Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 16:27:01 +0000
Building a nuclear power plant is a difficult job. It takes years of planning and sometimes more than a decade to complete. The risk of schedule delays is great, especially […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 19:45:26 +0000
“Everywhere we look, we’re seeing demand surging,” Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), said. “When we talk about demand for nuclear, we’re talking about the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 13:08:16 +0000
Nuclear has re-invented itself as a compelling pathway to achieving net-zero. It is said that everything is cyclical—where there are periods of expansions and contractions. Could this be true of […]
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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: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:15:00 +0000
The term “nuclear renaissance” was very popular in the early 2000s. Nuclear power plant operators had substantially improved existing plant performance, and many new plants were being considered around the
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:42:49 +0000
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), and Synthos Green Energy (SGE) will collaborate to shape a standard design for GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) to speed up the technology’s regulatory acceptance and spur future deployments. The three companies, which have separately begun a regulatory process for potential BWRX-300 […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:26:49 +0000
Last Energy, a U.S.-based micro modular nuclear technology firm and project developer, has secured power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 34 PWR-20 small modular reactor (SMR) units with four industrial partners in the UK and Poland. The deals, which represent a combined $18.9 in power sales, mark “the largest pipeline of new nuclear power plants under […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:01:53 +0000
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) BWRX-300 design has cleared the first two phases of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) Vendor Design Review (VDR) process, marking a first for a small modular reactor (SMR). The Canadian nuclear regulator’s VDR process is an optional pre-licensing mechanism that allows CNSC staff to give applicants feedback early in the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:58:39 +0000
The Enel Group and clean nuclear technology company newcleo signed an agreement under which they will work together on Generation IV nuclear technology projects. Under the deal, Enel will collaborate with newcleo by providing “specialized expertise” through the sharing of “a number of the company’s qualified personnel.” newcleo, for its part, will secure an option […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:11:16 +0000
Despite a steep hike in the project cost estimate for the proposed 462-MWe Carbon-Free Power Project (CFPP), 26 of 27 public power entities have voted to continue development of the first-of-its-kind six-module NuScale Power VOYGR-6 small modular nuclear (SMR) plant. The 26 project participants—subscribers who could eventually offtake portions of the project’s power—lodged financial commitments […]
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