Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:25:44 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has wrapped up its final safety evaluation for Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 “low power” advanced test facility, comprising two 35-MWth test molten salt reactors—similar to […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:08:05 +0000
Engineering giant Burns & McDonnell has entered into an agreement with nuclear technology specialist BWXT Technologies to advance the design and development of the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor (BANR). The […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:06:36 +0000
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied motions to stay a suite of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that champion carbon capture and storage (CCS) […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:14:29 +0000
Three major high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology giants—GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, and Hitachi Energy—will join forces with four German transmission system operators—50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW—to develop multiterminal hubs with […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:11:44 +0000
South African state-owned utility Eskom has garnered the National Nuclear Regulator’s (NNR’s) approval to continue operating Unit 1 of the 1,860-MW Koeberg Nuclear Power Station for another 20 years, until […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:03:23 +0000
In 2018, Cooperative Energy, a generation and transmission co-op headquartered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, had an issue to deal with. Several years earlier, it had joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator […]
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Credit to Author: Ken Rabedeau| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:02:50 +0000
Managing risk is nothing new to utilities. Providing the safe utility services like electricity, water, sewer, and wastewater management that everyone relies upon is hard work. Critical infrastructure assets are […]
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Credit to Author: David Rose| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:14:58 +0000
In approving the development of a 2,800-acre wind farm across prime agricultural land in the east of England, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:28:33 +0000
More than $106.5 billion in large-scale clean energy project investments have been announced in Republican-held congressional districts in the U.S. during the period from August 2022 through June 2024. The […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:46:19 +0000
Nuclear power has consistently provided about 19% to 20% of total annual U.S. electricity generation since 1990. It provides significant amounts of electricity in many other countries as well. According […]
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