Aerial inspections of electric overhead lines are a suitable tool to increase their reliability and thus also have an impact on increasing the reliability of the operation of nuclear power plants.

According to the management of the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS), training and improvement of knowledge and skills are not only current requirements, but also an integral part of daily activity. Being guided by this paradigm, SSTC NRS actively develops the popular work area such as education and training for experts of institutions and organizations acting in the field of nuclear energy and participates in various domestic and international educational projects.

Jacobs is embarking on a programme of advanced structural integrity testing that will give a better understanding of the fatigue behaviour of real plant components in light water power reactors.

Hydrogen Concentration Measurement System (HCMS) of 3rd generation for NPPs operating with VVER-440, VVER-1000 reactor types, designed and qualified for LOCA and severe accidents.

Radioactive waste often has to be encapsulated for long-term storage. Usually, it’s placed in a steel drum that is filled with cement. But now there is a lower cost and more environmentally friendly option: SIAL®, a geopolymer encapsulation technology developed by Jacobs.

Switzerland plans to construct an underground repository for its radioactive waste by 2050. Three sites are under consideration. Researchers at PSI are providing data that will help in determining which is most suitable.

Instead of automated sampling for noble gases and analysing stations, manual system can be used to better accommodate costs for the equipment and flexibility of usage. One of this system has been developed by the Traceability Laboratory at the ENEA Research center of Brasimone, which was specially designed in order to keep the sampling equipment separate from the processing and measurement.

For the period from 12th to 16th of July 2021, Ural Interregional Territorial Department of  Rostechnadzor for supervision of nuclear and radiation safety carried out an inspection of the completed construction of Cyclotron Centre for Nuclear Medicine with proton accelerator

An issue of Chimia was published about the status of radiochemistry research in Switzerland.

In the framework of the NUGENIA TA2 ASCOM collaborative project, the analyses of the capability of ASTEC code to simulate SMR phenomena/processes in DBA and postulated BDBA scenarios are currently under investigation.The current status of the activity is here summarized.