EDF And Respect Energy To Cooperate On SMR Projects In Poland The French utility EDF (ENS Corporate Member) and the Polish renewable energy trader Respect Energy signed an Exclusive Cooperation Agreement for the development of nuclear power projects in Poland based on NUWARD™ SMR technology. The agreement has been signed last week, during a dedicated event…
EDF and Fortum Partner To Explore Joint Opportunities In New Nuclear The French utility EDF (ENS Corporate Member) and Fortum have signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement (FCA) to jointly explore collaboration opportunities for small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) and large power plant deployment in Finland and Sweden. The FCA has been signed on the occasion…
HyDUS Project Awarded £7.7m From UK Net Zero Innovation Portfolio The consortium involving EDF (UK) R&D, Urenco (ENS Corporate Members), the University of Bristol, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has been awarded £7.73 million to develop a hydrogen storage demonstrator utilising depleted uranium at UKAEA’s Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The funds…
Westinghouse And EDF To Cooperate On EnCore® ATF Technology Westinghouse Electric Company announced a partnership with EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore® enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This…
NRG Starts Irradiating Nuclear Reactor Containment Tubes For EDF In December 2020 EDF (Électricité de France) and NRG (both ENS Corporate Members) have started a cooperation on the irradiation of containment tubes. The purpose of the irradiation is to gain knowledge on the behavior of containment tubes under operating conditions that are to be considered…
UK Government Gives Green Light To Sizewell C Nuclear Project On 20 July 2022, the Sizewell C Project application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The application was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for consideration by NNB Nuclear Generation (SZC) Limited on 27 May…
EDF Life Cycle Analysis: Nuclear Is A Very Low Carbon Source Of Energy The recently published EDF Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) “Producing 1 kWh from the French nuclear” confirms the very low carbon nature of nuclear energy. According to the study, each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity produced by EDF’s reactor fleet in France emits the…
Westinghouse and EDF To Collaborate To Produce Cobalt-60 Radioisotope During the last World Nuclear Exhibition, Westinghouse Electric Company and EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to produce Cobalt-60 radioisotope in select Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) owned and operated by EDF in France. Cobalt-60 plays a critical role in the safety of medical…
“Decoding News From Taishan” – SFEN The following article was written by Sfen ‘s technical section #4 “Safety and Environment Protection”. It was translated from the French version published on June 16 in Sfen’s RGN Hebdo newsletter. The Taishan EPR unit 1, 1750 MWe, which started commercial operation in December 2018, has been making the…
EDF Submits A Binding Techno-Commercial Offer For Indian Nuclear Megaproject Last week, EDF submitted to NPCIL the French binding techno-commercial offer to supply engineering studies and equipment for the construction of six EPR reactors at the Jaitapur site, India. The offer is the culmination of the work carried out jointly with NPCIL further to the…