EcoSMR, a Network to Strenght Finnish Expertise on Small Modular Reactors The EcoSMR (Finnish Ecosystem for Small Modular Reactors) project, funded by Business Finland, brings together Finnish actors to develop business around the possibilities of small modular reactors. The project analyzes the requirements, licensing and business opportunities of nuclear technology and supports their development to…
Virtual Modelling Expertise To Keep Nuclear Projects On Track Virtual modelling expertise as a key in overcoming project delivery challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. This is the core of the new collaboration between the UK shipyard and maritime engineering company Cammell Laird and the University of Liverpool. Cammell Laird has called upon experts at…
Consortium of 15 Companies Launches Clean Energy Hub in the UK Fifteen companies and trade unions, which support clean energy programmes, announced proposals for a Clean Energy Hub based at Moorside in Cumbria, UK. The Moorside Hub, which includes French EDF, British engineering company Atkins and nuclear services firms Cavendish Nuclear and Bilfinger, aims to promote…
Rosatom – Technologies and Solutions for SMRs Artem Larionov of Rosatom Overseas told the last webinar organised by European Nuclear Society that R&D work on fuel for the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) plant has begun. The reactor technology will be based on Russia’s RITM-200 plant, an advanced pressurised water reactor (PWR) unit which is already operational on three…
Framatome technology for Holtec SMR-160 Holtec International has selected Framatome to supply nuclear fuel for the SMR-160 small modular reactor. Holtec and Framatome have entered into an agreement to enable completion of all necessary engineering to fuel the SMR-160 with Framatome’s commercially available and well-proven 17 x 17 GAIA fuel assembly. By adapting the SMR-160…
VTT to develop SMR for district heating VTT Technical Research Center in Finland has already begun the first phase of a project to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for district heat production in Finland. This project also creates the opportunity to develop a new Finnish industrial sector around the SMR technology and the production…