Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:13:00 +0000
A government agency that supports research into Brazil’s energy sector has forecast a significant jump in demand for electricity within the country over the next several years. Empresa de Pesquisa
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:16:04 +0000
NuScale Power has signed a definitive commercial agreement with mining and processing firm KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. to deploy a VOYGR power plant of up to 924 MWe as early as 2029 to support KGHM’s copper and silver production in Poland. Under an “early works agreement” signed in a ceremony on Feb. 14 in the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:50:56 +0000
The post Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a GE-led joint venture with Hitachi Ltd. that supplies boiling water reactor fuel and fuel-related services around the world, said lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois. “We continue to work with our customers […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:41:56 +0000
The post Russia Completes First-Phase Testing of Nuclear Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Russia has completed the first phase of nuclear accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) reactor testing at a government research facility. The achievement paves the way for ATF testing at a Russian commercial nuclear plant, which could begin in 2020. TVEL Fuel Co. of Rosatom, a company that provides nuclear fuel to 72 reactors in 14 countries, including […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:19:59 +0000
The post Westinghouse Will Acquire Rolls-Royce’s Civil Nuclear Business appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Westinghouse Electric Co. will acquire Rolls-Royce’s Civil Nuclear Systems and Services business in North America for an undisclosed amount under a “definitive agreement” announced on Sept. 26. The merger will conjoin two of the most traditionally significant nuclear businesses in the U.S. and the UK and give the two industry giants more clout in the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000
The post Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Exelon’s Byron Unit 2 nuclear power plant has completed installation of EnCore Fuel, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) solution, marking the start of the first test of uranium silicide fuel pellets in a commercial nuclear reactor. The installation, completed during the plant’s scheduled 18-day spring refueling outage this April, but publicly announced on Sept. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The world’s nuclear sector is struggling to stay economically afloat amid a deluge of renewables and natural gas power, and reinvigorating it will require operational flexibility from new or existing
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:24:22 +0000
The fight about who owns equipment at the now-abandoned V.C. Summer 2 and 3 AP1000 reactors in South Carolina intensified on May 14, as key stakeholder Santee Cooper sued lead contractor Westinghouse for certification documentation related to that equipment. The lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:45:46 +0000
The world’s first complete advanced fuel test assemblies containing accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) have been installed at Southern Co.’s Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant’s Unit 2 in Georgia. Nuclear giant Framatome delivered the GAIA lead fuel assemblies containing enhanced ATF (EATF), including both pellets and cladding, to the plant owned by Georgia Power in January. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000
A widespread misconception persists that nuclear plants can only function as inflexible baseload sources of power—and it’s hurting prospects for the nuclear sector’s role in the world’s future power
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