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Trial Run at Finland’s Onkalo Repository Sets Stage for World’s First Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal

December 3, 2024 admin Canada, deep geological repository, encapsulation technology, engineering, Environmental, Finland, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear decarbonization efforts, nuclear power industry, nuclear waste, nuclear waste management, onkalo repository, posiva, power, radioactive waste storage, Research and Development, spent nuclear waste, Sweden, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:06:31 +0000

Finland is making significant strides in a trial run that will demonstrate the entire process for the safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at Onkalo on Olkiluoto Island—the world’s first permanent

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Data Center Hysteria: How the Power Industry Is Accommodating the Boom

December 3, 2024 admin Amazon, Business, constellation, data center, data centers, full coverage, google, kairos, microsoft, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, power, smr, susquehanna, talen energy, three mile island, x-energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:04:15 +0000

Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about data centers and the enormous amount of electrical power they are expected to demand as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms scale up and become more

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Westinghouse, CORE POWER Partner for Floating Nuclear Power Plants

November 27, 2024 admin Business, core power, Distributed Generation, engineering, evinci, microreactor, news, Nuclear, ocean/marine, power, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:04:41 +0000

Westinghouse Electric Co. and CORE POWER said the companies have formalized a deal for the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) using the Westinghouse eVinci microreactor. […]

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Why Businesses and the Government Are Turning to Nuclear Reactors for Our Increasing Energy Demands

November 26, 2024 admin Business, Commentary, data centers, full coverage, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, power, Power Demand

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:45:29 +0000

The energy landscape in the U.S. is undergoing a seismic shift, owing in part to the exponential growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications and data centers, according to McKinsey […]

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

November 26, 2024 admin advanced reactors, Business, deep geological repositories, energy innovation, Fuel, fuel reprocessing, full coverage, Markets, molten salt technology, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear sustainability, Spent nuclear fuel, thorium reactors, Waste 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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Trump’s Focus on Energy Will Have Variety of Impacts

November 25, 2024 admin climate change, Coal, Environmental, evs, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Oil, Policy, power, Renewables, Solar, trends, Trump, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:29:01 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has made the U.S. energy industry a focus of its plans for his first days in office, with analysts and energy experts expecting a rollback […]

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Kenya Moves Forward With Plans for Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant

November 25, 2024 admin africa, geothermal, hydropower, Kenya, koeberg, news, Nuclear, power, Power Demand, Renewables, Research and Development, rosatom, South Africa, South korea, Uganda

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:50:54 +0000

Officials with Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) said the country is on track to start construction on its first nuclear power plant by 2027. The group at a […]

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Powering the Future: How AI’s Energy Demands Could Push Power Grid to Its Limits

November 25, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, constellation, data centers, microsoft, news, Nuclear, power, Power Demand, renewable energy, Technology

Credit to Author: Joe Morgan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:45:16 +0000

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption skyrockets—and especially generative AI (genAI)—the underlying infrastructure powering these technologies faces unprecedented demands. Data centers, the nerve centers of AI operations, rely heavily on electricity, […]

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NRC Approves Construction of First Electricity-Producing Gen IV Reactor in the U.S.

November 21, 2024 admin advanced nuclear technology, Business, clean energy, full coverage, generation iv reactor, hermes 2, kairos power, Legal & Regulatory, molten salt reactor, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear power, regulatory milestones, Technology, triso fuel

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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Solid Leadership and Experience Are Keys to Successful Nuclear Plant Construction Projects

November 21, 2024 admin Business, full coverage, Management, news, Nuclear, nuclear construction, nuclear power, Plant Design, plant vogtle, power, V.C. Summer, workforce

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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