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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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 01 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstransmutex-raises-finance-for-thorium-fuelled-subcritical-nuclear-system-11477008
Italy’s Lower House of Parliament has passed two motions aimed at reversing Italy’s earlier decision to abandon nuclear energy. The text commits the government to “consider including nuclear power as an alternative and clean source of energy production in the national energy mix” so as to “accelerate Italy’s decarbonisation process.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsitaly-may-reconsider-nuclear-power-10852845
As part of the research into lead-cooled reactors, the consortium that unites Ansaldo Nucleare and Reinvent Energy (Romania) has been awarded a contract worth around €20 million ($22.5m) for the design, procurement, installation and commissioning of the Athena experimental plant - a research facility for the development of lead-cooled reactors.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 26 November 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansaldo-nucleare-signs-contract-for-lead-cooled-reactor-9277875
A consortium including Italy's Ansaldo Nucleare and Romania's Reinvent Energy has been awarded a contract worth about EUR20.0 million (USD22.5 million) for the design, procurement, installation and commissioning of a research facility for the development of lead-cooled reactors. The Advanced Thermo-Hydraulics Experiment for Nuclear Application (ATHENA) facility will be built at the RATEN-ICN research centre near Pitesti in southern Romania.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contract-for-Romanian-lead-cooled-reactor-research
Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Fostering ALFRED Construction (Falcon) consortium regarding cooperation on the development of the Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator (ALFRED). A demonstration unit is planned to be constructed in Romania.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclearelectrica-to-cooperate-in-development-of-AL
A used fuel reprocessing plant in the southern Urals region of Russia is the most likely source of a release of the isotope ruthenium-106 detected across Europe in late 2017, a study has concluded. No incident has, however, been reported at the Mayak facility or any other Russian nuclear facility and Rosatom has always maintained this.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Study-points-to-Mayak-as-source-of-ruthenium-relea
The second and final shipment of high-level waste (HLW) from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power plants at Sellafield.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 17 October 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-completes-return-of-Swiss-reprocessing-waste
A consortium has been formally set up for the construction of a demonstration lead-cooled fast reactor in Romania. The Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator (Alfred) is being developed under an EU initiative.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 December 2013
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Consortium-established-to-build-Alfred
Nuclear will continue to decline according to a new report written from an antinuclear point of view. At this point there is no obvious sign that the international nuclear industry could turn the decline into a promising future, it says.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 27 August 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-decline-set-to-continue-says-report