DeepGEO, Copenhagen Atomics Sign Pact to Align Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing with Spent Fuel Management

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:08:52 +0000

DeepGEO, a multinational spent nuclear fuel (SNF) repository developer, and Copenhagen Atomics, a Danish advanced thorium reactor innovator, have signed a first-of-its-kind collaboration agreement that seeks to revolutionize the nuclear […]

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Can Nuclear’s Big Recent Wins Propel a True Global Revival?

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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Nuclear Fuel: The Unseen Barrier Ahead

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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Vistra in Talks to Expand Power for Data Centers Through Nuclear, Gas Options

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:29:35 +0000

Vistra is pursuing deals with data center developers in Texas and the PJM region to address the industry’s energy needs at multiple sites, executives revealed during the company’s third-quarter earnings […]

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Vistra’s Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant is a two-unit, 2,400-MW nuclear facility with pressurized water reactors (PWRs) located near Glen Rose in Somervell County, Texas. Built by Luminant with reactors supplied by Westinghouse and operational since 1990, Vistra received Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval in July 2024 to extend the plant’s operation through 2053, adding 20 years beyond its original licenses.

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Major Microreactor Developer Enters Bankruptcy Amid Nuclear Industry Surge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:07:41 +0000

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC), a developer of much-watched microreactor technology and advanced nuclear fuel, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The move signals a critical restructuring phase through which […]

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The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:41:16 +0000

In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]

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Amazon Backs Massive Nuclear SMR Deployment: 5 GW with X-Energy, Agreements With Energy Northwest, Dominion

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:01:58 +0000

In yet another major set of deals spearheaded by a tech giant in support of nuclear power development, Amazon will back the deployment of 5 GW of new X-energy small […]

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Criticisms Of LNG Export Emissions Study Don’t Withstand Scrutiny

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:58:33 +0000

For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]

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Refurbished Three Mile Island Payment Structure Is Not Quite What It Seems

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:35:12 +0000

Two weeks ago, the news was filled with reports that Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, which was shut down in 2019, will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more. Its sole customer will be Microsoft, which needs a lot … [continued]

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US Data Center Owners Turning to Old Nuclear Power

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:34:57 +0000

Last month, Constellation Energy announced a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide electricity to Microsoft data centers in the mid-Atlantic region from the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Unit 1 had returned to operation in 1985 after the 1979 partial meltdown that affected the adjacent … [continued]

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