MEPs in the two responsible committees objected on Tuesday to the inclusion of nuclear and gas in the list of environmentally sustainable economic activities. In a joint meeting of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on Tuesday 14 June, MEPs adopted an objection to the Commission’s proposal to […]
EURATOM: Safety Research and Innovation for Partitioning and/or Transmutation
This action will reinforce the important Euratom research undertaken in previous programmes and will represent real progress towards the safe realisation of P&T processes, a key component of future fuel cycle strategies, whether sub-critical ADS or fourth generation critical reactors. This research will improve the efficiency and safety of processes using state-of-the-art P&T technology for […]
EURATOM: Advancing nuclear education for future generations
This project to advance nuclear education for the next generations is part of the EURATOM sub-programme of the Horizon 2020 Programme. One of the main concerns in nuclear sector is a loss of the younger generation’s interest for specialized nuclear knowledge and a risk that the current workforce, progressively retiring, couldn’t be replaced. Highly educated […]