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Metal

Energy Fuels Produces 99.9% Pure Dysprosium Oxide at Utah Mill

Energy Fuels has produced its first kilogram of dysprosium (Dy) oxide with a purity of 99.9% at the White Mesa Mill in Utah, surpassing the commercial specifica…

Germany

Port of Hamburg Marks New Multi-Purpose Terminal Digitalization Milestone

UNIKAI, part of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, and AKQUINET completed the AKIDU project, enhancing digitalization at the Port of Hamburg’s O’Swald…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Taiwan Nuclear Plant Re-Opening Vote Fails as Approval Threshold Missed

On Saturday, a referendum to reopen the Maanshan nuclear power plant in southern Taiwan failed to meet the required voter threshold. The vote, proposed by the T…

Thermal Plant

Brazil Plans to Ask Power Plants to Bid on Supplying Capacity

Brazil’s government has announced plans to conduct two rounds of bidding in 2026 for hydroelectric and fossil-fuel thermal power plants to enhance electricity …

Carbon Storage

Northern Lights: Third and Fourth LNG-Fueled LCO2 Carriers See First Light of Day

China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has launched two new liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) car…

United States

OCOChem and Adm to Build CO2 Electrolysis Demonstration Plant in Illinois

OCOchem, based in Richland, Washington, has signed a production partnership agreement with ADM Company of Chicago to construct a demonstration plant using OCOch…

SMR

Sweden’s Vattenfall Shortlists Rolls-Royce, GE Vernova to Build SMR Nuclear Reactors

On Thursday, Vattenfall selected Britain’s Rolls-Royce SMR and U.S.-based GE Vernova to supply small modular nuclear reactors for its Ringhals plant in so…

China

China Suspends Argentine Poultry Imports Five Months After Ban Lifted

China suspended imports of Argentine poultry products on August 20, 2025, five months after lifting a two-year ban, following Argentina’s export pause due…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

US Prolongs Michigan Coal Plant’s Operation Until November Despite Costs

The U.S. Energy Department extended an order for the J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Michigan, to remain operational until November 19, 2025. The 1,500-…

Battery

Australia Launches Fund to Expand Battery Manufacturing

Australian businesses can now access AUD 500 million in capital grants and production incentives through the Battery Breakthrough Initiative (BBI), managed by t…

SMR

Blykalla and Research Institutes of Sweden Partner on SMRs

Swedish company Blykalla, a developer of lead-cooled small modular reactor (SMR) technology, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Research Institut…

Gas power plant

Shell-FOCOL JV Books Nikkiso for Its LNG-To-Power Project in Bahamas

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (Nikkiso CE&IG), a subsidiary of Japan’s Nikkiso, has been contracted by New Providence Gas (NPG), a joint v…

China

China’s Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical First Half Profit Slides

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co, a major Chinese refining and chemical company, recorded a net loss of 462.1 million yuan ($64.40 million) for the first half …

Oil Refinery

Indiana’s BP Refinery Restarts After Severe Flooding

BP’s 440,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Whiting, Indiana, the largest in the U.S. Midwest, began restarting operations on August 20, 2025, following disru…

Metal

China’s Rare Earth Magnet Exports Hit Six-Month High in July

China's exports of rare earth magnets, essential for electric vehicle production, surged to a six-month peak in July, recovering to levels seen before expor…