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Electric Vehicle Battery

Tesla Gigafactory In Nevada Celebrates One Million Battery Packs

They are used in the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y.

South Korea

Doosan Heavy to Lead X-energy’s Study on SMR Nuclear Reactor Design

South Korean power infrastructure firm Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will partner with U.S.-based X-energy on developing and designing tests for advanc…

SMR

Ukraine Signs MOU with NuScale to Develop Small Nuclear Reactors

Small modular reactor designer NuScale Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s nuclear operator to develop SMR plants in that nation.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Chart Industries Unveils Onboard Liquid Hydrogen Fuel System

Chart Industries unveiled a new product line for heavy-duty trucks, an onboard liquid hydrogen fuel system, at the ACT Expo in Long Beach, California.

Nuclear Fuel

US, Norway Work Together to Eliminate HEU

The MoU calls for downblending activities to begin in 2022 using Norway's existing infrastructure, followed by the eventual deployment of the DOE's Mobile Melt-…

Crude Oil

China’s CNPC Looks To Revive Oil Projects In Venezuela

The China National Petroleum Corporation is preparing to return to Venezuela after the Maduro government finalizes legislation seeking to attract more foreign c…

Nuclear Power Plant

Eskom Confirms Unit 1 Reactor Trip at Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant

South African power utility Eskom confirmed that Koeberg Unit 1 Reactor tripped at 16:30 on Monday, 30 August 2021

Oil Exploration

Shell Takes Operatorship in Blocks off South Africa

Impact Oil & Gas entered into the agreement with Shell for the farm-out of the South African exploration right back in November 2020.

Nuclear Equipment

Atommash in 'Rhythm' As It Ships Steam Generators to Turkey

Steam generators for the second reactor of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant have been dispatched from the Atommash plant in the Volgodonsk area of Russia.

Nuclear Power Plant

Partners to Study Deployment of SMRs at Polish Coal Plant

Polish chemicals group Synthos and energy group ZE PAK have signed an investment agreement to explore the construction of four to six BWRX-300 small modular rea…

Ukraine

US-Ukrainian Energy Partnership Foresees Five New Reactors

Ukraine and the USA have agreed to "deepen and intensify" their strategic cooperation in energy. Nuclear power leads a suite of agreements with a project to com…

Nuclear Policy

S Korea Hopes to Restart Talks with North Korea Amid Nuclear Concerns

It said that a nearby radiochemical laboratory, which reprocesses spent nuclear fuel, was active for five months leading up to July.

Nuclear waste

Slovenia Considers Deep Borehole Disposal

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation has been awarded a contract to conduct a borehole feasibility study for ARAO, Slovenia's radioactive waste mana…

Oil & Gas Trade

CNOOC Invites Foreign Firms to Bid for 19 Blocks of Offshore Oil and Gas

CNOOC had inked 228 contracts with 81 oil companies from 21 countries and regions by July, it said.

Energy-Eficient Building

Scotland Appoints World’s First Zero-Carbon Buildings Minister

Scottish Green co-leaders join forces with SNP under new power-sharing pact ahead of Cop26