The US Air Force has confirmed the Eielson base in Alaska as the facility planned to host its first small nuclear power plant. A microreactor of up to 5 MWe could be operational there as soon as 2027, according to Eielson. “Energy is a critical asset to ensure mission continuity at our installations,” said Deputy …
The UK’s nuclear stations, run by EDF, reached a major milestone this week, clocking up 2000 terawatt hours (TWh) of zero carbon electricity – enough to power all the UK’s homes for more than 18 years. Since the oldest stations in the fleet first started generating in 1976 the eight sites across the UK have …
The establishment of the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust has created quite a stir. Sprott’s extensive buying has created an unprecedented excitement and demand, leading to the highest prices we’ve seen in a long time. But what effect has this catalyst had on the strategies of major uranium industry players? Especially considering that the changing market …
PARIS (Reuters) -French grid operator RTE said next generation nuclear reactors offer an affordable path to shifting the country’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and make the aim of carbon neutrality by 2050 achievable. “Building new nuclear reactors is economically viable, especially as it makes it possible to maintain a fleet of around 40 …
Faster, cheaper, safer, better. Companies are constantly searching for more efficient and affordable options to perform routine and hazardous tasks in an industrial environment. Self-navigating drones could be the solution, but configuring them to maneuver indoor spaces without a strong GPS signal can be expensive. Utilizing advanced imaging analysis and QR codes, researchers at Idaho …
Kazatomprom has reduced its expected production figures for 2021 due to delays in exploration and wellfield development activity, citing pandemic-related supply chain issues which have had a material impact on production schedules. The Kazakh uranium producer’s announcement comes days after Canadian company Cameco reduced its forecast for fuel services production for the year citing supply …
ATLANTA — Georgia’s utility-regulating agency voted unanimously Tuesday to let Georgia Power pass on to customers $2.1 billion of the costs of completing the first of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. That figure, which will boost average residential customer bills by $3.78 a month, was set in an agreement the Atlanta-based utility and …
A new paper by Technical Director of the Generation IV International Forum, Gilles Rodriguez, published in the open-access journal EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, provides a comprehensive review of joint research into sodium-cooled fast reactors undertaken by French and Japanese researchers. Many countries are already using sodium-cooled fast reactors to provide energy; a new review paper …
China has its sights set on being the world leader when it comes to nuclear power technology. The country has brought its first Hualong One—a third-generation pressurized water reactor—online at the Fuqing plant in Fujian province, with its developers calling it a “strategic tool for the government to promote nuclear power technologies abroad.” China is …
As detailed in “A startling report on methane leaks” (Page A1, Oct. 26), a long-term study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found six times more methane leaking into the air around Boston from natural gas pipelines than estimated, and methane has 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. If this is just …
