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  • Driving fossil-free industry with next-gen nuclear energy

    Pär Olsson in lab
    Professor Pär Olsson leads KTH's strategic initiative in nuclear technology. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Dec 06, 2024

    KTH researchers are working to help heavy industry transition to fossil-free operations. A new initiative in nuclear technology focuses on next-generation reactors to provide efficient electricity and...

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  • Marta-Lena Antti in SUNRISE at LTU elected to the Royal Swedish Academcy of Engineering

    Published Dec 06, 2024

    Marta-Lena Antti, Professor of Engineering Materials, has been elected to IVA's Division of Mining and Materials. Per Erik Eriksson, Professor of Construction Management and Engineering, has been elec...

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  • Minister underlines KTH's role in green transition

    Two men walking on KTH campus.
    Minister of Education Johan Pehrson on a visit to KTH with Anders Söderholm, President, on the right and Sofia Ritzen, Dean of Faculty, in the middle.
    Published Nov 05, 2024

    "KTH is the pride of Sweden, with impressive activities and a clear focus on the future." This is what Education Minister Johan Pehrson said during a visit to KTH, when he got a taste of KTH's energy...

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  • Jens Hardell in SUNRISE named Supervisor of the Year at LTU

    Published Nov 04, 2024

    Jens Hardell, Professor of Machine Elements at Luleå University of Technology, has been named Supervisor of the Year 2024. The award, presented by the Student Union and the doctoral student section, i...

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  • Second double slam for SUNRISE students at the Sigvard Eklund Prize ceremony

    Prize winners
    Prize winners
    Published Oct 15, 2024

    Big congratulations to Dr. Ebrahim Mansouri, Ida Andersson Neretnieks, and Jonas Planck for winning the Sigvard Eklund Prize for the best PhD thesis (Ebrahim) and best BSc thesis (Ida and Jonas) in Nu...

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  • SUNRISE: Poster winning award at ICONE-31

    Published Sep 16, 2024

    PhD Student Kin Wing Wong Wins Best Poster Award at the 31st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering.

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  • SUNRISE partner Blykalla achieves milestone in private investment with additional 160 MSEK and welco

    Published Sep 10, 2024

    Blykalla announces the expansion of its Series A round, now amounting to a total of 160 mSEK. The extension is led by Danish entrepreneur Joachim Ante’s investment firm 92 Ventures and Swiss Daniel S....

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  • TV4 Interview with the KTH Nuclear Fuel Lab

    Published Sep 09, 2024
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  • Science Festival in Gothenburg

    Published Apr 29, 2024

    PhD students from the SUNRISE Project participated in the science festival in Gothenburg (Vetenskapsfestivalen)

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  • Attending the TMS2024 conference in Orlando

    Published Mar 29, 2024

    Members of SUNRISE attended the TMS2024 conference in Orlando, Florida.

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  • Visiting Robert Harrison at The University of Manchester

    Published Dec 18, 2023

    Elina Charatsidou and Pär Olsson visited Robert Harrison at The University of Manchester and the team working with uranium nitride (UN) fuel development to establish collaboration with them and SUNRIS...

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  • The first General Assembly of SUNRISE

    Published Dec 15, 2023

    Just completed the last SUNRISE workshop of 2023 with the presentation of the first general assembly of SUNRISE. All the PhD students of each work package got the opportunity to present their latest u...

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  • French-Swedish business summit in Paris

    Published Dec 11, 2023

    Professor Pär Olsson was invited to talk during the panel session at the French-Swedish business summit in Paris, discussing the topic of increasing competence in the nuclear field.

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  • SUNRISE: Award-Winning Poster at the KTH Energy Dialogue 2023

    Published Dec 01, 2023

    On November 30th, the SUNRISE Centre participated in the KTH Energy Dialogue 2023 conference at KTH, where researchers and professionals from a wide range of scientific fields gathered to exchange ins...

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  • SUNRISE Representation at the NuFuel 2023 Conference in Marseille, France

    Published Oct 25, 2023
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  • SUNRISE PhD Students Illuminate Nuclear Power Exhibition at Tekniska Museet

    Published Oct 16, 2023

    SUNRISE PhD students Elina Charatsidou, Fredrik Dehlin, Christopher Petersson, along with Dr. Faris B. Sweidan, were in the spotlight at the nuclear power exhibition during Event på Tekniska Museet.

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  • Uranium nitride synthesis from UF6

    Published Oct 09, 2023

    In October 2023, KTH succeeded in producing UN directly from UF6 using a gas-gas reaction with ammonia in the nuclear fuel lab. 

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  • Double slam for SUNRISE in the 2023 Sigvard Eklund Prize

    Published Oct 05, 2023

    Gabriela Lapinska, who worked on her MSc thesis project in SUNRISE WP2 with supervision by Faris Sweidan, Christopher Petersson and Pär Olsson, won the Sigvard Eklund Prize for best MSc thesis in 2023...

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  • SUNRISE Sparks Innovation and Dialogue at French-Swedish Research Days Conference

    Published Sep 19, 2023

    In a groundbreaking presence at the French-Swedish Research Days Conference hosted at the prestigious KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SUNRISE took center stage in shaping the discourse on the futur...

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  • SUNRISE Centre representation at the 34th Annual Conference of the Mexican Nuclear Society

    Published Aug 22, 2023
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