The US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office has conditionally committed up to USD1.52 billion for a loan guarantee to Holtec Palisades for its project to bring the Palisades plant, which ceased operations in May 2022, back online. If the project proceeds, it will be the first nuclear power plant in the USA to return …
Cheap low-carbon energy? What’s not to love… The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it’s poised to become a rather hot commodity. All datacenters are energy-hungry but with more watt-greedy AI workloads on the horizon, nuclear power has fresh …
Minister will ask Niigata’s governor for approval: report Tepco’s stock surged as potential restart would help cut costs Japan’s government is ramping up an effort to secure local approval to resume operations at the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, according to a report, amid a wider push by the nation to restart its idled fleet …
The island’s resistance to a dependable—and desperately needed—source of energy has been shaped by a covert history. After a contested race, the people of Taiwan have elected current Vice President Lai Ching-te to be their next president. The result keeps the Democratic Progressive Party, which broadly favors Taiwanese sovereignty and closer ties with the United …
Belgium’s Federal Energy Commission is in the final stages of agreeing on the ten-year extension of its two newest nuclear reactors, Doel 4 and Tihange 3 before a vote will be held to conclude the process. But the nuclear debate is proving divisive to the bitter last, with several parties in the opposition …
As Japan marks 13 years since the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in March 2011, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is moving toward restarting idled nuclear power reactors. But a powerful Jan. 1 earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture reminded the country of how seismic activity can lead to …
It’s essential for keeping a clean-energy electrical grid. Nuclear power has been the backbone of Ontario’s clean electric grid for the past half-century. Starting in 1971, the Canadian province constructed 20 large heavy-water reactors over the next 22 years. The rationale at the time wasn’t combating climate change but replacing expensive coal imported from the …
Canada’s most populated province is extending the lifespan of the country’s oldest operating nuclear power plant, doubling down on nuclear plant overhauls to pursue green goals. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) last month abandoned plans to close the remaining six reactors at its Pickering Nuclear Power Station, opting instead to refurbish four of the units (Pickering …
Czech nuclear power plant operator ČEZ says that its fuel diversification strategy will see the first Westinghouse VVER fuel delivered to its Dukovany nuclear power plant at the end of the year. Six test Westinghouse fuel assemblies were delivered for the first unit at the Temelin nuclear power plant in 2019. The results are being …
Nuclear energy operator EDF has shut down two reactors at Chinon in western France after a fire in a non-nuclear sector of the plant in the early hours of Saturday, the company said. The fire has been extinguished, it said. “Production unit number 3 at the Chinon nuclear power plant has shut down automatically, in …