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…
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,…
Vattenfall Exploring Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production At Ringhals Vattenfall (ENS Corporate Member) has decided to start a new project to produce clean hydrogen using electricity generated from offshore wind and nuclear. The Swedish company said it has received permission from the national grid regulator Svenska kraftnät to proceed with the deployment of the 1.2 GW Kattegatt…
Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Advance In Testing LFR Ansaldo Nucleare and Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Members) announced this week a milestone achievement in their work on Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) with the completion of the first testing campaign at the Passive Heat Removal Facility, recently built at the Ansaldo Nuclear plant in Wolverhampton (UK). The…
ENS Welcomes The Nuclear Alliance Declaration European Nuclear Society together with its High Scientific Council truly welcomes today’s recognition by sixteen European countries on the importance of nuclear technology and science for resilient and independent Europe. Yesterday’s statement of ministers from Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Slovakia,…
Framatome And Vattenfall To Cooperate On Ringhals NPP Modernisation Framatome and Vattenfall (both ENS Corporate Members) announced new contracts for the modernisation of the Swedish Ringhals nuclear power plant. According to the agreement, Framatome will modernise the plant’s reactor control system using its proven digital instrumentation and control (I&C) TELEPERM XS platform. The modernisation also…
Westinghouse Unveiled Its AP-300 SMR Last 4th May, Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) launched its newest nuclear technology, the AP300™ small modular reactor (SMR), a 300-MWe single-loop pressurized water reactor. The AP300 SMR design is scaled from the AP1000® reactor and could be under construction at a cost of $1bn per unit by the…
“Nuclear medicine has a great unexplored potential” Interview with Anthony Waked, PhD Fellow at SCK CEN – Belgian Nuclear Research Centre and the University of Liège, Belgium In the past decade, research has made tremendous progress and medical isotopes are expected to become a vital tool in the treatment of many types of cancers in…
European Nuclear Society High Scientific Council’s Statement on Small Modular Reactors Today’s European Union Declaration on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) marks an important step towards the decarbonised and autonomous Europe. Climate change is a tremendous threat to human well-being and our societies. The ever-more alarming messages on anthropogenic climate change, as expressed by the IPCC,…