclearelectrica, the plant currently runs two CANDU-6 pressurised heavy-water reactors, each…
Eagles Consortium to Develop Lead-Cooled Generation IV SMR Ansaldo Nucleare, SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Members) ENEA, and RATEN, established the Eagles Consortium to design and commercialise Lead-Cooled IV Generation Small Modular Reactor. The signing ceremony took place on the sidelines of the European Energy Council. The signing of this agreement solidifies the collaboration among consortium…
EDF and Ansaldo Join A Partnership To Decarbonise Steel Industry This week, EDF, Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Members), Ansaldo Energia, Edison, and Federacciai announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at promoting cooperation in the use of nuclear energy to boost the competitiveness and decarbonisation of the Italian steel industry. The signatories of…
Ansaldo Nucleare Supporting LTO at Cernavoda NPP Last week, Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member), the Italian insurance-financial group SACE, and the Romanian nuclear energy company Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica S.A. (SNN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to secure a financing line of up to €2bn to carry out work to extend the life of Unit 1…
A New Consortium For Deploying Lead-Cooled SMRs On 8 November, five companies leading research and innovation in heavy liquid metal technology joined forces to boost the implementation and the industrial deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) using Lead Fast Reactor Technology. Ansaldo Nucleare, SCK CEN, Westinghouse (ENS Corporate Members), ENEA and RATEN-ICN signed a Memorandum…
Ansaldo Restates Its Support To Romanian Nuclear Projects A fruitful institutional visit took place last week at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the only NPP in Romania, to strengthen the nuclear cooperation between Italian companies (among them Ansaldo Nucleare, ENS Corporate Member) and the Romanian operator Nuclearelectrica. Nuclearelectrica, following the visit to Cernavoda-1, presented its…
Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Advance In Testing LFR Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Members) announced this week a milestone achievement in their work on Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) with the completion of the first testing campaign at the Passive Heat Removal Facility, recently built at the Ansaldo Nuclear plant in Wolverhampton (UK). The…
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…
Ansaldo Nucleare Strengthens Cooperation With Italian Universities Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member) will cooperate with CIRTEN, the Consortium of Italian Universities involved in nuclear science and technology research activities, by supporting doctoral scholarships in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, Politecnico di Milano and University of Pisa. The PhD scholarships will be funded under the…