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Industry Groups to Congress: Inaction on Nuclear Waste Not an Option

December 6, 2018 admin DOE, Fuel, nei, news, Nuclear, nuclear waste, Spent nuclear fuel, Yucca Mountain

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:28:16 +0000

Fifteen notable industry groups have urged Congressional leaders to act on the federal used nuclear fuel program, noting no progress on the Yucca Mountain repository license application and consolidated interim storage is “untenable.” The broad coalition of labor unions, state public service commissioners, clean energy organizations, and energy trade associations told U.S. House and Senate […]

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THE BIG PICTURE: Wind Turbine Trends

December 5, 2018 admin Business, distributed energy, DOE, Infographics, land-based wind, news, Renewables, Technology, Wind, wind economics., wind technology, wind turbines

Average wind turbine capacity, rotor diameter, and hub height increased in 2017, continuing a long-term trend. One reason that wind producers choose bigger turbines is to optimize wind power project cost and performance, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Source: U.S. DOE, 2017 Wind Technologies Market Report, […]

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Could High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions (HELE) Technology Revive U.S. Coal Power?

November 22, 2018 admin advanced ultrasupercritical, Business, China, Coal, coal first, DOE, Environmental, hele, iea, International, Japan, news, senator young, supercritical, Technology, ultrasupercritical

A newly introduced Senate bill aims to make federal loan guarantees available for new high-efficiency, low-emissions (HELE) coal power plants in the U.S. Although it spearheads considerable research and development initiatives to advance coal technology, the nation’s pipeline of coal builds remains virtually vacant, and it now lags painfully behind Asia and Europe in demonstration […]

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Technology Selected for DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Program

November 19, 2018 admin advanced reactor, bechtel, Business, DOE, ge hitachi nuclear energy, geh, idaho national laboratory, news, Nuclear, Plant Design, Research and Development, Technology, versatile test reactor, vtr

Battelle Energy Alliance—the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)—selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) PRISM technology to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program. The VTR program is expected to accelerate the development of fuels and materials for U.S. advanced reactors, utilizing fast neutron spectrum technology. Rather […]

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DOE Considers Subsidies Modeled on Renewables for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

November 16, 2018 admin Business, DOE, federal financing, news, Nuclear, Renewables, small modular reactors, subsidies, Technology

State-imposed standards and financial incentives such as those used to spur widespread adoption of renewables technologies offer a promising model to address challenges to commercialize small modular reactors (SMRs), says a report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy. But to make a meaningful impact, nearly $10 billion in incentives will […]

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Researchers Demonstrate 120-kV Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles

November 15, 2018 admin batteries, Business, DOE, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, news, ornl, Research and Development, Technology, wireless charging

A wireless charging breakthrough demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) marks a leap toward allowing electric vehicles (EVs) to conveniently recharge within the same period that it typically takes to fill-up at a gas station. Researchers at the national laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in October said they […]

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DOE Office Will Fund R&D for ‘Coal Plant of the Future’

November 14, 2018 admin advanced fossil technology systems, Business, Coal, DOE, Instrumentation & Controls, news, office of fossil energy, Plant Design, Research and Development, small modular coal units, Technology

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week said it will fund research and development (R&D) efforts “that will advance first-of-a-kind coal generation technologies.” The FE on November 13 said its Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) program “will develop the coal plant of the future needed […]

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TVA Extends Deadline for Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Deal

November 11, 2018 admin ALABAMA, bellefonte, Business, DOE, franklin haney, Legal & Regulatory, light & water, memphis gas, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear development llc, TVA

A Tennessee businessman now has until the end of November to finalize a two-year-old purchase agreement for the unfinished Bellefonte nuclear power plant in Alabama. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which began building the plant in 1974 but ended construction in 1988 amid a downturn in the nuclear power industry, on November 9 said it […]

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PJM: Fuel Supply Resilience Is Sound—For Now

November 6, 2018 admin DOE, ferc, Fuel, fuel supply, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, pjm, reliability, resilience

Fuel delivery systems in PJM Interconnection’s vast footprint can generally withstand an extended period of stress and remain reliable, though extreme scenarios could impact the grid, the nation’s largest system operator concluded in a high-profile study. PJM, whose system covers 13 states and 65 million people, launched the study this May as the federal government, […]

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10-MW Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Demonstration Project Breaks Ground

October 17, 2018 admin DOE, Gas, news, research, Research and Development, supercritical carbon dioxide, swri, Technology

First ground has been broken on a 10-MW pilot of a novel supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) technology, a $119 million project that will refine the sCO2 power cycle and demonstrate component performance and scalability. Construction of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) pilot plant at the 15-acre facility at Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI’s) San Antonio, […]

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