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An advanced nuclear reactor game plan
07 February, 2024
Benefits await for first movers on advanced reactor deployment at scale but a number of barriers much be overcome before that can become reality. A new report details both the scale of the challenge and the rewards.

EBRD’s Energy Sector Strategy ignores nuclear
20 December, 2023
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has released its Energy Sector Strategy 2024-28. EBRD says it “prioritises the urgent need to accelerate the decarbonisation of energy through scaling up renewables, enhancing grids and storage, promoting zero-carbon fuels and phasing out unabated fossil fuels.

France and Germany move towards resolving nuclear differences
19 October, 2023
The European Union (EU) Energy Council, meeting in Luxembourg, have reached agreement on reforming the EU electricity market, resolving the long-running dispute between France and Germany over the role of nuclear power. France has welcomed a decision that nuclear power should be included in future state-supported models, while Germany insisted that this must not lead to unfair competition through publicly funding ageing reactors abroad. The proposal now moves on to the European Parliament, where concessions on nuclear and coal power could still meet opposition.

GBN and the promise of net zero nuclear
18 October, 2023
With the pressing need to meet ambitious Net Zero commitments, Great British Nuclear is a key step in the right direction as it fosters development of quick-to- build SMRs. But for all the promise of the UK emerging as a nuclear energy exporter there is still a long way to catch up.

Fuelling high temperature SMRs
30 August, 2023
High-Temperature Reactor Fuel Technology is needed for upcoming High-Temperature Small Modular Reactor projects to replace fossil fuels and to tackle climate change. Reviving HTR fuel technologies that were first developed decades ago opens the door to a new generation of low-carbon industrial heat processes

Keeping OL1 up on top with upgrades
15 February, 2023
In its latest long maintenance outage the TVO team conducted a wide range of maintenance and upgrading activities at OL1. Sauli Suoniemi, Maintenance Manager at OL1 And OL2 tells NEI about their strategy and its execution.

EU parliament supports 'green' label for gas, nuclear investments
07 July, 2022
The European Parliament has voted in favour of European Union (EU) rules labelling investments in gas and nuclear power as climate-friendly. Of the 639 lawmakers that voted, 278 supported a motion to block the EU gas and nuclear rules, while 328 opposed the motion, and 33 abstained. This fell short of the majority of 353 of the Parliament's total 705 lawmakers, which was required for the motion to be approved. The rules will apply from 2023, unless 20 of the EU's 27 member states in the European Council reject them.

Legal framework for nuclear ships
06 August, 2020
Iris Bjelica Vlajić discusses the legal framework and grounds for indemnity for nuclear ships

Contract awarded for new Pallas reactor
29 January, 2018
The new Pallas research reactor, which will replace the High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten in the Netherlands, will be designed and constructed by the Ichos consortium comprising Argentinean nuclear technology firm Invap, together with Croonwolter&dros and Mobilis, both part of TBI Holdings of the Netherlands.

Moving forward
14 December, 2016
The transportation of nuclear products has been going on for many years. But as Andrew Tunnicliffe reports it continues to face a variety of challenges today as the world evolves.

Chernobyl - 30 years on
28 March, 2016
Three decades on from the Chernobyl disaster work continues to clear and contain the site. Vince Novak*, director of nuclear safety at European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, tells NEI of the journey so far as the project ramps up.

China looks to export markets
17 November, 2015
In the past few weeks, China has signed nuclear deals with Argentina, Romania, South Africa and Ukraine, as well as finalising its participation with EDF Energy in the construction of the UK's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant.

EDF and China agree on Hinkley project
22 October, 2015
Electricite de France (EDF) and China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN) have signed a strategic investment agreement to build three new nuclear power plants in the UK as old reactors reach the end of their design life.

Aqueous, in situ primary circuit decontamination
19 June, 2014
A technology that removes activity and corrosion products from inner pipe and vessel surfaces yielded overall decontamination factors of 80-90 at Unterweser and Neckarwestheim 1, and factors as high as 150 for steam generator tubing. By Christian Topf, Luis Sempere-Belda, Kai Tscheschlok and Klaus Reuschle

MYRRHA accelerates towards reality
04 February, 2014
The world’s first prototype nuclear reactor to be driven by a particle accelerator took a step towards realization in 2013, with the signature of a major contract for front-end engineering and design work.

Shortage of qualified EU nuclear personnel
24 April, 2013
A comparison of the supply of nuclear experts by the nuclear education and training infrastructure in EU-27 and the demand by the nuclear energy sector of the EU has been carried out. Although at a country level the data is varied, the overall results showed that the supply of nuclear experts in the EU-27 in general covers at best only 70% of the demand for these experts within the nuclear energy sector. By Veronika Simonovska and Ulrik von Estorff

A topological method for NPP optimisation
20 September, 2011
The computer-based analysis of thousands of nuclear power plant parameters gathered in near real-time can improve nuclear power plant efficiency by flagging up novel links between parameters. By Massimo Teglia, Mario Zadra, Annalisa Perasso and Francesco Benvenuto



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