Steps Forward for the PALLAS Reactor NRG PALLAS (ENS Corporate Member) announced the completion of the construction pit and the foundation, marking the end of this phase of the PALLAS project. This has laid the foundation for the next phase of construction. The arrival of the PALLAS-reactor is crucial for the production of medical isotopes.…
MARIA Research Reactor To Be Modernised By 2027 On 20th June 2023, the Council of Ministers of Poland adopted a resolution on the MARIA nuclear research reactor modernisation programme, so as to enable its operation beyond 2027. The MARIA reactor is currently the only and unique research facility of this type in Poland and in…
A New Training Reactor Started Operations At CTU In Prague On 6th June, the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague launched the second training fission nuclear reactor VR-2. The Faculty launched the VR-2 exactly a year after the announcement of the construction licence issued by the State…
NCBJ And JAEA To Boost Research And Development In HTGRs On November 22, in Tokyo, the President of the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mr. Koguchi Masanori and the Director of the Polish National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Prof. Krzysztof Kurek signed an Implementing Arrangement regarding the institution’s cooperation in research and development in…
High Flux Reactor In Petten Started Up In Advance The High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, operated by NRG (ENS Corporate Member) started up a day early after maintenance to increase the availability of medical isotopes. The HFR has about 260 production days per year and has regular short maintenance shutdowns, and twice a year…
Medical Isotopes – International Experts Call For Action To Secure Supply International experts from irradiating reactors, other isotope producers, and direct users urgently call for a long-term strategy to prevent a critical shortage of research and production capacities. They jointly ask for a common framework that stimulates much needed policy changes and investments. The high-level…
Westinghouse To Decommission Norway’s Research Reactors Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) announced last week a major engineering contract with Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) to plan the decommissioning of the country’s two nuclear research reactors located in Halden and Kjeller. The three-year agreement includes options up to six years and is valued up to $100…
Westinghouse Starts AP1000® Plant License Process in Ukraine Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) has signed a new contract with Energoatom, Ukraine’s national nuclear power company, to provide AP1000® plant technical information in support of Energoatom’s feasibility study update for the construction of two AP1000 reactors at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in Ukraine. 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,…
European Research Reactor Conference 2022 – The Report The European Research Reactor Conference 2022 took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 10 June 2022. It has been a successful edition, which had more than 140 participants from all over the world and offered high-quality presentations and content. The 4-day programme included several Sessions, presenting…