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UK-based nuclear start-up newcleo has signed a partnership agreement with the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) on development of newcleo's lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR).

Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-teams-up-with-cea-on-reactor-development-11676148

UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo has announced a strategic and industrial partnership with France's NAAREA designed "to support all players in their industrial, technological, scientific and regulatory development" of Generation IV fast neutron reactors.

Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-and-naarea-partner-to-support-fast-reactor-development-11445892

US-based TerraPower has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the UAE’s Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) on the sidelines of COP28 to explore opportunities for the commercialisation and global deployment of Terrapower’s Natrium technology. “Bringing advanced nuclear technologies to market is critical to meeting global decarbonisation targets,” said TerraPower President & CEO Chris Levesque. “TerraPower and ENEC are leading the way in deploying nuclear plants, and this agreement allows us to share our expertise and design experience, and explore the opportunity for deployment of Natrium reactors around the world including additional locations in the United States.”

Date: Thursday, 07 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrapower-signs-mous-with-enec-and-uranium-energy-corp-11351984

UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo three strategic partnerships at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris with Assystem, Ingérop and Onet Technologies to develop its lead-cooled fast reactor and innovative fuel in France. This is the latest in a long line of acquisitions and agreements undertaken since the company was established in 2021.

Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-partners-with-assystem-ingrop-and-onet-to-develop-lead-cooled-fast-reactor-11338690

Belgium, Italy and Romania have formed a consortium with US-based Westinghouse Electric to develop a small modular lead-cooled fast neutron reactor (SMR-LFR). Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the presence of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who was on an official visit to Brussels, and representatives from the Italian and US embassies in Belgium. The organisations taking part in the project, along with Westinghouse, are: Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare and National Agency for New Technologies, Energy & Sustainable Economic Development ENEA (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile); Romanian Atomic Energy Technology Company RATEN (Regia Autonoma Tehnologii pentru Energia Nucleara); and Belgian nuclear research centre SCK CEN.

Date: Saturday, 11 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-consortium-to-develop-and-globally-deploy-lead-cooled-fast-reactors-11286739

UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC), a UK government-backed Technology Innovation Centre based at the University of Sheffield. The MOU establishes an outline for a collaborative partnership to drive forward manufacturability, supply chain, and development studies for pioneering nuclear technologies.

Date: Saturday, 21 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-signs-mou-with-nuclear-amrc-11234390

UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo has signed a cooperation agreement with the Tosto Group, la manufacturer of large components and pressure equipment in the chemicals, oil & gas and energy sectors, including nuclear.

Date: Saturday, 14 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-signs-cooperation-agreement-with-tosto-group-11217418

UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining a framework for collaboration on advanced nuclear research and development.

Date: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnewcleo-and-nll-to-collaborate-on-advanced-reactor-development-11157910

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has recently published a 73-page study, which tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment. NEA says the SMR designs are at various stages of development, from fundamental research on new concepts to commercial deployment and operation of mature designs.

Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-development-tracked-by-nea-and-iaea-studies-10691068

Italy’s Enel Group and UK-based nuclear technology company newcleo have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly work on newcleo’s Generation IV nuclear technology projects. Enel will provide specialised expertise by sharing a number of the company’s qualified personnel. Newcleo agreed to secure an option for Enel as first investor in its first NPP, which it will build outside Italy.

Date: Friday, 17 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenel-and-newcleo-partner-on-generation-iv-reactors-10679899