Westinghouse eVinci™ Microreactor Begins Pre-Licensing Process Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) has signed a service agreement with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to bring its eVinci™ microreactor closer to commercialization. The agreement initiates a Vendor Design Review (VDR) which is a pre-licensing technical assessment of the eVinci microreactor design. Westinghouse will execute both Phases…
Westinghouse and ENUSA To Cooperate On VVER-440 Fuel Fabrication Westinghouse Electric Company and ENUSA (both ENS Corporate Members) announced during the World Nuclear Symposium their intent to collaborate on VVER-440 fuel fabrication. There are currently 16 nuclear reactors in Europe operating with VVER-440 fuel and utilities in the region are actively looking for alternatives to…
Westinghouse And EDF To Cooperate On EnCore® ATF Technology Westinghouse Electric Company announced a partnership with EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore® enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This…
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…
Westinghouse Selected By NASA For Space Nuclear Design Project Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) has been selected by NASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to provide an initial design concept for a fission surface power system that could be ready to launch…
Westinghouse To Advance Micro-Reactors Deployment In North America Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) is signing several Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with North American research centres and universities to advance micro-reactors deployment in Canada and USA. Canada Westinghouse and the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) will jointly develop a project to locate an eVinci™ micro-reactor in…
Vattenfall Signed New Long-Term Nuclear Fuel Supply Contracts Nuclear fuel and the diversification of its suppliers is definitely a hot topic these last weeks. In Sweden, Vattenfall (ENS Corporate Member) has signed long-term supply agreements with Westinghouse Electric and Framatome (both ENS Corporate Members too) to secure fuel supply to the five nuclear reactors at…
Westinghouse and Framatome Boost Cooperation In Czech Nuclear Sector This week, ENS Corporate Members Westinghouse Electric Company and Framatome have signed several agreements aiming at boosting the cooperation in the Czech nuclear sector with the state power company ČEZ and other local companies. Westinghouse Signs More Agreements For Potential AP1000 Deployment In Czech Republic Last…
Westinghouse eVinci MicroReactors Received Government Funds Westinghouse (ENS Corporate Member) eVinci ™ Micro-Reactors received last week funding of CAN$27.2 million (€19.6 million) from the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), in order to boost the country’s zero-emissions efforts. This investment will support funding for the eVinci™ micro-reactor which will bring carbon-free, transportable, safe, and…