Ansaldo Nucleare, ENEA and Romania’s “ICN” Nuclear Research Institute have set up a consortium, known as Falcon, to produce a 4th generation reactor. The documents setting up the Falcon Fostering ALfred CONstruction Consortium have been signed in Bucharest in the presence of the Minister with delegated powers for Energy, Costantin Nita.
“The creation of the consortium is a success for the collaboration between public research and industry, and between ENEA and Ansaldo Nucleare”, commented Giovanni Lelli, president of ENEA. “Italian industry now has access to Romanian and EU funding to supply high technology components”.
The Consortium will now be opened up to numerous European organisations which have already expressed an interest. It is preparing to obtain the necessary resources, through “in-kind” mechanisms, to start work on the first stage of technological and planning development.
For the construction stage of the reactor, the Consortium plans to draw on EIB funding and the Cohesion Funds, to which Romania in particular has access in view of its status as a new member of the European Community.
Source: Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor. More news, in Italian, from the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany and Ireland.
