Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:50:50 +0000
Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant. The groundbreaking on June […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:14:43 +0000
The incoming new government of the Netherlands reportedly will support construction of at least four new utility-scale nuclear power reactors, as part of a program to more than triple the […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 13:42:23 +0000
Fortum, a Nordic energy company with headquarters in Espoo, Finland, near Helsinki, and offices in 10 other countries, announced that it will modernize the Loviisa nuclear power plant’s low-pressure turbines. […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 15:38:04 +0000
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Uzbekistan on May 26 to meet with his counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Among topics high on the leaders’ discussion list was energy. In addition to […]
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Credit to Author: Stephanie Irwin| Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 20:48:43 +0000
The College of Engineering at Tennessee Tech University announced on May 21 the launch of its Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering degree program, only the second such program currently […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 19:18:46 +0000
British officials said the UK government will invest about £200 million (more than $251 million) for a project to build Europe’s first production facility for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Officials […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 12:58:46 +0000
High-burnup fuel rods, manufactured by GE Vernova’s Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:42:15 +0000
An executive with the TC Energy, a group that is among the largest operators of natural gas pipelines in North America, said electricity demand from energy-intensive data centers will support […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:41:01 +0000
The road was long and the challenges difficult, but Plant Vogtle is now the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., as Unit 4 was declared commercially operational on April […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:31:08 +0000
Framatome and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to demonstrate the feasibility of producing non-carrier added lutetium-177, a medical isotope used for a […]
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