Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:32:26 +0000
The power industry’s rapid adoption of digitalization is a striking example of its dynamic innovation—the continuous development and introduction of new ideas, products, or processes to meet shifting
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:29:40 +0000
A project to deploy a 1.5-MW commercial-scale ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform in the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe by 2025 has gained a key design certification. The crucial
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:29:37 +0000
Efforts by Japanese nuclear fuel manufacturers to develop accident tolerant fuel (ATF) materials are making progress, and their commercialization is currently expected between 2030 and 2035 after key
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 18:21:22 +0000
A full-scale electrically heated prototype of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 100-kWth MARVEL nuclear microreactor has been successfully installed at a facility in New Freedom, Pennsylvania, and is readying for […]
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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: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 17:31:07 +0000
Westinghouse has officially unveiled the AP300, a “downsized” version of the company’s flagship AP1000 Generation III+ pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology. While the small modular reactor (SMR) will enter a nuclear market […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Thomas W. Overton| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:19:54 +0000
Over the last three years, electricity generation from fusion has moved from the realm of science fiction to the brink of serious development. A lot has happened, but challenges remain before fusion arrives on
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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: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:16:45 +0000
A pioneering 21-MW power project that economically produces geothermal power with co-produced hydrocarbon fluids from an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operation is now commercially operating in Alberta, Canada
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:14:03 +0000
The wealth of data available for today’s power generators is supporting more efficient electricity production, and more reliability and resiliency for the grid. There are many reasons utilities and power
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