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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…

Nuclear Policy

Canadian and UK Regulators Agree Terms for Cooperation

Terms of Reference have been signed and published between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for a Mem…

Nuclear Reactor

Bulgaria Energy Strategy Includes Four New Nuclear Reactors

Energy minister Rossen Hristov has set out an energy strategy for 2023 to 2053 for Bulgaria, which includes plans for two new reactors at Kozloduy and two at Be…

Canada

Candu Fuel Plant Relicensed to 2043

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)'s authorisation of the 20-year renewal of Cameco Fuel Manufacturing's (CFM) operating licence for the faci…

United Kingdom

Transfer of Waste From Berkeley Vaults Begins

The first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an i…

Wind Turbine

Dellner Expands Czech Manufacturing Hub

Dellner Bubenzer Group recently expanded its Czech facility, which is specifically used to manufacture products for onshore and offshore wind turbine applicatio…

Oil Exploration

All-Systems-Go for Equinor to Deploy Shelf Drilling Rig at North Sea Oil & Gas Field

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use one of Shelf Drilling’s jack-up …

Wind Energy Technology

What’s Stopping Even Bigger Wind Turbines? Blade Speed and Flexing? More Likely Manufacturing and Installation Capacity

Bigger wind turbines make cheaper energy. The sector’s unexpectedly rapid successes in designing and building bigger and bigger turbines has been one of t…

Electrification

GE Bags Two Service Contracts for Six Power Plants in China

H-class gas turbine. Image credit: GEGE and Chinese state-owned power utility Guangdong Energy Group have signed a long-term service agreement for Dongguan Ning…

Solar Technology

Solar Proves Common Thread Among Zayed Sustainability Prize Winners

The opening ceremony of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023 was not short of inspirational rhetoric, but the winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize provided s…

Nuclear Technology

South Korean Investment in X-Energy

X-energy of the USA - developer of the Xe-100 high temperature gas-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) as well as TRISO advanced nuclear fuel - has announced a s…

Coal Trade

RWE Brings Coal Exit Forward to 2030

RWE has released the following update regarding its coal activities:Today [11 January], RWE Power will start to demolish the former settlement of Lützerath…

Oil&Gas Drilling

UK Firm Chosen to Drill Well Offshore Isle of Man

Isle of Man-based Crogga Limited has awarded Aberdeen-based energy services company THREE60 Energy with a contract to drill an appraisal well this year in the C…

South Korea

South Korean President: Country Needs More Nuclear Power

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his country’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050 must include construction of more nuclear power generation, in a…