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Italy’s Enel and Ansaldo Nucleare have signed a collaboration agreement to examine and evaluate new technologies and business models for the generation of nuclear energy, including small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors (AMRs), and their industrial applicability.

Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenel-and-ansaldo-assess-deployment-of-advanced-reactors-in-italy-11600683

Chinese-French TAC-1 (CNPE) consortium has won a contract for the sub-assembly of modules for the vacuum vessel of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction at Cadarache in southern France. The consortium includes China Nuclear Power Engineering (a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation - CNNC); China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Company Ltd; Southwestern Institute of Physics; Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ASIPP; and France’s Framatome.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschinese-french-consortium-to-assemble-iter-vacuum-chamber-11594527

Italy's Enel and Ansaldo Nucleare have agreed to jointly examine and evaluate new technologies and business models for the generation of nuclear energy - such as small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors - and their industrial applicability.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Italian-firms-assess-advanced-reactor-deployment

The Sino-French TAC-1 consortium - led by China National Nuclear Corporation subsidiary China Nuclear Power Engineering and including Framatome - has been awarded a contract to assemble the vacuum chamber modules of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in Cadarache, southern France.

Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contract-for-ITER-vacuum-vessel-assembly

Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare, a subsidiary of Ansaldo Energia, along with insurance-financial group SACE (wholly-owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support Romanian nuclear utility Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) in the expansion of the Cernavoda NPP. The MOU aims to structure a financing line of up to €2bn ($2.15bn) with the insurance support of SACE to advance the development and financing of strategic projects related to the Cernavoda NPP. These include extending the operating life of unit 1 by 30 years completing construction of two additional units (3&4).

Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansaldo-and-sace-to-support-romanian-nuclear-development-11531779

Italian finance and insurance group SACE, Ansaldo Nucleare and Romania's Nuclearelectrica have signed a memorandum of understanding relating to the life extension of Cernavoda unit 1 and the development of units 3 and 4.

Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ansaldo-Nucleare,-SACE-and-Nuclearelectrica-sign-C

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai, is to collaborate in a nuclear shipping project with UK start-up Core Power and US Southern Company and TerraPower. This followed a joint research and technology exchange meeting at Terrapower’s headquarters in Washington DC.

Date: Saturday, 10 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskorean-shipbuilder-joins-nuclear-shipping-project-11502161

The first of five vacuum vessel sectors under the responsibility of Fusion for Energy (F4E) - the Iter Organisation's European domestic agency - is undergoing factory acceptance tests. The component has already passed leak testing and its dimensions will now be checked.

Date: Wednesday, 07 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-European-made-ITER-vessel-sector-awaits-ship

Geneva-based Transmutex SA has announced new round of financing to develop its nuclear energy technology”. The Swiss startup, founded in 2019 by scientists from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) including Federico Carminati and Jean-Pierre Revol along with entrepreneur Franklin Servan-Schreiber.

Date: Thursday, 01 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstransmutex-raises-finance-for-thorium-fuelled-subcritical-nuclear-system-11477008