Dear Readers, The launch of the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in May 2024 brought them to the forefront of European industry, developers, implementers, scientists, regulators, and general public, with the aim of accelerating their...
Within ECOSENS project a new study have been developed in WP3 which addresses the key weaknesses of the most relevant recent assessments of total costs of nuclear (and non-nuclear) energy, providing/enlarging a suite of indicators relevant for a variety of...
As part of ECOSENS WP2—focused on assessing the sustainability of the entire lifecycle of nuclear power—various participants have applied the ECOSENS methodology, which is based on the three pillars of sustainability: economic development, social development, and...
The short summary report from second ECOSENS Scientific Event held during RICOMET 2024 in June 2024, addressed the public participation in decisions related to SMRs which recently gained a lot of attention in many countries, also in those without major nuclear...
The short summary report from first ECOSENS Scientific Event held during RICOMET 2023 addressed the sustainability assessment methodology based also on societal perspective of Europe’s future energy system that includes advanced and innovative technologies including...
