IAEA Completed The OSART Mission At Borssele NPP An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts concluded an 18-day Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) mission to the Borssele Nuclear Power Plant on 9 February to review operational safety at the plant on the request of the Dutch government. The OSART team, including 12 experts…
ANVS Granted The Construction Licence For The PALLAS Reactor On 15th February 2023, the Dutch regulator Nuclear and Radiation Protection Authority (ANVS) granted the Nuclear Energy Act licence for the construction of the PALLAS reactor. The licence becomes valid on 31 March pending any appeals. After a long preliminary process during which all safety documentation…
EPZ Welcomes The Dutch Government’s New Steps Forward On NPPs EPZ (ENS Corporate Member), the Dutch power company operating the Borssele nuclear power plant, welcomes the steps forward made by the country’s government to build new nuclear power plants in the Netherlands, and to extend the operating life of the existing plant. Last week, the Dutch…
Preparatory Works For The PALLAS Reactor Have Started Preparatory works to enable the realization of the construction of the PALLAS reactor have started. Work is currently underway to make the original access road to the Energy & Health Campus from the 1960s accessible. During the construction of the steel sheet pile structure around the work…
Dutch Cabinet Supports Construction Of PALLAS Research Reactor The Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Ernst Kuipers recently announced, that money has been set aside for the construction of the PALLAS reactor in Petten, North Holland, in the coming years. The ministry is reserving 30 million euros for the project this year and 129…
Thorizon Raises €12,5m To Develop Its Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Dutch company Thorizon, a spin-off from the Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (NRG, ENS Corporate Member), has raised €12.5 million for the development of a new generation of nuclear power plants. The ‘Thorium molten salt reactor’ developed by Thorizon will use long-lived waste in combination with the…
IAEA Mission On Ageing Management Of The High Flux Reactor In Petten From 21 to 28 June, a team of seven international experts visited NRG’s High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to examine the ageing management of installations. NRG celebrated the reactor’s sixtieth anniversary last year,…
NRG Safety Committee Approved Restart Solution For HFR In Petten The High-Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, Netherlands, did not start up on 20 January 2022, due to a leak in a water system. NRG (ENS Corporate Member) reported no risk to nuclear safety, man, or the environment. Since the discovery of the technical failure in…
PALLAS Receives Nature Permits To Build Advanced Research Reactor Environmental Service Noord-Holland Noord has granted a permit for the construction of the PALLAS-reactor and for the realization of the Nuclear Health Centre (NHC) under the Nature Conservation Act. The granting of the permit means that the company can continue with the realization of the building…
Petten HFR Will Produce Medical Isotopes Only With LEU The High Flux Reactor in Petten, operated by NRG, from now on produces only medical isotopes with low-enriched uranium (LEU). Until recently, the productions for NRG’s Belgian partner IRE were still based on high-enriched uranium, because IRE could not fully process low-enriched uranium. But now IRE…