IAEA Positively Concluded Two Missions To Croatia And Belgium During the last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) successfully concluded two more missions to Europe. Delegations to Croatia and Belgium, made by international, independent experts and IAEA staff, provided advice and reviews on different aspects linked to nuclear and radiation safety, and radioactive waste management in…
Framatome And EDF Cooperate To Test EATF In French Reactor Framatome and EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a collaboration agreement to test its enhanced accident-tolerant fuel (EATF) technology in an operating nuclear power plant in France. As part of its PROtect EATF programme, Framatome will manufacture and deliver four lead fuel assemblies (LFAs) that…
Belgium Confirms The Extension Of NPPs Operations By 10 Years On 29th June 2023, ENGIE (ENS Corporate Member) and the Belgian Government signed an agreement specifying the terms of the extension of the nuclear reactors Doel-4 and Tihange-3. This agreement incorporates the non-binding agreement in principle signed on 9th January 2023 and specifies the following…
CEA Starts New Studies On Nuclear For Space Exploration CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, ENS Corporate Member) is going to start new feasibility studies on nuclear propulsion in space on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). Nuclear propulsion, with its propulsive efficiency far superior to that of the chemical engines…
IAEA Successfully Completed Two Missions In Europe This month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) successfully concluded two missions to the Netherlands and Bulgaria. Both delegations, made by international, independent experts and IAEA staff, provided advice and reviews on different aspects linked to nuclear and radiation safety in the two European countries. The Integrated Regulatory…
Tractebel, EDF And NUWARD Signed A New Agreement On SMR Project Tractebel, EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) and NUWARD signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement to strengthen and extend their collaboration in the development of the NUWARD Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. With this long-term agreement to support the project, Tractebel will allocate more resources to NUWARD…
A New Age Of Innovation In The Nuclear Sector Guerric de Crombrugghe Winter 1848, a carpenter by the name of James Wilson Marshall finds gold in a river near Sacramento. This discovery marked the beginning of the California Gold Rush, which would have a profound impact on the United States. It brought around 300,000 people,…
SCK CEN And TerThera Collaborate To Secure Terbium-161 Supply SCK CEN (ENS Corporate Member) and TerThera signed an agreement to handle together the production process of Terbium-161, a promising novel radionuclide for cancer treatment. Terbium-161 can meet the growing demand in cancer healthcare, exhibiting comparable (radio)chemical characteristics to known radiolanthanides. Targeted cancer therapies with Terbium-161 are expected…
Romania Signed The Support Agreement For Cernavoda-3 And -4 The Romanian government and the national nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica signed a support agreement which allows the start of the next phase of the project to construct two new units at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant. Indeed, the Phase II of the project includes the conclusion of…
Nuclear Energy And The European Energy Policy At The Crossroad… Marc Deffrennes The title of this short article can be understood in two ways: is it nuclear energy which is at the crossroad, or the European Energy Policy? In fact, both. The time has indeed come for a paradigm shift. The time has come to…