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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Tsuruga 2 Fails Safety Standards

Akira Ishiwatari (right), a commissioner for the Nuclear Regulation Authority, inspects a trench at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor in Fuk…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Sellafield Breaches Hazardous Material Rules

The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served two improvement notices on Sellafield Limited for breaches of The Control of Substances Hazardous to Healt…

Nuclear Equipment

Pilot Fuel Elements Produced for MBIR Fast Neutron Research Reactor

A pilot batch of fuel elements has successfully passed acceptance tests for compliance with the technological and design documentation for Russia's MBIR mul…

SMR

US, Ghanaian Firms Sign Commercial Agreement for SMR Deployment

The agreement between Nuclear Power Ghana (NPG) and Regnum Technology Group to deploy a single NuScale VOYGR-12 small modular reactor (SMR) plant was signed dur…

Nuclear waste

Trial Run at Finnish Repository Starts

Finnish waste management company Posiva announced it has begun a trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository. No actual …

Offshore Wind Power

Enercon and Bals/Selzenergie Sign Contract for 330 MW of Wind Power

The large order includes 50 E-175 EP5 and 7 E-138 EP3 wind turbines for wind farms in southern Germany as well as two high-voltage substations. All projects hav…

Electricity Trade

Volue Announces Contract Wins With Switzerland’s Repower

Volue, a leader in technologies and services that enable its customers to succeed in the energy transition, has today announced multiple contract wins with Repo…

Russian Federation

Pilot Fuel Elements for Mbir Research Reactor Pass Acceptance Tests

The MBIR will be used for the development of materials for Generation IV fast neutron reactors. Courtesy Rosatom.Pilot fuel elements for the Generation IV MBIR …

Nuclear Fuel

Framatome Approved to Transport Higher-Enriched Fuel

Framatome announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a licence amendment allowing transport of fresh nuclear fuel assemblies in the …

Nuclear Reactor

Deep Fission Unveils Underground Reactor Concept

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, announced its emergence from stealth mode and…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

GEN Energija Favours Large Units Over Smrs for Slovenia’s JEK2

Reports on flood safety, nuclear fuel supplies, radioactive waste disposal and also an overview of small modular reactors as an option have been published by GE…

Offshore Wind Power

Vattenfall and German Steel Manufacturer Sign PPA for Nordlicht 1 Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall has signed a long-term electricity supply contract with the steel producer Salzgitter for 75 MW of electricity to come from the Nordlicht 1 offshore …

Wind Turbine

Goldwind Lands in Brazil’s Wind Energy and Opens the First Wind Turbine Factory Outside China

Goldwind opens its first factory outside China, in Bahia, promising 500 jobs and boosting the Brazilian wind sector.As the demand for clean energy grows exponen…

Geothermal Power Plant

Tender – EPC for Dieng 2 Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia

Dieng geothermal field, Indonesia (source: wawa-sisi.blogspot)PT Geo Dipa Energi has announced a tender for an EPC contract for the Dieng Unit 2 geothermal powe…

Nuclear Reactor

Dominion Energy Secures US NRC Approval to Extend North Anna Operations

The North Anna Power Station is located in Louisa County, Virginia. (Credit: Stuartmj/Wikimedia Commons. (Creative Commons))The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission…