Indonesia edging towards the nuclear option

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 …

Southern Company signs agreement with U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate world’s first fast-spectrum salt reactor in collaboration with TerraPower and Idaho National Laboratory

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 …

The small nuclear power plants billed as an energy fix

“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 …

East China’s Shandong uses nuclear power plant residual steam to heat homes

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 …

Americans Want Nuclear Energy as Part of the Solution to Combating Climate Change

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 …

TerraPower picks Kemmerer for nuclear plant

TerraPower has chosen the Naughton power plant in Kemmerer as the site of its first Natrium nuclear reactor, the company said Tuesday. The decision comes nearly six months after the nuclear developer and regional utility Rocky Mountain Power announced plans to build the demonstration reactor at one of four retiring Wyoming coal plants. Also in contention were …

Congress Appropriates ~$1.1B Dollars to X-energy’s ARDP Project with Historic Legislation Recognizing Clean Energy Supply as vital to US Infrastructure and Economic Health.

The historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has passed into law. The package provides almost $2.5 Billion dollars through Fiscal year 2025 for the Department of Energy’s contribution to the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, which selected X-energy and Terrapower to demonstrate their advanced nuclear reactors before the end of the decade. Each company will split …