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Nuclear Fuel

Companies Pool Resources to Manufacture TRISO Fuel

A joint venture between Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) plans to manufacture commercial quantities of TRISO fuel particles and fuel for adva…

Nuclear Reactor

GE Hitachi Signs Contract for the First North American Small Modular Reactor

GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor.GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), SNC-Lavalin and Aecon have signed a contract for the …

Nuclear Reactor

Kazakhstan Continues Discussions With EDF

Kazakhstan is continuing discussions with French company EDF including proposals for an EPR-1200 reactor, the Kazakh Ministry of Energy has confirmed. EDF is on…

Hydrogen Production

Hydrogenone Invests in First Green Hydrogen Project

HydrogenOne, the first London-listed fund investing in clean hydrogen for a positive environmental impact, has announced its first investment commitment in a gr…

Wind Power Project

GE Proposes Building Two New Offshore Wind Facilities in New York

GE has submitted a plan to construct two new manufacturing facilities in New York if it wins a sufficient volume of orders from customers in the State’s o…

Geothermal Power Plant

Eramet Signs Mou for Geothermal Lithium Extraction in Alsace, France

Well at Rittershoffen geothermal site in Alsace, France (source: ThinkGeoEnergy)The French mining company Eramet has signed an exclusive Memorandum of Understan…

Nuclear Reactor

Ukraine Plans to Build Two Us-Made Reactors for the Khmelnitsky Nuclear Plant

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has adopted an order to launch organizational measures and begin work on project documentation for the construction of two …

Energy Technology

Containment Building Completed at Zhangzhou 1

Construction has been completed of the outer dome of the containment building of unit 1 of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province, Chi…

Japan

IAEA Task Force Reviews Fukushima Water Discharge Plan

The International Atomic Energy (IAEA) Task Force established to monitor Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP has comple…

Greece

KGAL and PFALZSOLAR Form JV to Build Solar Parks in Greece

Investment and asset manager, KGAL, and project developer and general contractor, PFALZSOLAR, are entering into a joint venture for the development and construc…

Oil & Gas Trade

Colombia Will Not Issue New Oil and Gas Exploration Contracts

The Colombian Ministry of Mines has announced that Colombia would not issue new oil and gas exploration contracts, and will now rely on tourism and green energy…

Electric Vehicle Battery

EVs to Grow to 45% of the Car Market by 2035, Driving Demand for Cobalt, Graphite, Lithium

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is rising at an unprecedented pace. It is estimated that EVs will take a massive 32% share of the car market by 2030 and grow to …

Offshore Wind Power

Siemens Energy to Build World’s First 2GW Connection at Sea

The contract represents the largest offshore grid connection order in Siemens Energy's historyThe German transmission system operator Amprion has awarded th…

Nuclear Technology

Xe-100 SMR attracts South Korean investment

South Korea’s DL E&C and Doosan Enerbility are to invest $25m in US-based X-energy to advance the deployment of its Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor …

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Installed the Vessel of the Unique Russian Research Reactor – MBIR – in the Design Position

On January 18, 2023, the vessel of the world's largest multipurpose fast neutron research reactor (MBIR) was installed in its designed position at the const…