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Nuclear Fuel

Dutch Research Reactor Ends Use of HEU Targets

The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group has ended its use of high-enriched uranium targets in the production of radioisotopes at the High Flux Reactor in Pet…

Nuclear Reactor

Canadian government invests in SMR project

The Canadian government has announced investments totalling just over CAD56 million (USD45 million) to support the development of small modular reactor (SMR) re…

Nuclear Power Plant

Spain Announces Plans for Dismantling Garona NPP

Spain’s government on 16 March announced its plan for dismantling the Santa María de Garoña NPP.

Crude Oil

EIA: OPEC+ Cuts To Lift Oil Prices Through April

Oil prices will likely remain at the current high levels in March and April, with Brent Crude prices averaging between $65 and $70 per barrel, after the OPEC+ g…

Solar Power Plant

Poland to Add Another 11 GW of PV Over the Next Five Years

The Eastern European country is expected to add around 2 GW per year over the next five years, according to Polish research institute Instytut Energetyki Odnawi…

Energy Storage Battery

How to Prevent Short-Circuiting in Next-Gen Lithium Batteries

As researchers push the boundaries of battery design, seeking to pack ever greater amounts of power and energy into a given amount of space or weight

Nuclear Power Plant

SNC-Lavalin Issues Blueprint to Achieve Net Zero by 2050

A new blueprint issued by Canada’s SNC-Lavalin on 11 March says achieving net-zero by 2050 for Canada is a "monumental but achievable" objective that will requ…

Neste Selects Rotterdam as a Location for Its Possible Next World-Scale Renewable Products Refinery

Neste announced in March 2020 an intention to increase its renewable products production capacity in Europe according to the company strategy.

Nuclear Fuel

TVEL Subsidiary Contracts Supplies of Nuclear Fuel Components for Research Reactor in Egypt

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency signed the contractual documents for supplies of another batch of the low-enriched…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia’s Leningrad-II Unit 2 Ready for Commercial Operation

Russian regulator Rostekhnadzor on 10 March issued a conclusion on the compliance of unit 6 of the Leningrad NPP with the requirements of technical regulations …

Oil Refinery

BP to Close Refinery in West Australia by 31 March

The Kwinana Refinery will be converted into an import terminal.

Electric Car

Volkswagen and GM Outperform Hyundai Motor Group in EV Sales in China

Among Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle models, only the Niro ranked 18th in the world's top 20 best-selling EV models in January 2021, said global EV mar…

Oil & Gas Trade

Hyundai Oilbank to Export Gasoline to the U.S. for First Tim

Hyundai Oilbank announced on March 15 that it will export gasoline products to the United States in the second quarter of the year.

Electric Vehicle Battery

Volkswagen Veers to CATL and Northvolt

Volkswagen announced on March 15 that it would use prismatic batteries instead of pouch batteries in its future electric vehicles.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Solaris Starts Deliveries of Urbino Hydrogen Buses to Cologne

In March 2020, in a tender launched by German operator Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH, Solaris Bus & Coach was selected to supply 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buse…