Rosatom Starts The Construction Of Brest-OD-300 Fast Neutron Reactor ROSATOM inaugurated the construction of the Brest-OD-300 pilot demonstration power plant at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine (an enterprise of Rosatom-subsidiary TVEL Fuel Company). The licence for construction has been issued by Russian regulator Rostechnadzor last February. Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, Tomsk regional…
Vattenfall To Be Minority Shareholder Of Nuclear Startup Fermi Energia The Swedish company Vattenfall, ENS Corporate Member, will be a minority shareholder of approximately 6% ownership of the Estonian nuclear energy start-up company Fermi Energia, with a seed investment of Euro 1 million. In November 2020, Vattenfall already extended its ongoing cooperation with Fermi Energia…
IEA Stresses The Importance of Nuclear For Spain’s Long-Term Energy Strategies The International Energy Agency recently published the Energy Policy Report “Spain 2021”, a periodical in-depth peer review of the energy policies to support their development and encourages the exchange of international best practices and experiences. Spain has made considerable progress towards its goal of…
IEA Roadmap: “Net Zero Needs All Clean Technologies, Nuclear Included” The International Energy Agency recently published the report, Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, which shows what needs to be done today to ensure the opportunity of net-zero emissions by 2050 is not lost. According to the IEA executive director…
Framatome To Upgrade Systems And Equipment At Krsko NPP In Slovenia Framatome, ENS Corporate Member, recently signed two contracts to upgrade systems and equipment used to manage operations at the Krško NPP in Slovenia. The company will design, deliver and install new instrumentation and control (I&C) systems and replace the thimble tubes, which are an…
“Nuclear power in the near future of the energy transition” – AIN Webinar This is a report on the last AIN (Associazione Italiana Nucleare) webinar, written by the Italian Nuclear Association and translated by ENS. The webinar “Nuclear power in the near future of the energy transition”, organised by the Italian Nuclear Association (AIN), took…
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…
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…
EU Commission Plans To Include Nuclear In The European Taxonomy The European Commission announced on 21 April its decision to include nuclear energy in a complementary Delegated Act of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. The Delegated Act, which will be consistent with the conclusions of a Joint Research Centre report on nuclear power, will confirm the…
The French Recovery Plan Includes Funds For Framatome Nuclear Projects Framatome nuclear projects were selected to receive funding as part of the “France Relance” recovery plan, several French ministers announced last week. The Framatome projects selected are focused on investing in new activities and modernizing the nuclear energy industry. Funding from the France Relance plan…