Thorizon of the Netherlands has raised EUR12.5 million (USD12.4 million) for the development of a thorium molten salt reactor (MSR). Thorizon is a spin-off from the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), the organisation that operates the High Flux Reactor in Petten. Thorizon’s molten salt reactor design (Image: Thorizon) Thorizon said the investors “are a […]
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Argon Fluoride: ‘Gone too far’: Meet the Dutch chips giant that Silicon Valley loves and Biden fears
ASML may be the most important tech company you’ve never heard of, yet it has the U.S. government running scared for over a year now. By the start of 2019, the Dutch tech firm pioneered a revolutionary method to manufacture chips known as EUV. Ever since, it’s had a complete monopoly on the very machines […]
Asml Holding N.V.: Krypton fluoride & Argon fluoride
Excerpt from article titled What’s Asml Holding N.V. – Ads Represents 1 Ordinary Shar (NASDAQ:ASML) Upside After This Short Interest Increase? “ASML Holding N.V. develops, produces, markets, sells, and services advanced semiconductor equipment systems with a focus on lithography related systems primarily in the Netherlands, the United States, and Asia. The company has market cap […]
Company behind Fipronil-eggs crisis goes bankrupt
Molecular formula for Fipronil: Agro Remijsen, the company belonging to businessman Patrick Remijsen, owner of Poultry-Vision, has gone bankrupt, the Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Nieuwsblad reported on Wednesday. This is a direct consequence of the Fipronil crisis, in which eggs destined for human consumption were contaminated by a disinfectant. Remijsen reportedly delivered the disinfectant, […]
Netherlands going forward with thorium reactor research
The first phase of a Salt Irradiation Experiment (SALIENT) has begun at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group in Petten, a nuclear research facility along the North Sea coast in the Netherlands. The experiment is being carried out with the cooperation of the European Commission Laboratory Joint Research Center-ITU (JRC) in Karlsruhe, Germany with the […]
Acid leak at Shell refinery Rotterdam; second incident in two days
Emergency services responded en masse to the Shell Pernis refinery in Rotterdam on Monday night after a leak of hydrofluoric acid was discovered. Less than 48 hours earlier, emergency services also responded to the refinery when a short circuit in a high voltage cable caused a fire, NU.nl reports. A very low concentration of the […]
Europe’s largest oil refinery will be shut down for at least two weeks
Europe’s largest oil refinery will not start running for at least two weeks following a fire, Royal Dutch Shell said today. The oil major shut down most production at Pernis, the 404,000 barrel per day (bpd) oil refinery in the Netherlands, after a fire at a high-voltage electricity switch station on Saturday caused a power […]
Toxic substance in eggs triggers public health warning
Note from FAN: See more on Fipronil here; its molecular structure is: Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA issued a warning to consumers not to eat eggs with the company code X-NL-40155XX. The content of toxic fipronil in these eggs is so high that they pose an acute danger to public health, the […]
Fipronil: Dozens more egg producers shut down as pesticide scandal spreads
Note from FAN: See more on Fipronil here; its molecular structure is: The Dutch food and product safety board has stopped ‘dozens’ more poultry farms from sending their eggs to market because they may be contaminated with the pesticide fipronil. Tests for traces of the pesticide, used to control lice in poultry, are now being […]
Fipronil: Seven Dutch poultry companies closed over toxic substance
Note from FAN: See more on Fipronil here; its molecular structure is: The Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA halted production at seven companies in the poultry sector after they were found to use poisonous insecticide fipronil in the chicken barns. The authority also recalled eggs from four of the companies, the NVWA […]