01-09-2025

A new video-presentation about ASVAD.

This brief video-presentation (20′) shows why nitrogen is a real threat to our PWR reactors. It also shows the current strategy’s weakness and finally describes the ASVAD solution. It’s oriented to all nuclear safety experts. I’m sure you’ll enjoy this video.

It may change your point of view about your current plant safety.

• Link to the video file: Website ASVAD video presentation
• Link to the Youtube video: Youtube ASVAD videopresentation
• Link to the Powerpoint file: download the ppsx ASVAD presentation

10-06-2025

ASVAD Valve was at FISA & EURADWASTE’25 in Warsaw

Past month, our company showed our product during the FISA & EURADWASTE’25 conference in Warsaw. During the four days of the conference, we were pleased to welcome all the visitors and answer all the questions about our product.

Some VIP persons who visited our stand were:

• Juan Carlos Lentijo, Javier Dies, and Alfredo de los Reyes from the Spanish Nuclear Regulator (CSN)
• Roger Garbil, Michal Tratkowsky, Seif Ben Hadj Hassine and Angelgiorgio Iorizzo from the European Commission – Euratom.
• Hamid Ait Abderrahim from MYRRHA.
• Paolo Ferroni and Guillaume Tremblay from Westinghouse.
• Eric Garcia, Thomas Prusek and Michael Montout from EDF.
• Luis Enrique Herranz from CIEMAT.

Thank you all for your interest in ASVAD.

During the Gala dinner, we proudly received the Nuclear Innovation Prize in the category of safety of reactor systems. This price not only recognizes the safety improvement that ASVAD brings to our PWR reactors, it also recognizes our ten-years trajectory in developing the ASVAD solution.

We’re still searching for additional partners to commercialize our product worldwide. Don’t miss this opportunity.

• Link to the Award news: EURATOM Nuclear Innovation Prize Award
• Link to the FISA 2025 & EURADWASTE’25 web page: FISA – EURADWASTE 2025

This entity was winner of the Nuclear Innovation Prize from the 2023-2025 Euratom Research and Training Programme.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission, DG RTD. Neither the European Union nor the awarding authority can be held responsible for them.

14-01-2025

ASVAD VALVE IS AWARDED WITH A NEW PRIZE

EURATOM funded research in nuclear energy safety benefits from consistent success in pursuing excellence across a broad range of nuclear science and technologies. Together with EU countries, the programme has continuously helped maintain a high‑level of competences, underpinned by sound and advanced research. Nuclear researchers and engineers are constantly challenging state-of-the-art in the field and improving evolving technologies thereby creating conditions for innovations beyond technologies and scientific breakthroughs, towards a more dynamic and competitive European industry for the benefit of every citizen and the whole of society.

In this background, the EUROPEAN COMMISSION in the Euratom Research and Training Programme, summoned the Nuclear Innovation Prize.

The contest aims to identify potential disruptive innovations across product developments and their supply chain, from research to market where researchers and engineers play a critical role. The prize also highlights and rewards the excellence in nuclear innovation that can be found in this field of research as well as the quality of the talented researchers and industries involved.

Past year, we applied the ASVAD valve project to this 2024 Nuclear Innovation Prize.

Today, we’re proud to inform that the jury, after having completed the evaluation of all the contestants, has been awarded this prize to the ASVAD project in the category of safety of reactor systems. This price comes with a substantial economic reward (30.000€). The Nuclear Innovation Prize will be awarded at the next Euratom Conference (FISA 2025 & EURADWASTE’25) in Warsaw (Poland)

This award, means to us, not only an economical push forward, but also an international recognition to the ASVAD solution. This award is not our first international prize. In the WNE Innovation Awards 2021, the jury already identified the ASVAD potential, and makes us one of 3 finalists in a worldwide contest. Unfortunately this year the prize only was this mention as finalist. Now, a different jury has reached the same conclusion.

The ASVAD Valve deserves its own place among the new safety elements to make safer our PWR nuclear reactors.

Are you going to do something about it? We’re waiting for your contact.

• Link to the Contest web page: EURATOM – Nuclear Innovation Prize
• Link to the FISA 2025 & EURADWASTE’25 web page: FISA – EURADWASTE 2025
• Link to our award notification: ASVAD Prize Award Letter.pdf

This entity was winner of the Nuclear Innovation Prize from the 2023-2025 Euratom Research and Training Programme.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission, DG RTD. Neither the European Union nor the awarding authority can be held responsible for them.

ASVAD RECEIVE THE APPROVAL FROM THE SPANISH REGULATOR

NUCLEAR SAFETY COUNCIL (CSN)

1-02-2024

We’re proud to inform that after a long process and thorough examination of the ASVAD Valve physical characteristics and the results of its validation tests, the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) had given its approval to the use of ASVAD valve in the Spanish Nuclear Plants.

This approval is the confirmation of their proven quality and its best performance against the nitrogen injection complication. With this initial approval, the door is now open to get the same approval from all the rest of nuclear regulators.

ASVAD has proven to be the best solution to avoid the nitrogen injection. This milestone allows us to show to the Nuclear Community the availability of the ASVAD solution facilitating its licensing process.

You can download the approval document (Spanish) at the following link:

ASVAD APPROVAL (SPANISH).pdf

As the implementation of ASVAD is specific of each plant, licensers have to fulfill the specific additional requirements that may be requested by their Regulator.