Consortium onder leiding van Westinghouse bereikt mijlpaal voor diversificatie kernbrandstof voor Europese reactoren met Russisch ontwerp
VÄSTERÅS, Zweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Westinghouse Electric Company en zijn acht Europese consortiumpartners hebben een belangrijke mijlpaal breikt voor de diversificatie van de kernbrandstofaanbod in Europa. Het consortium heeft het concept-ontwerp voor een nieuwe brandstof voor VVER-440-reactoren goedgekeurd. Het concept is een verbeterde versie van een ouder brandstofproduct van Westinghouse, dat van 2001 tot 2007 werd geleverd aan de kerncentrale in het Finse Loviis.
“Met dit belangrijke initiatief stimuleren we de energieveiligheid van Europa, omdat het voorziet in kernbrandstof van VVER-440-reactoren van Russische makelij”, zei Aziz Dag, vicepresident van Westinghouse voor Noord- en Oost-Europa. “Westinghouse legt zich toe op de levering van een innovatief VVER-440-ontwerp dat klanten superieure veiligheid en kwaliteit biedt, maar ook zekerheid over de brandstofvoorraad.”
Westinghouse-Led Consortium Achieves Milestone in Diversification of Fuel Supply for Russian-Designed Reactors in Europe |
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VÄSTERÅS, Sweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Westinghouse Electric Company and its eight European consortium partners have achieved a key milestone in the diversification of the nuclear fuel supply in Europe. The consortium has approved the conceptual fuel design for the VVER-440 assemblies, which is an enhanced version of a previous Westinghouse fuel product that was delivered to Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant in Finland from 2001-2007. “Through this important initiative, we are fueling Europe’s energy security by providing fuel to Russian-designed VVER-440 reactors,” said Aziz Dag, Westinghouse vice president, Northern and Eastern Europe. “Westinghouse is committed to delivering an innovative VVER-440 design that offers customers superior safety and quality, as well as security of supply.” The next steps include completion of the associated methods and methodology to be applied for the licensing and use of the new fuel design in each of the European countries. All key activities are on time and the program will be completed by October of 2017. Westinghouse has been leading the project known as European Supply of Safe Nuclear Fuel (ESSANUF) since September 2015. Its partners include VUJE, ÚJV Řež, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), NucleoCon, National Science Center Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Karlsruhe (JRC-Karlsruhe) and Enusa Industrias Avanzadas (ENUSA). The program is funded by the European Union’s (EU’s) Euratom Research and Training Programme (2014-2018) which forms part of Horizon 2020 (H2020), the EU’s Research and Innovation program (Grant Agreement 671546). View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170530005669/en/ Contacts Westinghouse Electric Company |
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