John Gorman, president and chief executive of the Canadian Nuclear Association, says the oilsands is the biggest market for small modular reactors. An illustration of one of those reactors is shown here. (NuScale Power) The consortium Pathways Alliance is looking at small modular reactors to power the oil patch The pressing global need to slash emissions …
Workers pouring concrete into the reactor building’s foundation raft (Image: SNERDI) The first safety-related concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant, the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI) has announced. It marks the official start of construction of the first of two CAP1000 …
Nuclear power provided secure and reliable low-emission electricity amid evolving global crises in 2021, notching its second highest annual output of the last decade as the world emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to annual data released by the IAEA Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). The 2021 nuclear power operating statistics provided by IAEA Member …
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he asked for as many as nine nuclear reactors to be online this winter to help with an expected power crunch. “There are concerns about a power shortage this winter,” Kishida told a news conference Thursday. “We must prevent this situation.” The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will …
An employee leaves in his car from the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island, with the operational plant run by Exelon Generation on the right, in Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2019. Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good tells the CNBC Evolve Global Summit that energy transition is happening, but there is no technology that exists …
Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang (second from left) speaks during his policy briefing to President Yoon Suk-yeol (center) at the presidential office in Seoul, Tuesday. (Yonhap) South Korea will resume the construction of new nuclear reactors in the country’s southeastern industrial city of Uljin, speeding up the nuclear energy drive it announced …
Hinkley Point C is getting ready for another spectacular engineering feat with the precision placement of 5,000 tonne cooling-water intakes on the seabed. Four times longer and twice as high as a double-decker bus, each intake head will be connected to five miles of tunnels used to circulate cooling-water for the new power station. The …
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and X-energy have signed a framework agreement to pursue opportunities to deploy Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) for industrial applications in Canada. Under the agreement, OPG and X-energy will pursue opportunities to deploy Xe-100 advanced reactors in Ontario at industrial sites and identify further potential end users and sites throughout Canada. …
The cooling towers of a nuclear power plant in 2021, near Grohnde, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany’s decision to restart old coal plants rather than extend the life of its nuclear power facilities reflects a failure of environmental priorities. Peel away the politics and the passion, the doomsaying and the denialism, and climate change largely boils …
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