Today the EUSEW Policy Conference will conclude, after another busy day of panel sessions discussing sustainable energy policy and innovation. Among the key issues to be debated are the future potential of fusion energy, the challenges faced by islands generating and storing clean energy, and how to reduce the environmental impact of the aviation sector. Full Article…
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Comitology Meeting: Committee for the nuclear decommissioning assistance programme (NDAP) (12 July 2017) premium
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Press Release: How will engineers maintain the components of the ITER Divertor?
One could try describing the ITER Divertor as a massive ashtray, consisting of 54 heavy metallic components known as “cassettes”, where the impurities of the fusion reaction will be driven to. These cassettes will take most of the heat from the super-hot plasma which will reach 150 million °C and during the lifetime of the Full Article…
Written Answer to a Question: Radioactivity and geothermal power on Amiata premium
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Written Answer to a Question: Stress tests on the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant premium
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UPDATED – Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: EU Contribution to a Reformed ITER Project premium
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Press Release: Importance of fusion to sustainable clean energy highlighted by several Governments during international energy ministerial conference
Fusion is the only long-term sustainable base-load energy solution – this message came across during the ministerial conference entitled “Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Energy” which took place 11 June in Astana, Kazakhstan. The European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union, Maroš Šefčovič, and Alexander Novak, the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, both spoke Full Article…
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Press Release: ITER shines bright as a future energy at the World EXPO 2017
One of the annual international events which has a long tradition of drawing attention to breakthrough innovative technologies, this year’s World Expo hosted in Astana, Kazakhstan, kicked off on 10 June and featured a futuristic glass-walled 80-metre-in-diameter central sphere surrounded by the nationally-themed pavilions of a 100 countries, the exhibits of ten international organizations, and Full Article…
Press Release: Improved storage facility for nuclear waste at JRC Ispra
An Interim Storage Facility (ISF) at JRC Ispra is set to host the nuclear waste from the site, including already existing waste and waste deriving from the ongoing decommissioning of the JRC Ispra nuclear installations. All nuclear waste from the Ispra site will be transported to the Italian National nuclear waste repository when this facility Full Article…
Press Release: State aid – Commission approves creation of €24 billion fund for management of radioactive waste in Germany
The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules the transfer of radioactive waste liabilities to a new public fund in return for the payment of about €24.1 billion by nuclear power plant operators. The Commission concluded that the state support is proportionate to the objective.
Press Release: European Commission presents a Communication on the revised schedule and budget estimates for the European contribution to ITER
On 14 June 2017, the European Commission adopted a communication presenting the revised schedule and budget estimates for European participation in the ITER project. A new baseline for the project plans the first experiments for 2025 and full power operation by 2035. Europe has played from the start a leading role in the project developed Full Article…
Factsheet: EU-Kazakhstan relations premium
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Press Release: Fusion as an energy source – the ITER project is back on track
Today the European Commission has adopted a communication presenting the revised schedule and budget estimates for European participation in the ITER project. This international project aims to build in Europe a key facility for testing the possibility of generating sustainable energy from fusion. A new baseline for the project plans the first experiments for 2025 Full Article…
Report: EURATOM Supply Agency Annual Report 2016 premium
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UPDATED – Comitology Meeting: INSC Committee (4 May 2017) premium
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Question for Written Answer: Decisions of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) premium
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Press Release: Start of hot trial at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) has taken another important step forward in the decommissioning process, managed by the EBRD, with the start of the hot trial, using radioactive materials, of the new Solid Radioactive Waste Management and Storage Facility (SWMSF, Project B2/3/4) today.
Agenda: 7th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context and 3rd Meeting Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (Minsk, 13-16 June 2017) premium
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Press Release: Winding the final conductor for Europe’s ITER Toroidal coils
Europe’s final conductor has been wound in the ASG Superconductors facility, Italy, where F4E is manufacturing the 10 winding packs— the core of the TF coils.
Official Journal (C Series): Commission Opinion of 6 June 2017 relating to the modified plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the Comurhex II site located at Malvési in France, in accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty premium
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Official Journal (L Series): Corrigendum to Council Decision (Euratom) 2017/956 of 29 May 2017 on the adoption of the 2016-2019 high flux reactor supplementary research programme to be implemented by the Joint Research Centre for the European Atomic Energy Community premium
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Study to assess 2 RoHS new exemption requests: #1 for cadmium in video cameras designed for use in environments exposed to ionising radiation, #2 for lead and cadmium in PVC profiles of electric windows and doors: final report premium
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Press Release: Vacuum Vessel – first parts manufactured by ENSA completed
ENSA (Equipos Nucleares S.A), as part of the AMW consortium, has achieved a key F4E milestone: the machining of two inner shell plates – the first pieces to be manufactured at ENSA – has been completed.
