Credit to Author: Greg Walters| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:42:06 +0000
Dubbed ‘Chernobyl on Ice,’ the Akademik Lomonosov will be towed to Russia’s far east to provide power to remote oil, gas, and mining operations.
Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:52:48 +0000
GSE Systems said it has delivered and commissioned three additional full-scope simulators for Southern Nuclear’s new Operations Training Centers. The simulators are for the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, and the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant. Simulators provide efficient hands-on learning for power plant operators. While power plants of […]
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Credit to Author: Samuel Gilbert| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:49:09 +0000
Residents say they’ve been ignored even as the struggle with contaminated water and worry about having children.
Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:57:57 +0000
A team that reviewed Southern Nuclear Company’s (SNC’s) April 2019 Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Re-baseline of Forecast Schedule and Cost said it believes the working schedule predicated on commercial operation dates of May 23, 2021, and May 23, 2022, for the respective units, is unachievable. Furthermore, the reviewers said the regulatory-approved schedule from the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:05:47 +0000
NuScale Power, Rolls-Royce, and China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC)—three companies working on different small modular reactor (SMR) technology—recently announced positive developments for their respective designs. NRC Makes Progress on NuScale Design Review Portland, Oregon-based NuScale said on July 22 that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed the second and third phases of its SMR […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:35:15 +0000
Nuclear power advocates suggest there are many benefits associated with nuclear energy. They point to high-paying jobs; billions of dollars in economic activity for plant-hosting communities; and secure, reliable, baseload electricity. But the most-important benefit of nuclear power may be that it emits no greenhouse gases, and therefore, does not contribute to climate change. According […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:47:10 +0000
According to the Energy Impact Center, a Washington, D.C.-based research institute focused on deep decarbonization, CO2 emissions “must go net-negative by 2040, globally across all energy sectors” to begin countering climate change. The only way it sees to accomplish this is to “produce energy inexpensive enough to make carbon negative fuels that compete with fossil […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The worldwide movement toward a clean energy future is barreling ahead. Most clean energy advocates seem to focus on wind and solar power as their resources of choice, and it shows, as the installed capacity
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Credit to Author: Tom Seymour| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:11:14 +0000
HBO’s Chernobyl is hellish. But with renewables still lagging far behind, nuclear power is still our best hope for low-carbon energy in the near term.
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Credit to Author: Drew Schwartz| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:44:50 +0000
“We had a general standing philosophy from the beginning, which was: Accuracy is everything to us.”
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