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Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Hartlepool Power Station Shuts Down Nuclear Reactor for Nine Weeks

The shutdown will allow more than 1,200 pieces of work to be carried out over the next nine weeks after two years of planning. Around 500 extra workers will joi…

Oil Price

No, the Saudi Oil Attacks Were Not 'False Flag'

As a continuing series of dramas and crises distract our attention from the unresolved questions around the Yemeni attacks on Saudi Aramco, it’s vital to state…

Crude

Iran Awards Contracts to Push Ahead with Major Oil Pipeline Project

Iran has awarded contracts to three domestic engineering firms for manufacturing giant pumping devices needed for a major pipeline project that would transfer I…

Nuclear Power Plant

EDF Submits Application to Shut Down Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant

French electric utility company EDF has submitted an application seeking approval for the termination of operations and permanent shutdown of both reactors at F…

Nuclear Fuel

CNNC Started Mass Production of China Fuel 3 (CF3) Fuel Assemblies for HPR1000

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has started mass production of China Fuel 3 (CF3) fuel assemblies for the domestically-designed HPR1000 (Hualong One) …

Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Powerone of Its Factories in Japan

Toyota hydrogen fuel cells will be tested at the Japanese automaker’s Honsha Plant. With its experimental fuel cell “generator” the company will test to see …

Nuclear Technology

Nuclear Power is Losing Ground to Renewables in Terms of both Cost and Capacity

Nuclear power is losing ground to renewables in terms of both cost and capacity as its reactors are increasingly seen as less economical and slower to reverse c…

Energy Storage Battery

CATL Enters U.S. Energy Storage Market with Large-scale LFP Batteries

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), a lithium-ion battery manufacturer, will be making its official debut in the United States with the premiere…

Wind Farm

New Report Deepens Understanding of Wind-wildlife Interactions

An increase in the generation of wind energy is a key component of the U.S. strategy to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector.

The German Government Has Acted to Remove A Key Hurdle to Solar Growth

The German government has acted to remove a key hurdle to solar growth, in a deal hammered out as pressure for bold climate policies builds in the country’s st…

Nuclear Technology

Lightbridge Demonstrates SMR Fuel Rod Manufacturing

Lightbridge Corporation and Enfission, LLC have demonstrated the manufacturing process and fabrication of Lightbridge Fuel surrogate rods in a length that could…

Nuclear Power Plant

Three Mile Island Unit 1 has Been Shut Down for Economic Reasons

Operators took the 819 MWe (net) pressurised water reactor offline for the final time at midday on 20 September, after it set a site record of 709 continuous da…

China-Pakistan

Pakistan Says Curbing Power Sector Debt, Seeks Energy Investors

Pakistan expects debt being built up within its troubled power sector to level off this year and start falling, its power minister told Reuters, outlining measu…

China-Pakistan

China to Build $2bn Dam on Pakistan’s Swat River

The builder of China’s Three Gorges Dam has been contracted to build a $1.9bn hydropower project in Pakistan.

Power Construction

ABB to Support Austria's Largest Electricity Grid Expansion Project

Austria’s transmission system operator Austrian Power Grid (APG) has signed a five-year framework contract with ABB to supply gas-insulated switchgear to suppo…