Fuel

Coal Production

China’s ETS to Reduce Coal’s Share of Power Mix: IEA

Without tighter allocation benchmarks for coal-fired plants or the introduction of allowance auctions, the scheme could fail to encourage any significant coal-t…

Nuclear Power Plant

TEPCO Banned from Restarting Nuclear Plant over Safety Flaws

The Nuclear Regulation Authority formally issued the order not to transport nuclear fuel stored at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture or loading…

Hydrogen Fuel Stations

Hydrogen Push Ignites Next Stage of China’s Energy Transition

The China Hydrogen Alliance predicts that by 2025, the output value of China's hydrogen energy industry will reach 1 trillion yuan and by 2030

Nuclear Power Plant

Iran Says It will Enrich Uranium to 60%, Highest Level Ever

Iran will begin enriching uranium up to 60% purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, a negotiator said Tuesday, pushing its program to higher leve…

O＆M

Beaver Valley Unit 1 Nuclear Power Station Begins Refueling Outage

Energy Harbor Corp. announced today its Unit 1 at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, was taken offline at 12:01 a.m. on Sund…

Nuclear Fuel

Canadian Uranium Mine and Mill to Resume Operation

Cameco has announced plans to restart production later this month at its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, which was suspended in Decemb…

Hybrid Power Plant

Malian Gold Mine Powered by 30 MW/15.4 MWh of Solar-Plus-Storage

The solar-plus-storage facility will reduce heavy fuel oil consumption by 13.1 million liters per year.

Oil Price

Oil Falls, Ending Week About 2% Lower on Supply increase, and New Lockdowns

Oil prices settled lower on Friday and fell around 2% last week as production increases and renewed COVID-19 lockdowns in some countries, offset optimism about …

Nuclear Fuel

Saved by a Whisker: Plans to Mine a Telangana Tiger Reserve for Uranium have been Shelved

The Amrabad Tiger Reserve is rich in biodiversity and is part of extensive Nallamalla forests that are home to Adivasi groups.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

China's Capital Envisages 10,000 Fuel Cell Vehicles by 2025

The city of Beijing aims to have over 10,000 fuel cell vehicles on the road and build 74 hydrogen filling stations by 2025, as the Chinese capital maps out an a…

Nuclear Fuel

Russia Builds Second Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Plant

The commissioning of the W2- EKhZ unit, scheduled for 2023, will double the capacity of the enterprise for processing DUHF from 10,000 to 20,000 tons a year.

Nuclear Reactor

Hybrid Fusion-Fission Reactors Developed in Russia

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University, in cooperation with other Russian scientists, have created and tested a fusion component of a unique hybrid react…

Nuclear waste

Breaking U.S. Nuclear Waste Stalemate could be Key to Biden’s Climate Goals, Stanford Scholars Say

Stanford University experts are cautiously optimistic that the Biden administration can change the U.S. trajectory on nuclear waste, and they offer their though…

Nuclear Fuel

Iran boosts uranium enrichment capacity to 16,500 SWUs: atomic chief

Iran has increased its uranium enrichment capacity to 16,500 separative work units (SWUs), Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEO…

Market Analysis

Green Hydrogen to Cost Less than Natural Gas by 2050

Falling costs of solar PV technology will make cleaner gas cheaper than its fossil fuel-derived variant, according to a new report