Ansaldo Nucleare And Westinghouse Cooperate To Deploy LFR Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Electric Company (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a new cooperation agreement to develop the next-generation nuclear power plant based on Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) technology. The two companies will advance a common design to maximize synergies, combine experience in design, testing and licensing,…
ITER Project Achieved A Major Machine Assembly Milestone Thursday 11th May the ITER Project achieved a major machine assembly milestone, as the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber was successfully lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine well. This major lifting operation took several months to prepare for the entire ITER and…
Ansaldo Nucleare To Implement The Italian Divertor Tokamak Test Facility Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member) has won a 21 million EUR contract for the management of multidisciplinary technical-managerial support services aimed at implementing the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) Facility. The agreement provides for technical-managerial implementation support related to activities of Architectural Engineer, Specialized Engineering and…
Ansaldo Nucleare to Build the ATHENA Experimental Facility in Romania The consortium including Ansaldo Nucleare (ENS Corporate Member) and Reinvent Energy (Romania), has been awarded a contract worth approximately €20 million for the design, procurement, installation, and commissioning service of the ATHENA experimental plant. ATHENA – Advanced Thermo-Hydraulics Experiment for Nuclear Application will be a…
Ansaldo Nuclear To Cooperate With Westinghouse On LFR Project Ansaldo Nuclear has won a contract to design, install and operate two experimental facilities that will be part of the Westinghouse development programme for its lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR). Ansaldo Nuclear said it will test prototypical high-priority components at the versatile lead loop facility (VLF) and will…
Ansaldo Nucleare Completed The Welding Activities On First Sector Of ITER Vacuum Vessel Last December, Ansaldo Nucleare completed the welding activities for the installation of crucial diagnostics, instrumentation and a cable tray on Vacuum Vessel Sector #6 (VVS#6) at ITER. As part of the Tokamak Assembly Works, specialist engineers from Ansaldo Nucleare were required to…
Ansaldo Nucleare Wins 10 Million Euro Contract for a Pre-Conceptual Fusion Reactor Design A consortium, led by Ansaldo Nucleare, has won a €10m contract from the European Commission for a pre-conceptual fusion reactor design. It will be built on knowledge gained from the ongoing International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) project in France and the Joint…