Chugoku Electric Power Co. notified the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday that it plans to restart the No. 2 reactor at its Shimane nuclear power plant in western Japan on Dec. 7. The Shimane No. 2 unit will be the second boiling water reactor, after the No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa …
Donald Trump enacted pro-nuclear policies during his first term and supported an “all-of-the-above” energy policy during the campaign, but some advocates fear a “divide between words and actions.” President-elect Donald Trump in August vowed to “approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refineries, new power plants [and] new reactors” on “day one” of his administration. But Trump has …
Hainan Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), signed the world’s first capacity-building execution deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the construction of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the sidelines of an international conference on SMRs and their applications. The international conference on SMRs and their …
Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear power plants could be reactivated. In the “Energy Agenda” policy paper, conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) politicians outline their energy policy priorities for the country’s future, ahead of the next federal election, which …
There’s a big obstacle, though: Viktor Orbán. There’s renewed European Union momentum to kick Russia’s nuclear sector out of the bloc and strip Moscow of one of its remaining holds over Europe’s energy supplies — if Viktor Orbán will allow it. In Brussels, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, has pledged to explore whether the EU should …
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued an order rejecting the amended Susquehanna Interconnection Service Agreement between PJM Interconnection, PPL Electric Utilities and Talen Energy Corporation proposing to increase the load capacity of Amazon’s data centre at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. In March, Talen announced the sale of its 960 …
The first of two demonstration Guohe One (CAP1400) reactors at Huaneng Group’s Shidaowan site in China’s Shandong province has been connected to the grid. The 1400 MWe pressurised water reactor design is intended to be deployed in large numbers across the country, as well as for export. The CAP1400 is an enlarged version of the …
Google is interested in colocation to meet its data center needs, not to avoid grid costs, said Brian George, the company’s U.S. federal lead for global energy market development. Making sure the grid has adequate power supplies was one of the top issues that emerged during a technical conference on colocating data center load at …
Niger’s military junta is disputing a decision by French nuclear fuel firm Orano to halt uranium production, according to a document from a state partner in the venture seen Friday by AFP. Orano announced last month it was stopping production as from Thursday owing to what it termed increasingly difficult operating conditions in the country …
The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to operate in three years. Constellation provided a timeline for restarting the plant during a public meeting Friday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Constellation made a deal with Microsoft to provide enough …
