Recently, a consortium has been formally set up for the construction of a demonstration lead-cooled fast reactor in Romania. The Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator (Alfred) is being developed under an EU initiative.
A memorandum of cooperation has been signed between Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) and Ansaldo Nucleare, as well as Romania's Nuclear Research Institute (Institutul de Cercetari Nucleare, ICN).
The group is to be known as the Fostering Alfred Construction (Falcon) consortium, which will be expanded by other European organizations which have already expressed their interest. Additional partners will be needed to raise the necessary resources to finalize the design and technology phase of the project.
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