Pozvánka na přednášku Ing. Jana Bartáka, Ph.D.
Srdečně Vás zveme na přednášku Ing. Jana Bartáka, Ph.D. na téma Jaderná energetika ve Francii - vývoj za poslední rok i nové perspektivy. Registraci je nutné provést do 25. 4. 2024 zde.
The VR-2 reactor project has won the Academy of Engineering Award
Experts from the Department of Nuclear Reactors of the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague have received another success; this year's award of the Czech Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic for the excellent technical project 2023 was the project Subcrititcal reactor VR-2. The preparation and management of the construction and commissioning of the reactor was done by the team of the Department of Nuclear Reactors (KJR), led by Ing. Jan Rataj Ph.D. and Ing. Filip Fejt, Ph.D.
Inactive testing of the VR-2 reactor successfully completed!
Last week, the last tests of the VR-2 subcritical reactor technology were carried out. These were mainly tests of water management, the control system and other components of the reactor. The next milestone will be obtaining a physical startup test permit. This means testing the VR-2 reactor with nuclear fuel!
The Finnish minister visited the reactors of our department
On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, a delegation led by Finnish Minister of Economy Mika Lintilä visited the school fission reactors of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FNSPE) in Troja, Prague. At the Department of Nuclear Reactors, visitors were welcomed by the rector of CTU, doc. Vojtěch Petráček, head of department Jan Rataj, head of reactor operation Filip Fejt and doc. Ľubomír Sklenka, who was at the beginning of the VR-2 project. The Finnish minister visited Prague as part of events connected with the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union. Jiří Ondruška from the Department of Strategy, Research and International Cooperation in Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic brought the delegation to the FNSPE. Representatives of the Řež Research Center also arrived and talked together about current issues of nuclear energy. The entire expedition then went on a tour of the VR-1 school reactor, and they also saw the progress of construction work on the VR-2 reactor, which should be launched later this year. "Of course, we also showed the fuel that we received as a gift from Finland's Aalto University back in 2018, when preparations for the construction of the second school reactor were already underway," explains Jan Rataj. KJR closely cooperates with this Finnish university, its students regularly come to Prague for a weekly course on the VR-1 reactor.
