Westinghouse’s Fuel Collaborations on Current and New Technologies Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) has recently signed new agreements focusing on nuclear fuel for operational and new technologies. First, WEC and ENUSA renewed their 50-year long partnership with a new Technology Agreement (WETCA), which extends the current license agreement for 10 years. Westinghouse…
Tractebel To Support HEXANA In Developing Its SMR Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) signed a new partnership to support the French start-up HEXANA in developing its design of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR). HEXANA, a spin-off from CEA (ENS Corporate Member), aims to develop an SMR featuring a sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor, integrated with a high-temperature storage device.…
Framatome and IBA To Partner To Advance Scale-Production Of Astatine-211 Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) and IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., EURONEXT) announced the signature of a Memorandum Of Understanding to start a strategic partnership aimed at advancing industrial-scale production of Astatine-211 (211At), an alpha-emitting radioisotope across Europe and the United States. 211At is a highly…
Deep Atomic Joins ENS As A New Corporate Member Following the approval of the General Assembly of ENS, we are glad to announce that Deep Atomic has joined the European Nuclear Society as a new Corporate Member, effective 12th December 2024. It is great to see the ENS community growing and cooperating with the top European companies in the nuclear…
Westinghouse To Continue Developing Space Microreactor Concept Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) announced that NASA, working with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has selected the company to continue the development of a space microreactor design through the Fission Surface Power (FSP) project. The FSP project is focused on developing concept designs for small,…
Tractebel To Support Steady Energy Developing LDR-50 SMR Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) signed a contract with Finnish technology developer Steady Energy to provide engineering services to develop Steady Energy’s LDR-50 SMR, aimed at providing clean district heating and industrial steam. Steady Energy has already struck agreements for 15 reactors in Finland and is expanding to…
One in Two Italians in Favour of Nuclear Energy, Poll Finds Almost one Italian out of two is in favour of nuclear energy and its inclusion in the country’s future energy mix. This is the result of a recent opinion poll, conducted by SWG and presented at the VI edition of the Intelligence Week conference…
Framatome To Study Medical Radioisotopes Production At Argentinian NPPs Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) and Nucleoeléctrica Argentina have signed an agreement to conduct a pre-feasibility study on installing systems for producing short-lived radioisotopes, such as Lutetium-177, at the nuclear power plants operated by the Argentine company: Atucha I, Atucha II, and Embalse. The study is expected…
Dr Chiara Favaretto wins the ENS High Scientific Council PhD Award 2024 The ENS High Scientific Council brings together 25 scientists from 19 countries. For the 2024 edition of the ENS HSC PhD Award, the Council received twelve nominations from ENS member Societies: namely the Belgian, Bulgarian, Czech, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swiss, UK…
Nuclear energy will power Google, Amazon, and Microsoft’s server farms! How? And what’s the story behind it? Important developments in nuclear energy – big international tech companies are turning to small modular reactors, investing in SMR technology The last few weeks have been extremely busy for international nuclear news. One after another, big technology companies…