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Japan has completed its first 360-tonne D-shaped toroidal field coil for the Iter international fusion project under construction in France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-completes-its-first-superconducting-coil-for-iter-7755356
Italian state shipyard Fincantieri has been awarded an order, worth almost €100 million ($110m), for several high-profile systems, components and installations as part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) project.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsitalian-shipyard-wins-iter-contract-7741850
Spanish manufacturer Equipos Nucleares SA (ENSA) has completed the installation of three heat exchangers for the primary circuit of the Jules Horowitz Reactor (RJH), under construction at Cadarache in southern France. Once in operation, the reactor will be used for testing of materials and fuels for current and future nuclear reactor designs.
ENSA manufactured and installed the heat exchangers as part of Spain's contribution to the development and construction of the RJH. It completed hydraulic testing of the large components in June 2018. The company said the operation to manoeuvre and install the heat exchangers was complicated by the limited space within the reactor building.
RJH is being built under the framework of an international consortium of research institutes from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the European Commission, plus major companies such as EDF, Framatome and TechnicAtome. Partners from India and Japan have also joined the consortium and the door remains open to more potential European or international partners. The project forms part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, and is one of three new research reactors forming the cornerstones of the European Research Area of Experimental Reactors, alongside the Myrrha accelerator-driven research reactor at Mol in Belgium and the Pallas reactor at Petten in the Netherlands.
France's national energy research commission, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), is funding 50% of the total EUR500 million (USD551 million) construction cost, with the remainder coming from EDF (20%), the research institutes (20%) and Framatome (10%). Operated by the CEA, the RJH will replace the 70 MWt Osiris reactor, which itself took over some of the roles of the 35 MWt Siloé reactor. Site preparations for the 100 MWt light water cooled reactor began in March 2007, with first concrete for its basemat poured in August 2009. The 105-tonne dome for the containment building of the pool-type reactor was raised by crane and lowered into place on 13 December 2013. Civil engineering work for the reactor building was completed in March 2017.
The modular design of RJH will be highly versatile and able to accommodate some 20 simultaneous experiments. Over its anticipated 50-year lifespan it will be used for studies on materials used in the nuclear power reactors of today and tomorrow, as well as testing fuels for current and future reactors. The instrumentation to be used with the reactor will allow hitherto unavailable real-time analysis to be performed. The reactor will also play a vital role in producing radioisotopes for use in nuclear medicine across Europe in coordination with existing NRG production facilities at Petten in the Netherlands.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Heat-exchangers-in-place-at-Jules-Horowitz
Fusion for Energy (F4E) has extended the ITER Architect Engineer contract with Engage until 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 December 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmajor-iter-contract-extended-7563341
The loading of fuel into the core of the Olkiluoto 3 has been delayed until June next year because of slow progress of the system tests and shortcomings in spare part deliveries, the Areva-Siemens consortium has informed Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO). Grid connection of the EPR is now scheduled for November, with the start of regular electricity production expected in March 2021.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 December 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/System-tests-further-delay-Finnish-EPR-start-up
Camfil France, working with MC Air Filtration UK, announced it has won a significant order to supply filtration packages for the new EPRs under construction at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscamfil-wins-hinkley-point-c-filtration-contract-7492121
Leonam Guimaraes, president of Brazil's state nuclear power company Eletronuclear, told Reuters that Brazil plans to complete the delayed unit 3 at its Angra NPP in partnership with either China's National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), France's EDF or Russia state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbrazil-seeks-partners-to-complete-angra-3-7478476
Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union (EU) organisation managing Europe’s contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) under construction in France, has awarded a contract to Spanish GDES Group’s Surface Treatment Unit for the application of specific coatings to the Iter buildings.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 01 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsspains-gdes-wins-iter-contract-7430607
The ITER Organization has awarded a €200 million contract for Tokamak Assembly to DYNAMIC, a consortium comprising Ansaldo Nucleare, Endel Engie, Orys Group ORTEC, SIMIC, Leading and Ansaldo Energia.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscontact-for-iter-tokamak-assembly-7433837