PacifiCorp, TerraPower Evaluating Deployment of Up to Five Additional Natrium Advanced Reactors

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:15:45 +0000

Regulated utility PacifiCorp has launched a joint study with nuclear technology firm TerraPower to evaluate the feasibility of deploying up to five additional Natrium pool-type sodium fast reactors (SFRs) and integrated energy storage systems at retired coal plant sites in the utility’s service territory by 2035. The joint study “will evaluate, among other things, the […]

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New Life for Dead and Dying Coal Plants?

Credit to Author: Kennedy Maize| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:09:00 +0000

As coal plants are retired, power companies must decide what to do with sites. Some old plants have been added to the National Register of Historic Places and repurposed as commercial or office space, while

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Hitachi Exiting MHPS; MHI Will be Venture’s Sole Owner

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:43:32 +0000

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Japanese technology conglomerate Hitachi will withdraw from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), a joint venture it established in 2014 with another power equipment giant, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), over a dispute stemming from construction of two massive defect-ridden coal plants in South Africa. Under a Dec. 18-announced settlement reached by MHI and Hitachi, Hitachi will […]

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