Argentina nuclear chief: ‘Nuclear energy is part of the decarbonisation solution’

The new nuclear plant in Argentina will be a 35-hectare site located in the same complex as Atucha I, pictured, and Atucha II, in Zárate, about 100 km north of Buenos Aires (Image: Nucleoeléctrica) José Luis Antúnez, president of Nucleoeléctrica, talks of the next steps for the industry, and the construction of a new plant …

Kairos Power Joins With Bruce Power, Constellation, Southern Company and TVA to Form Advanced Nuclear Development Consortium

April 20, 2022 – Kairos Power has assembled leading North American utilities and generating companies to launch an advanced nuclear development consortium named Kairos Power Operations, Manufacturing and Development Alliance (Kairos Power-OMADA) to advance the development of the company’s advanced fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. Current member corporations include: Bruce Power, Canada’s only private sector nuclear …

BWXT Advancing Microreactor Design Project

U.S. Department of Energy ARDP Contracting Finalized; On Track to Deliver TRISO Fuel for Testing (LYNCHBURG, Va. – April 11, 2022) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) is proceeding apace to deliver microreactors to commercial power and industrial customers in cooperation with Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The company’s BANR (BWXT Advanced Nuclear …

Bruce Power to explore feasibility of using excess energy for hydrogen production

Today, as part of Ontario’s hydrogen strategy, Bruce Power is announcing plans to explore opportunities to leverage optimized site output for potential hydrogen production in partnership with companies within the Clean Energy Frontier region. “Through our Life-Extension Program we are providing Ontario residents and businesses with a long-term supply of clean, reliable electricity and life-saving …

Tennessee site selected for advanced reactor fuel facility

A site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been selected as the site for the USA’s first commercial high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)-based fuel fabrication facility. Construction of the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, or TF3, is to begin this year, with commissioning and start-up as soon as 2025. Xe-100 developer X-energy announced on 4 April that its …

Ministers confident of funding new nuclear power ‘considerably cheaper’ as part of energy strategy

Changes to nuclear funding model and desire for greater energy security behind big bet on nuclear Ministers are increasingly confident of being able to fund a set of new nuclear power stations at a fraction of previous costs as the Government prepares to make nuclear power the centre point of its energy strategy this week. …