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NuScale SMR simulator opens in Romania

NuScale SMR simulator opens in Romania

The first simulator for the control room of a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor power plant in Europe has opened at the University Politehnica of Bucharest in Romania. The simulator is the fifth in total, but the first outside the USA.

New Nuclear 15 May 2023


Augmented reality enhances radiation protection training

Augmented reality enhances radiation protection training

A method using augmented reality to create accurate visual representations of ionising radiation, developed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been licensed by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Teletrix, a firm that creates advanced simulation tools to train radiation control workers.

Regulation & Safety 10 May 2023


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Impact of evacuations on Zaporizhzhia 'closely monitored' by IAEA

Impact of evacuations on Zaporizhzhia 'closely monitored' by IAEA

The evacuation of people from the town of Energodar, where many of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's staff and their families live, is being closely monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with its director general warning the situation in the area was "increasingly unpredictable".

Regulation & Safety 09 May 2023


Viewpoint: The networks building bridges between youth and nuclear sector

Viewpoint: The networks building bridges between youth and nuclear sector

Anna Talarowska, chair of the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum 2023, on the importance for young people, and the wider nuclear sector, of Young Generation Networks and the biennial forum which is taking place in Krakow, Poland, from 8-12 May.

Perspectives 11 May 2023


New North American nuclear training programme launched

New North American nuclear training programme launched

Westinghouse Electric Company, Spanish engineering firm Tecnatom and US consulting and training services provider Accelerant Solutions have agreed to form the Nuclear Excellence Academy, a nuclear training programme for utilities in the USA and Canada.

Corporate 19 April 2023


Podcast: Gender balance in nuclear, and the EU's Net Zero Industry Act

Podcast: Gender balance in nuclear, and the EU's Net Zero Industry Act

An international survey has highlighted the need for a better gender balance in the nuclear sector, but how to achieve it? That's one of the issues discussed with Corhyn Parr, CEO of Nuclear Waste Services. Plus Nucleareurope's Andrei Goicea on nuclear's place in the EU's Net Zero Industry Act.

Perspectives 01 April 2023


Viewpoint: Driving evolution in leadership across the nuclear sector

Viewpoint: Driving evolution in leadership across the nuclear sector

Attracting, developing, supporting and retaining the right leaders will help determine the destiny of the nuclear sector in the coming years, writes Callum Thomas, CEO of Thomas Thor.

Perspectives 17 March 2023


AUKUS-focused university collaboration agreed

AUKUS-focused university collaboration agreed

South Australia's Flinders University has signed agreements with universities in the USA and UK that will enable the Australian university to begin developing the specialist skills needed to underpin the future construction of nuclear submarines under the Australia-United Kingdom-United States security partnership.

Corporate 24 March 2023


GSE to upgrade Finnish simulators

GSE to upgrade Finnish simulators

US company GSE Systems Inc has been awarded a contract by Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima Oyj to upgrade the training simulators for units 1 and 2 of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant.

Corporate 16 March 2023


Getting more women in nuclear 'crucial to hitting climate targets'

Getting more women in nuclear 'crucial to hitting climate targets'

If the ambitious targets for nuclear expansion around the world are to be met more women need to be attracted to the sector, according to a Nuclear Energy Agency report on the international gender balance in the nuclear sector released to mark International Women's Day.

Nuclear Policies 08 March 2023