罗马尼亚为建造一座示范性铅冷快堆，正式组建了一家财团。基于欧盟的倡议，正在开发“欧洲先进铅冷示范快堆”（Alfred)意大利国家新技术、能源和环境局（ENEA）和意大利安萨尔多核工程公司以及罗马尼亚核研究所（ICN）开始实施Alfred的建造。罗马尼亚能源部长康斯坦丁·尼塔与三方合作机构的代表参加了在布加勒斯特举行的签字仪式。

该合作机构被称为“促进Alfred建造”财团(Falcon)，该机构还将通过进一步增加未透露名称的欧洲组织而得到扩大，那些欧洲组织已表示对该项目感兴趣。

他合作方还需增加必要的资源，以最终通过项目的设计和技术阶段。这家财团旨在通过欧盟利用欧洲投资银行为新成员国经营的研发基础设施投入资金，使反应堆的建造获得财政支持。项目总成本估计约10亿欧元（约14亿美元）。

  五个与先进核反应堆技术相关的研究与发展(R&D)项目接收到了美国能源部提供的支持资金，共1300万美元。所有被资助的研究项目将通过公私合作模式（PPP）执行。

  原文如下：

  Five R&D projects supporting advanced reactor technologies have been selected to receive $13 million of cost-share funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE). All of the research is being carried out by public-private partnerships.

  The nuclear companies leading the five projects are Areva Federal Services, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, General Atomics, NGNP Industry Alliance and Westinghouse Electric Company.

  Partnered by TerraPower Company, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Texas A&M University, Areva Federal Services will receive funding for work on modelling and simulation for longer life cores, including thermal hydraulic simulations and experimental investigation for liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel assemblies.

  GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, in partnership with ANL, will receive funding for development and modernization of next-generation probabilistic risk assessment methodologies. General Atomics' partnership with the University of California at San Diego and the University of South Carolina receives funding for fabrication and testing complex silicon carbide structures pertinent to advanced reactor concepts.

  The final two projects receiving the DoE funding are work on high temperature gas reactor post-accident heat removal and testing by NGNP Industry Alliance partnering with Areva, UltraSafe Nuclear Company, Westinghouse, and Texas A&M University, and the development of thermo-acoustic sensors for sodium-cooled fast reactors led by Westinghouse in partnership with ANL and the University of Pittsburg.

  The funding was announced by DoE under the umbrella of President Barack Obama's "all-of-the-above" approach to energy, highlighted in successive State of the Union addresses, and US climate action plans. Energy secretary Ernest Moniz noted that such public-private research in advanced nuclear technologies would help move the USA closer to a low carbon future. "These types of investments are crucial to the continuing role of nuclear power as a significant contributor to the US energy economy," he said.

  As well as research supporting advanced reactor technology, DoE is also providing funds to support the development of small modular reactors (SMRs). Earlier this year, the DoE signed a contract agreement with NuScale to provide $217 million in funding over five years to develop its SMR design, with industrial partners expected at least to match the federal investment.

  原标题：DoE funding for advanced reactor research