Power

Uranium Project

Cameco Wins $220M Tax Refund, Seeks Hundreds of Millions More

A large refund shows light at the end of the tunnel for a tax dispute. Cameco’s Cigar Lake uranium mine, Saskatchewan. Source: CamecoCameco (TSX: CCO; NYS…

Market Analysis

Hydropower Technology Development Is Encouraged, but Implementation Is Challenged – Why?

Hydropower is a mature technology that is over a century old

Hydropower Plant

Attend Hydrovision to Meet the 2023 Inductees Into the Hydro Hall of Fame

Four legacy hydroelectric power facilities will be inducted into the Hydro Hall of Fame for 2023.The winners will be officially announced during the opening key…

Hydropower Plant

Enel Green Power Uses Satellites to Monitor Safety of Dams, Hydropower Structures

Enel Green Power has initiated a project called GPS Hydro to improve the monitoring, and thus safety, of its hydropower infrastructure.Hydropower is the oldest …

Hydropower Plant

EGP Invests in Satellite Monitoring for Hydropower Plants

Enel Green Power (EGP) has announced it has successfully experimented with satellite positioning technology to monitor the infrastructure of hydropower plants a…

Nuclear Reactor

ARC Clean Technology Signs Agreement on Deployment of SMRs in Alberta

ARC Clean Technology Canada (ARC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) for co-operation in the commercialisation…

Nuclear Power Plant

Restart of Ringhals 4 Faces Further Delay

While the start-up of unit 4 of Sweden’s Ringhals NPP is ongoing, power generation from the unit is not now expected to start until 1 April, according to …

Nuclear Reactor

US, Canadian and Polish Companies to Support BWRX-300 Deployment

US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are teaming up with Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Poland&rsquo…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japanese High Court Supports Operation of Ikata NPP Unit 3

Japan’s Hiroshima High Court high court has rejected a petition by local residents to halt the operation of unit 3 at Shikoku Electric Power Co’s Ik…

Carbon Emissions

Fortum and Outokumpu to Use SMRs to Decarbonise Steel Production

Nordic power company Fortum and stainless-steel producer Outokumpu have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the decarbonisation of Outokumpu&r…

Nuclear Power Plant

Construction of Training Centre Begins at Russia’s Kursk-Ii NPP

Russia’s TITAN-2 (part of Rosatom) has begun construction of the training centre at the Kursk-II NPP in the operators town of Kurchatov. The centre is des…

Poland

Last Energy Secures Power Purchase Deals for 34 Smrs in Poland and the UK

US-based Last Energy has secured power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 34 PWR-20 small modular reactor (SMR) units with four industrial partners in the UK and Po…

Nuclear Power Plant

More Leaks Shut Down Monticello NPP

US power company Xcel Energy has shut down its Monticello NPP after an additional water leak was detected following previous reports about the leak of 400,000 g…

Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA’s Grossi in Ukraine to Reassess Nuclear Safety

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, currently on a visit to Ukraine, said on his Twitter page that he had met with…

Nuclear Technology

Bulgaria ‘Close to Signing Westinghouse and Edf Pre-project Studies'

Bulgaria's energy ministry says agreements for pre-project studies are set to be signed with Westinghouse relating to two AP1000 reactors at Kozloduy nuclea…