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Facing Urgency, DOE Moves to Demonstrate HALEU Fuel Production Capability for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

January 10, 2019 admin 0 Comments advanced reactors, Business, centrifuge, centrus, DOE, economics, existing nuclear fleet, Fuel, high-enriched fuel, light water reactors, microreactors, nei, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, Research and Development, small modular reactors, Technology, uranium, usec

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:30:33 +0000

To propel interest and bolster development of advanced nuclear reactor designs, the Department of Energy (DOE) will demonstrate—by October 2020—the production of high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel in a first-of-its-kind $115 million project at the agency’s uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. HALEU is nuclear fuel that is enriched to a higher degree […]

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DOE Designates Part of UAMPS SMR Plant for Research, Self-Power

January 3, 2019 admin Business, DOE, idaho national lab, jump program, news, NRC, Nuclear, NuScale, Research and Development, smr research, smrs, Technology, uamps

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:24:34 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants to use two of 12 modules at the NuScale small modular reactor (SMR) plant that Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems intends to build at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). One module will be used strictly for research, development, and demonstration activities under the newly launched Joint Use Modular […]

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Control Room Considerations: What You Need to Know

January 1, 2019 admin aten technology, av, Coal, connected plant, control room, Energy Storage, Gas, iiot, iiot power, Instrumentation & Controls, it, kvm, news, Nuclear, O&M, reliability, Renewables, Research and Development, Security, software, Technology

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

Control rooms are vital for organizations to efficiently and effectively monitor multiple information streams and make accurate mission-critical decisions. With an ever-increasing number of content sources and

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Eight Power Sector Takeaways from the Climate Report

November 30, 2018 admin climate change, Coal, Energy Storage, Environmental, Gas, general, Hydro, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, supply chains, Water, Wind

Despite increased resilience actions, extreme weather events due to climate change are projected to increasingly threaten the nation’s energy infrastructure, and create fuel availability and demand imbalances, the Trump administration’s sprawling climate report released on November 23 suggests. The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) released by the Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is clear in […]

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Developing Nations Driving Clean Energy Investment

November 27, 2018 admin bloombergnef, Business, China, climatescope, Coal, Gas, India, International, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, United States, Wind

A new study from BloombergNEF (BNEF) says developing countries lead the way on new investments in clean energy, with those nations taking advantage of lower project costs for solar and wind power as they move away from fossil fuel-powered generation. Today’s report, from a survey by BNEF’s annual Climatescope project, says “emerging market nations … […]

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Technology Selected for DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Program

November 19, 2018 admin advanced reactor, bechtel, Business, DOE, ge hitachi nuclear energy, geh, idaho national laboratory, news, Nuclear, Plant Design, Research and Development, Technology, versatile test reactor, vtr

Battelle Energy Alliance—the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)—selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) PRISM technology to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program. The VTR program is expected to accelerate the development of fuels and materials for U.S. advanced reactors, utilizing fast neutron spectrum technology. Rather […]

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Researchers Demonstrate 120-kV Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles

November 15, 2018 admin batteries, Business, DOE, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, news, ornl, Research and Development, Technology, wireless charging

A wireless charging breakthrough demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) marks a leap toward allowing electric vehicles (EVs) to conveniently recharge within the same period that it typically takes to fill-up at a gas station. Researchers at the national laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in October said they […]

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DOE Office Will Fund R&D for ‘Coal Plant of the Future’

November 14, 2018 admin advanced fossil technology systems, Business, Coal, DOE, Instrumentation & Controls, news, office of fossil energy, Plant Design, Research and Development, small modular coal units, Technology

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week said it will fund research and development (R&D) efforts “that will advance first-of-a-kind coal generation technologies.” The FE on November 13 said its Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) program “will develop the coal plant of the future needed […]

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Particulate Matter Should Be Focus of Air Emissions Regulations

November 9, 2018 admin Coal, emissions, Environmental, Legal & Regulatory, news, pm2.5, Research and Development, SO2

Residents of Texas living downwind of coal-fired power plants would be far better off today if regulators had focused on cutting particle-forming SO2 emissions rather than concentrating so keenly on ozone-causing emissions, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The head of the study, environmental engineer Daniel Cohan, […]

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Big Gains for Tiny Nuclear Reactors

November 3, 2018 admin AP1000, Business, cgn, China, Defense, dod, evinci, general atomics, haleu, India, International, Markets, micro-reactors, nei, news, Nuclear, NuScale, oklo, Pakistan, Plant Design, Research and Development, siberia, Taishan, Technology, triso, urenco, Westinghouse, x-energy

As the hubbub of interest and activity surrounds development of small modular reactors (SMRs) hovering between 60 MW and 300 MW, and medium-sized nuclear reactors of under 700 MW, several nuclear technology

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