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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Public opinion: country by country views
23 July, 2010
A round up of recent public opinion survey findings in Russia, Japan, USA and Canada.. By Caroline Peachey

A divided Europe
23 July, 2010
Most European citizens would maintain or decrease Europe’s share of nuclear energy. But this view is not shared across the EU, nor is it the global perspective. By Caroline Peachey

Fingers on the pulse
15 January, 2010
A major modernization of a nuclear power plant–such as the power uprate at E.ON’s Oskarshamn 3–is difficult because it has to integrate existing parts with both replacements and add-ons while using existing documentation and administration. By Mats Ekblad and Tord Sterner

A view to 2030
03 November, 2009
A new European forecast predicts 70GW of nuclear new build by 2030, even after wide-ranging uprating and PLEX, to meet expected demand. By Jacques Leclercq, with Guy Bettoun and Jacques David

Korea’s star of fusion
10 August, 2009
One year ago South Korea’s fusion research facility successfully produced its first plasma. Now, the country is using the experience it gained building KSTAR to produce components for ITER. By Young Ho Cho

Concrete progress
20 February, 2009
Iter is progressing despite the global recession. Testing of prototype remote handling machines has started on a mock-up of the divertor region, while building foundations will be laid later this year. By Caroline Peachey and Keith Nuthall

Eurobarometer’s agenda
22 August, 2008
A recent European survey showed a marked increase in support for nuclear power, with opinions now almost equally divided between those for and against.

What do the polls tell us?
12 September, 2005
Public support for nuclear now outweighs opposition in the UK for the first time in over five years. By Robert Knight