Nuclear is a notable absentee from the list of renewables in Indonesian power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara’s (PLN) latest plan for the next decade, but flip the page to the country’s ambitious 2060 zero-carbon scenario and it figures prominently after 2035. For nuclear exponent Bob Effendi, the door is now irrevocably open. “The political decision …
The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment will provide crucial operational data for fast-spectrum salt reactors and unlock this uniquely flexible advanced reactor technology for use in a net-zero future. Southern Company and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have established a cooperative agreement to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment – the world’s …
“We’ll likely have more accidents than existing reactors because it’s a new technology, but these will be accidents and not disasters,” says Troels Schonfeldt, co-founder of Denmark’s Seaborg Technologies. His nuclear power company is one of several developing a new generation of smaller nuclear power plants. Like others in the industry, Mr Schonfeldt wants to …
A Canadian utility sold green bonds to help fund an overhaul of nuclear reactors, a rare use of proceeds that was seen as a test for sustainable debt investors. Bruce Power LP priced C$500 million ($396.8 million) in bonds on Thursday after holding meetings this week to discuss its green financing framework, according to people …
UEX Corporation (TSX:UEX) (“UEX” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has filed a technical report on the Horseshoe-Raven Project (the “Technical Report”) located in the eastern Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan, prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects” (“NI-43-101”). In 2011 a Preliminary Economic Assessment titled “Preliminary Assessment …
Big Carl, the world’s biggest crane has been in action again at Hinkley Point C. It has placed the first huge steel ring section onto the second reactor building, just 11 months after the same operation on the first reactor. The installation shows how building an identical copy of the first reactor drives efficiency and …
On a conference-room whiteboard in the heart of Silicon Valley, Jacob DeWitte sketches his startup’s first product. In red marker, it looks like a beer can in a Koozie, stuck with a crazy straw. In real life, it will be about the size of a hot tub, and made from an array of exotic materials, …
The second phase of the nuclear energy heating project in Haiyang city, East China’s Shandong Province entered operation on Monday, an important breakthrough in China’s nuclear energy heating strategy, with the city saying goodbye to coal-fired heating, showing that the country has ramped up efforts to promote clean energy residential heating. The nuclear energy heating …
IsoEnergy Ltd. (“IsoEnergy” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ISO; OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce the remaining scintillometer results from its successful summer drilling at the Hurricane zone. Hurricane is a high-grade uranium project located on the Company’s 100% owned Larocque East property (the “Property”) in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan. 2021 drilling at Hurricane …
Annual Study Shows Strong and Growing Support for Nuclear Over Four Consecutive Years -As the climate crisis intensifies, the race to adopt clean, sustainable sources of energy is on. But how have American attitudes to nuclear power changed? Would Americans be enthusiastic about updating nuclear power? To answer these questions, ecoAmerica conducted its fourth consecutive American Climate …
