Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:39:52 +0000
Power plant construction and retrofit projects come in all shapes and sizes, but they all generally have at least one thing in common: complexity. There are usually a lot of […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:47:20 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken a historic step by voting to issue construction permits for Kairos Power’s 70-MWth Hermes 2, a “low power” advanced test facility comprising two […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:38:56 +0000
GE Vernova has unveiled a 100% hydrogen-ready aeroderivative gas turbine solution based on its LM6000VELOX package. The first-of-a-kind technology will be showcased at the 200-MW Whyalla hydrogen power plant in […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:32:38 +0000
One of the biggest challenges the nuclear power industry faces is building plants on time and on budget. Having an experienced project team with the right leaders driving the bus, so to speak, can mean the
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:14:05 +0000
In a strategic move to reduce its heavy dependence on Russian natural gas, Belarus has successfully completed its first nuclear power plant (NPP). The Belarusian NPP, featuring two VVER-1200 reactors, now
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:09:16 +0000
A collaboration between startup Atomic Canyon and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory allowed construction of a sentence-embedding model using 53 million pages of Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:57:59 +0000
At the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last December, 25 countries underlined the role of nuclear energy in their climate strategies by issuing a
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:59:12 +0000
While the past year has marked stunning triumphs for nuclear energy, experts caution that high costs, regulatory bottlenecks, and the need for market alignment remain major hurdles on the path to a true
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:57:18 +0000
As global nuclear ambitions surge, the industry’s fuel supply chain faces critical gaps. Can advanced fuels like HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) and TRISO (TRi-structural ISOtropic particle fuel)
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:57:17 +0000
In 2023, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Idaho State University unveiled the industry’s first near real-time digital twin of a nuclear reactor. The virtual replica of the 5-Wth AGN-201 research reactor
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