Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:31:44 +0000
Government officials in the Netherlands have earmarked more than $350 million to fund further development of nuclear energy in the country, including extending the operating license of the 485-MW Borssele
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 16:27:01 +0000
Building a nuclear power plant is a difficult job. It takes years of planning and sometimes more than a decade to complete. The risk of schedule delays is great, especially […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: RJ Roux| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 16:26:20 +0000
With governments and industry engaging more frequently and decisively on how nuclear energy can help meet their climate, electrification, and economic goals, attention is now turning to how we get […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 19:45:26 +0000
“Everywhere we look, we’re seeing demand surging,” Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said. “When we talk about demand for nuclear, we’re talking about the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 13:08:16 +0000
Nuclear has re-invented itself as a compelling pathway to achieving net-zero. It is said that everything is cyclical—where there are periods of expansions and contractions. Could this be true of […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:17:50 +0000
It might surprise many people to learn that nearly every operating reactor in the world has technological roots in Idaho. The fact is, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which was known as the National
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:40:45 +0000
A long-delayed nuclear power plant in Finland has begun producing electricity, ready to provide energy to a region in need of the facility’s output in the wake of Russia’s invasion […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:17:00 +0000
India’s government is pushing for construction of more nuclear power plants as the country looks to increase its supply of cleaner energy. Officials have made some ambitious pronouncements, calling for as
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:15:00 +0000
The term “nuclear renaissance” was very popular in the early 2000s. Nuclear power plant operators had substantially improved existing plant performance, and many new plants were being considered around the
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:37:40 +0000
El Salvador is taking steps to add nuclear power to the country’s energy mix, as the nation of about 6.5 million people looks to diversify its electric power generation fleet. In support of that effort, the government of El Salvador and the Thorium Energy Alliance, a Harvard, Illinois–based non-profit advocacy group that endorses thorium-fueled reactors, […]
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