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Solar Technology

Cheap, Sustainable Hydrogen: New Catalyst Is 10 Times More Efficient Than Previous Sun-Powered Water-Splitting Devices

Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts a…

Solar Technology

A Step Toward Producing Solar Fuels Out of Thin Air

Kevin Sivula in his lab. Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFLA device that can harvest water from the air and provide hydrogen fuel—entirely powered by solar energy—ha…

Energy Storage Project

Solar-Plus-Storage Project With 200MWH Battery System Proposed in Spain

　　A Madrid-headquartered developer has proposed a solar-plus-storage system in Spain with a 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).　　A request fo…

Hydrogen Technology

Plug Power’s Green Hydrogen Goal to Decarbonize Transportation Sector Shows Real Potential

The company plans to reach its green H2 transportation goal by 2030.Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) believes that green H2 produced from renewable power will help the tr…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

What Makes Toyota’s Hydrogen Combustion Engine Special?

The automaker has already rolled out a fuel cell car, but now it’s also working on using H2 in a new way.Toyota has been developing a new vehicle with a hydrog…

Hydropower Plant

Hydropower’s Role in Achieving Net Zero and Energy Security Is Focus of Global Campaign

A new campaign calling for urgent investment in hydropower to combat climate change, accelerate progress towards net zero and strengthen energy security is bein…

Nuclear waste

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed Again

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Image: JNFL)JNFL said it decided to revise the completion date of plant due to the ongoing conformity review for Design and Con…

SMR

Copenhagen Atomics Puts Forward SMR Design for UK Appraisal

UK Atomics - a subsidiary of Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics - has submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) entry application for its small and modular thor…

Nuclear waste

Lithuania / Consortium Chosen To Plan Dismantling And Waste Management At Ignalina

Project could offer important lessons for UK nuclear power station cleanupIgnalina has two Soviet-era RBMK units that were shut down permanently in 2004 and 200…

Nuclear Power Plant

Samsung completes design of CMSR Power Barge

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has completed the conceptual design for the CMSR Power Barge - a floating nuclear power plant based on c…

Nuclear Power Plant

Outer Containment Dome Completed at Russia’s Kursk-Ii Unit 1

Work has been completed on installation of the domed part of the outer containment of the reactor building at unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP. First, the …

SMR

Nuscale Completes Standard Plant Design Project

US-based NuScale Power Corporation said it has completed the Standard Plant Design (SPD) project for its VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) ahead of schedule. Th…

Nuclear Power Plant

OL3 Resumes Operation in Test Mode

Finland’s Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said the EPR reactor at unit 3 of the Olkiluoto NPP (OL3) has started generating power in test mode. The launch of the …

Nuclear Reactor

Gidropress to Develop Fast Microreactor

OKB Gidropress, a major Russian design Bureau, is developing a fast neutron 10MWe Generation 4 microreactor, SVET-M, for small NPPs. Sergei Lyakishev, Head of t…

Carbon Emissions

SSEN Advances 12 Low Carbon Tech Projects Worth £41MN

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has reached an important stage in delivering 12 low carbon tech projects, worth a total £41…