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Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Nuclear Reactor

Bulgaria Energy Strategy Includes Four New Nuclear Reactors

Energy minister Rossen Hristov has set out an energy strategy for 2023 to 2053 for Bulgaria, which includes plans for two new reactors at Kozloduy and two at Be…

Canada

Candu Fuel Plant Relicensed to 2043

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)'s authorisation of the 20-year renewal of Cameco Fuel Manufacturing's (CFM) operating licence for the faci…

India

Ballard, Adani & Ashok Leyland Team Up to Develop H2 Truck

Ballard Power Systems has signed an agreement to launch a pilot project to develop a hydrogen fuel cell electric truck for mining operations with Adani and Asho…

Japan

Toyota Unveils AE86 Hydrogen Car Concept

The vehicle places the spotlight on the potential for H2 a burning internal combustion engine.To draw greater attention to the appeal an H2-burning internal com…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE Announces New Funding for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $2.3 million in funding for 10 projects that will pair private industry with DOE's National Laboratories t…

United Kingdom

Transfer of Waste From Berkeley Vaults Begins

The first concrete box containing radioactive waste from underground vaults at the shut down Berkeley nuclear power plant in the UK has been transferred to an i…

Geothermal Power Plant

Saudia Arabia to Undertake Geothermal Exploration

Mountain Range near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (source: flickr/ yosoynuts, creative commons)The Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Geological Survey (SG…

Solar Power Plant

Longroad Energy Developing 285-Mw Solar + Storage Project in Arizona

Longroad Energy’s operational 200-MWDC Sun Streams 2 solar project. The company’s adjacent SunStreams 3 – a 285-MWDC and 215 MWac /860 MWh sol…

Hydrogen Production

ACWA Power, Austria-Based Electricity Firm to Develop Green Hydrogen

The green hydrogen to be generated will be used by Verbund.ACWA Power signed a memorandum of understanding with Verbund, an Austria-based electricity firm, to e…

Offshore Wind Power

CIP Enters Irish Offshore Market With Landmark Statkraft Deal

Image by shaunwilkinson on 123rfCopenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has acquired a 50% stake in Statkraft’s offshore wind portfolio in Ireland, a dea…

Oil Exploration

All-Systems-Go for Equinor to Deploy Shelf Drilling Rig at North Sea Oil & Gas Field

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use one of Shelf Drilling’s jack-up …

Oil & Gas Trade

Global Oil Demand Will Surge to Record This Year as China Reopens, Iea Says

A drilling platform at Norway's giant offshore Johan Sverdrup field.Global oil demand will surge to a record this year following the end of coronavirus rest…

Ammonia

Japan’s Largest Power Generator Signs Deals in Pursuit of Ammonia for Coal Power Plant Co-firing Project

JERA Co. Inc., Japan’s largest power generation company, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for potential collaboration for the joint…

Wind Energy Technology

What’s Stopping Even Bigger Wind Turbines? Blade Speed and Flexing? More Likely Manufacturing and Installation Capacity

Bigger wind turbines make cheaper energy. The sector’s unexpectedly rapid successes in designing and building bigger and bigger turbines has been one of t…