Floating NPPs, a Solution for Electricity Demand in Hot Countries? Could floating nuclear power plants be future reliable solutions in facing the increasing electricity demand, above all in the hottest countries? Some experts support the idea that floating NPPs could work in many coastal areas, e.g. of Africa, supplying electricity to port cities and surrounding…
NDA Announced a Partnership With the Nuclear Institute YGN The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) launched a year-long partnership with the Nuclear Institute’s Young Generation Network (YGN), aimed at inspiring and supporting young people in the nuclear industry. It marks the first-ever YGN Industrial Partnership – meaning the NDA and its group of companies will actively…
ITER Cryostat Lower Cylinder Has Been Installed A major assembly milestone has been achieved at Cadarache, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) site. The cryostat lower cylinder has been installed, reaching its position above the base sector. The installation process has been long and very cautious and started on 22 August, when a 192-wheel self-propelled…
Ultrasound Technique to Test Welding Seams of ITER Components A new technique to test ultrasonically welding seams of key components of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is about to be developed by specialists in non-destructive testing of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. Specialists from the EU, UK, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and US…
ITER Project Starts Its Five-Year Assembly The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday, 28th July 2020. Assembly in Cadarache is expected to be over in late 2025. The €20bn ITER project will replicate the reactions that power the sun and is intended to…
Generation IV – IAEA and GIF Call for Faster Deployment The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), an initiative involving 13 countries focused on next-generation nuclear power technologies, called for greater efforts to support the early deployment of innovative nuclear reactor systems to address climate change. The appeal came during the…
Take this opportunity – additional Call for Papers The Programme Committee of the European Research Reactor Conference would like to offer all members of the research reactor community the possibility to present projects and share knowledge in 2020. It therefore opens a short Call for Papers and invites authors to submit abstracts until 28 August…
PSI Aim at Extending Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physic With the high-intensity proton accelerator HIPA, the Paul Scherrer Institute generates elementary particles to clarify a fundamental question: How is our universe structured? With the help of pions, muons, and neutrons, the PSI researchers are conducting experiments to find out how the well established yet…
Westinghouse Awarded £10m From UK Government AMR Project Westinghouse Electric Company announced their Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) programme has successfully progressed to Phase 2 of the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) Feasibility and Development project, receiving £10m (€ 11.1 m) in funding from the BEIS Energy…
ITER Project – Cryostat Manufacturing From India Is Over In September 2012, the Indian Domestic Agency concluded a contract with Larsen & Toubro for the fabrication of the 3,800-tonne ITER cryostat — the world’s largest steel vacuum chamber (16,000 m³) and a critical part of the ITER machine. Eight years later, the final segments are ready for shipment…