Plant Vogtle in Georgia installs more Westinghouse reactors while Oregon-based NuScale awaits final approval of its small modular reactor design There are 53 nuclear reactors currently under construction around the world. Only two are in the United States, once the world’s leader in nuclear energy development. And those two reactors represent expansions of a preexisting …
Work on Units 2-4 was briefly halted after pandemic but have now resumed said FANR. Abu Dhabi: Construction at the Barakah Nuclear Plant continues to remain on track according to the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), with the COVID-19 pandemic causing no major disruptions to the site. “The construction of Units 2-4 were halted …
RWT Growth and StarCore Nuclear Canada have announced a partnership to bring low cost, clean nuclear energy to remote locations and industries that rely on less environmentally friendly sources power, such as diesel generators. StarCore said the deal represents a benchmark investment both in terms of scale and innovation. StarCore Nuclear Canada utilises technology similar …
The Department of Energy (DoE) has started a new Office of Nuclear Energy project called the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). The $230 million program will give $160 million to scientists working on two reactor designs that “can be operational” in the very near future. The “Advanced” part of ARDP is an industry term for …
Although a series of mega projects have been postponed in Egypt due to the coronavirus outbreak, work on the country’s first nuclear power plant continues. Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has delayed mega projects scheduled for this year in Egypt, such as the New Administrative Capital and the Grand Egyptian Museum, work on Egypt’s first nuclear project continues around the clock. “The work is …
Making a commitment to build six new EPRs in France would be an “effective stimulus” for the country’s economy as it recovers in the years ahead from the shock of COVID-19, the French nuclear energy society (SFEN) wrote in a position paper published this week. Nuclear energy “ticks all three boxes” highlighted in the debate …
See how COVID-19 has crippled uranium production and seriously eroded the 2020 Uranium Cost Curve, moving us closer to the market’s long awaited tipping point. Click here to view it. Source: Purepoint Uranium Group Inc.
Uranium has outperformed major commodities this year, even as the energy sector has suffered from a drop in petroleum demand tied to the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis was a “black swan event” that pushed supply-demand fundamentals into a “structural shortfall,” says Scott Melbye, executive vice president at Uranium Energy Corp. “Substantial global uranium mine disruptions” …
Some of what you’ve heard about nuclear waste is true. It really can take thousands of years to decay, and even the briefest exposure to the most dangerous kind can be lethal. But in my ten years working with and researching nuclear waste, I’ve also encountered a lot of nonsense. It’s simply not as bad as …
A nuclear reactor core is one of the most extreme human-made environments on the planet. These scientists just figured out how to print one. KURT TERRANI WANTS to accelerate the future of nuclear energy—so he’s turned to its past. Over the last year and a half, Terrani and a team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists …
