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Nuclear waste

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant Completion Delayed Again

The Rokkasho reprocessing plant (Image: JNFL)JNFL said it decided to revise the completion date of plant due to the ongoing conformity review for Design and Con…

SMR

Copenhagen Atomics Puts Forward SMR Design for UK Appraisal

UK Atomics - a subsidiary of Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics - has submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) entry application for its small and modular thor…

SMR

NuScale Marks SMR Progress in USA, Romania

NuScale Power Corporation has submitted an application for approval of its updated small modular reactor design to US nuclear regulators. The company has also s…

SMR

Nuclear In Space / Work Begins On Design Of ‘Made In Italy’ Mini Reactor

Agreement paves way for cooperation on development and roadmap towards productionUS space agency Nasa haas chosen three companies to provide an initial design c…

Nuclear Power Plant

Samsung completes design of CMSR Power Barge

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has completed the conceptual design for the CMSR Power Barge - a floating nuclear power plant based on c…

SMR

Nuscale Completes Standard Plant Design Project

US-based NuScale Power Corporation said it has completed the Standard Plant Design (SPD) project for its VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) ahead of schedule. Th…

Nuclear Technology

Russia’s Nuclear Industry Looks to Robots

Rusatom Service (part of Rosatom) has signed an agreement with Technored for cooperation in the field of robotics. Technored, founded in 2018, is now based in S…

Nuclear Technology

Rosatom Develops New Technology for Decontamination of NPP Equipment Using Ozone

A technology unique to the Russian nuclear industry has been developed by order of Rosatom’s fuel company Tvel at the Troitsk Institute for Innovation & F…

China

Huasun Unveils 715 W Heterojunction Solar Module

China’s Huasun launched a new line of five heterojunction (HJT) solar modules in 2022, with power outputs ranging from 680 W to 700 W. The company has now…

Energy Storage Project

Battery storage projects from RWE and Hitachi Energy in Germany, Switzerland & Dutch Developer Deal

RWE commissions solar-plus-storage system at lignite mine in NRWMultinational energy firm RWE has commissioned a solar-plus-storage project at its Inden lignite…

Solar Power Plant

Utility Hawaiian Electric has said that the AES Waikoloa solar PV and battery storage project on Hawaii Island is nearing completion.

The system is due to begin commercial operations by April this year, or earlier. When it does, it will begin delivering power to the utility under a 25-year pow…

LNG

Gazprom JV Sues Linde Over Stalled LNG Project

A court in St. Petersburg has frozen the Russian assets of industrial gases and engineering giant Linde, which is being sued by a Gazprom joint venture over a s…

Energy Subsidies

Only N3.36 Trillion Has Been Earmarked for Fuel Subsidy in 2023 Budget – Finance Minister

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has revealed that only N3.36 trillion was earmarked for fuel subsidy in Nigeria’s 2023 budget.She d…

Coal Trade

China Nears Lifting Over Two-Year-Old Unofficial Ban on Australian Coal Imports

China is close to lifting a more than two-year-old unofficial ban on Australian thermal and coking coal imports for its power and steel plants, as the country l…

Oil Exploration

First Oil Flows Into Jack-up Rig After It Gets New Lease on Life as Mopu

India’s government-owned company Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has welcomed the first oil flowing into a jack-up rig, which was recently converted …