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Press Release: Cryoplant installation completed for ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility
Another truck drives through the gates of Italy’s National Research Council in Padua, heading towards the premises of Consortium RFX. More equipment is on its way to MITICA (Megavolt ITER Injector and Concept Advancement) – an experiment which will test the potential of a Neutral Beam Injector (NBI) prototype similar to that of ITER.
Press Release: Reactor design to make nuclear waste less radioactive
High-level nuclear waste includes long-lived and high-radiotoxic radionuclides. An EU-funded project helps to solve this issue by carrying out the research needed to build a facility that is capable of splitting material with long radioactive half-lives into radionuclide products with 1 000 times shorter half-lives.
Press Release: Energy production and imports
The dependency of the European Union (EU) on energy imports, particularly of oil and natural gas, forms the backdrop for policy concerns relating to the security of energy supplies. This article looks at the production of primary energy within the EU and, as a result of the shortfall between production and consumption, the EU’s increasing dependency on energy imports from non-member countries. Indeed, more than half (55.1 %) of the EU-28’s gross available energy in 2017 came from imported sources.
Press Release: Europe and Japan celebrate major milestone in validating LIPAc
To get closer to commercial fusion power we need to invest in materials able to withstand conditions similar to those of DEMO, the fusion device that will follow ITER. Europe and Japan have agreed to develop LIPAc – a prototype accelerator to validate the design of the low energy part of a neutron source facility aiming to qualify materials.
Event: 8th International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning (Aachen, Germany, 12-14 November 2019)
ICOND will enable participants to proficiently discuss the challenges of the decommissioning of nuclear plants in a practical way, and to define optimal planning variants for decommissioning implementation. Simultaneous translation (German/English/Russian) will be available.
Press Release: Commentary – Three priorities for energy technology innovation partnerships
Governments around the world are setting increasingly ambitious climate targets while at the same time pursuing challenging national policy goals such as affordable and sustainable energy for all. In many cases, achieving these goals will require technologies that either do not yet exist, or are not yet ready for market, meaning innovation will be critical. Technology innovation can be a game changer across all sectors, including power generation, industry, buildings and transport.
Question for Written Answer: Cracks in the base of the Akkuyu nuclear reactor
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Press Release: Energy statistics – an overview
This article provides an overview of the energy economy in the European Union (EU) in 2017, based on annual data from each Member State. Trends are shown for the main energy commodities for primary energy production, imports and exports, gross inland consumption and final energy consumption.
Press Release: A pan-European approach to research on radioactive waste management
The European Commission is supporting a new European Joint research Programme on radioactive waste management, building on the far-reaching results of an EU-funded project that explored how best to pool resources, expertise and research and development efforts for the safe, efficient and secure treatment and storage of radioactive waste.
ACER Opinion No. 17/2019 on the ENTSO-E Summer Outlook Report 2019 and Winter Review 2018/2019
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Press Release: European Commission Joint Research Centre opens world-class laboratories to researchers
Researchers from across Europe will now have even more opportunities to use the Joint Research Centre’s state-of-the-art facilities: after a first round of the open access initiative, in which nearly 100 eligible proposals were received from 92 research institutions, further laboratories of the Commission’s in-house science and knowledge service are now available to external scientists. They will now also be able to run experiments on zero emission energy solutions and nuclear safety.
Press Release: The Belgian law extending the operating life of nuclear power stations Doel 1 and Doel 2 was adopted without the required environmental assessments being carried out first
UPDATED – Agenda: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (8 July 2019)
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Press Release: Electrifying success for MITICA High Voltage tests
Engineers from F4E, ITER Japan, Consorzio RFX, ITER Japan, ITER Organization, and the companies involved in the fabrication of the power supplies of MITICA – an experiment testing a Neutral Beam Injector (NBI) prototype similar to that of ITER – met in Padua to put their pieces of equipment to a series of tests.
Agenda: Working Party on Civil Protection (12 September 2019)
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OPP Meeting Summary: EP ENVI Committee – Exchange of views with Ms Krista Mikkonen Finnish Minister of Environment and Climate Change (23 July 2019)
OPP Meeting Summary: EP ITRE Committee – Exchange of views with Ms. Katri Kulmuni, Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs and Ms. Sanna Marin, Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications (23 July 2019)
A summary of the Committee’s exchange of views is now available.
Press Release: New database to monitor national energy use and CO2 emissions
The new on-line World Input-Output Database (WIOD) environmental accounts, launched today by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), helps to answer these, and similar questions through data on the industrial and household energy use of residents in more than 40 countries and their corresponding CO2 emissions for the period 2000-2016.
Press Release: Map of the week – Coastal Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear power accounts for almost 30% of the electricity produced in the European Union. In order to safely handle the enormous amounts of heat produced by nuclear fission, these power plants rely on a cooling system. As water is a great way to cool down a reactor, many plants are located along rivers and coasts where water is plentiful and free.
Report: Walking on Thin Ice – A Balanced Arctic Strategy for the EU
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Press Release: Release of certified reference material for nuclear decommissioning: Stainless steel disks containing 60Co.
The decommissioning of a nuclear installation is the final step in its lifecycle. It involves all activities from shutdown and removal of nuclear material to the environmental restoration of the site.
Press Release: EUROfusion TBM secondees take up duties at F4E Cadarache
F4E’s Test Blanket Modules (TBM) Team welcomes four new EUROfusion secondees who join the work in developing the TBM programme at F4E Cadarache.
Press Release: IEA hosts high-level meeting on technologies for a clean energy future
The International Energy Agency on 11 July hosted a discussion among leading global energy sector figures about technologies that can help to bring about a clean energy future, including hydrogen and nuclear power.
Press Release: Making Chornobyl more environmentally safe – Permanent shelter ready thanks to EU and international support
The management of the permanent shelter placed over the burnt out nuclear unit at Chornobyl has been handed to the Ukrainian authorities during an official ceremony held today.
