Tear It Down or Start It Back Up? Plant Owners Weigh Options Around Retired Reactors

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:06 +0000

Nuclear power plants are still being dismantled, and the business of decommissioning remains strong, but the need for more baseload power and emissions-free generation has some companies ready to restart idled

The post Tear It Down or Start It Back Up? Plant Owners Weigh Options Around Retired Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Fig1-Palisades-nuclear-power-plant-Entergy

Read more

POWER Notebook: GE Plant in France, Targeted for Job Cuts, Will Not Close

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 19:56:07 +0000

The head of GE’s operations in France told a Paris newspaper that a French factory targeted for more than 1,000 job cuts will not close. GE last week said it wanted to make its operations in France more efficient and said changes would come at the Belfort plant in eastern France, which handles technology for […]

The post POWER Notebook: GE Plant in France, Targeted for Job Cuts, Will Not Close appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Read more

Duke Energy Brings First 820 MW of New Florida Gas Plant Online

Duke Energy has brought the first power block of its new $1.5 billion combined cycle gas plant in Citrus County, Florida, online. Duke said the facility located north of Crystal River—an area long known as home to the now-closed Crystal River Nuclear Plant—is among the largest combined cycle projects in the country, and it is […]

The post Duke Energy Brings First 820 MW of New Florida Gas Plant Online appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Read more