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: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:22:55 +0000
A global professional services and project management company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, announced it has been chose to develop the pre-concept design for a nuclear fusion pilot plant (FPP). 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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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:29:02 +0000
In a strategic move to jumpstart domestic uranium enrichment capacity in the U.S., the Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a request for proposals (RFP) to buy low-enriched uranium (LEU) […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:39:38 +0000
Adding new reactors to the U.S.’s fleet of nuclear power plants doesn’t happen every day. In fact, prior to the addition of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4, it hadn’t been done from scratch in decades
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:25:27 +0000
Economics Could Bring Early Closure for Slovenia Coal-Fired Plant. Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob in May said the Termoelektrana Šoštanj (TEŠ) facility, the country’s only remaining coal-fired
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:34 +0000
Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company and operator of more than 8.2 GW of nuclear power capacity, said it has completed the installation of lead test assemblies with additively […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:46:13 +0000
The U.S. Senate has passed the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, sweeping legislation that seeks to promote U.S. nuclear leadership, accelerate advanced nuclear technology […]
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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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