Construction of energy station of Tianwan nuclear power plant, in East China’s Jiangsu Province, designed to provide an industrial steam supply, launched on Friday, the first-of-its-kind project in China. It marks an important step in the diversification of China’s nuclear power use, in addition to electricity generation and residential heating. The steam generated by the …
Japanese prime minister’s remarks come as Ukraine war highlights country’s reliance on Russian oil and gas. Japan will move to restart idled nuclear power plants to make maximum use of nuclear power in order to stabilise energy prices and supply, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said. Tokyo will take “concrete steps” to restart plants that …
Senior representatives from Rolls-Royce SMR, the UK’s domestic nuclear energy champion, have toured the land to the South of Sellafield Site with Trudy Harrison, Member of Parliament for Copeland. The visit was part of work to identify opportunities for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) power plants – each capable of producing 470MW of electricity. Alastair Evans, …
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday signed legislation that could help bring nuclear microreactors to Alaska in the coming years, in an effort to help villages lower high electricity prices. Senate Bill 177, introduced by the governor early this year and passed by the Alaska Legislature, streamlines regulatory procedures so that Alaska communities can pursue using the …
The president and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative says integrating nuclear power is necessary to reach carbon emission reduction goals. “The bottom line is, if we are for a less-carbon future, if you are against carbon, you need to be for nuclear. I don’t know a simpler way to put it,” Brent Ridge said yesterday …
Once developed, SRC will use the reactor to research its capabilities as an energy producer for remote communities and industrial sites. The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) has taken the first step in seeing the development of a micro nuclear reactor in the province. Earlier this month, the SRC signed a memorandum of understanding with Westinghouse …
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi was joined by Ukrainian Member of Parliament Alona Shkrum, Royal United Services Institute Director-General Karin von Hippel, and Munich Security Conference Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger on the ‘States of Concern’ panel event, moderated by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Distinguished Fellow Moises Naim. Nuclear provides the opportunity for a faster transition …
Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE: UUUU) (TSX: EFR) (“Energy Fuels” or the “Company”), the leading uranium producer in the United States, announces the results of the election of directors at its annual meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting“) held virtually on May 25, 2022. The ten (10) nominees proposed by management for election as directors were elected by the shareholders of …
Hyundai Engineering & Construction has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the nuclear power industry leader Westinghouse Electric Company to jointly build next generation nuclear power plants. This is the first time that a Korean firm has formed a partnership with the US nuclear power company. Under the agreement, Hyundai Engineering & Construction will be …
Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. Charles Komanoff was for decades an expert witness for groups working against nuclear plants, delivering blistering critiques so effective that he earned a spot at the podium when tens of thousands of protesters descended on Washington in 1979 over the Three Mile Island meltdown. Komanoff …
