So are Purdue University, a North Carolina steel company, a Texas chemical plant, an Indonesian ammonia factory and lots of others. Here’s an overview of the growing interest in this technology. This September, Purdue visits Virginia Tech for the Big Ten football squad’s first trip ever to Blacksburg, which gives us occasion to remark upon …
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) technology is compliant with Polish nuclear safety and radiological protection standards, the president of the National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki, PAA) said in a general opinion. Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) – a joint venture between chemical producers Synthos Green Energy (SGE) and PKN …
LB 565 gains final approval Nebraska legislators were on final reading of several bills Tuesday, including a measure that adopts the Nuclear and Hydrogen Development Act. Senator Bruce Bostelman says the bill allocates $500,000 over the next two-year budget to the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, to provide grants through public power districts and the …
All the uranium produced in the USA during the first quarter of this year was from in-situ leach (ISL) operations, according to the latest US government update. But production from conventional mills as well as ISL looks set to ramp up over the coming months. Total US production of uranium concentrates, at 2511 pounds U3O8 …
Funding of up to USD275 million to advance the deployment of a NuScale Power Corporation VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) plant in Romania was announced at the G7 leaders’ summit by the USA and “multinational public-private partners” from Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. The money announced includes a Letter of Interest from …
Sample designs are shown in these renderings. Courtesy of LENOWISCO Planning District Commission. The study identified seven potential sites for SMRs in the area of Lee, Wise, Scott and Dickenson counties and the city of Norton. A feasibility study that identifies seven potential sites has determined that far Southwest Virginia has the capabilities to be …
Oklo and the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative, or SODI, a redevelopment agency, have signed an agreement to develop two nuclear plants on a re-industrialized site once used for the production of enriched uranium for the U.S. nuclear defense system and commercial nuclear power, the company announced Thursday. The plants will provide up to 30 MW of clean electric power and …
A collaboration between Danish and Indonesian companies will study the operational and regulatory conditions for constructing an ammonia production facility in Indonesia powered by Copenhagen Atomics’ small and modular thorium molten salt reactors. Four Danish companies – Copenhagen Atomics, Aalborg CSP, Alfa Laval and Topsoe – have signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian ammonia …
The 44-metre diameter lower tier of the inner containment dome, weighing 391 tonnes, has been lifted into position on the seventh unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China. A crane with a 2000-tonne capacity was moved to the construction site to complete the lift. The next stage is to complete the installation work …
Once upon a time, enrichment was a government monopoly—at least outside the Soviet bloc. But the United States, eager to get out of the field, was convinced that the private sector could do it better. Now, the West is dependent on the Soviets’ successors and is facing an uncertain supply, a complication of the Russian …
