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Wind Turbine

Turbine on Fire: Video Shows Wind Turbine in Northern Lasalle County Burning

On Thursday, the Mendota and Troy Grove Fire Departments were dispatched to a wind turbine on fire in northern LaSalle County.

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…

Nuclear Technology

Argonne Researchers Win Defense Programs Award for Nuclear Safety Work

stock image only - Argonne National LaboratoryAward recognizes work carried out in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers to secu…

Nuclear Reactor

Gidropress to Develop Fast Microreactor

OKB Gidropress, a major Russian design Bureau, is developing a fast neutron 10MWe Generation 4 microreactor, SVET-M, for small NPPs. Sergei Lyakishev, Head of t…

Solar Cell

A Closer Look at Potential-Induced Degradation in Solar Cells

UK scientists have examined the impacts of potential-induced degradation (PID) in solar cells and modules, based on a field study from a 1.2 MW PV system in Spa…

Nuclear Power Plant

Updates on Five Big Nuclear Energy Developments POWER Was Watching in 2022

In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) published a list of five nuclear energy stories to watch in 2…

Nepal

Nepal’s Power Sector Fears It Will Lose ‘Competitive Advantage’ Due to India’s New Policy on Hydropower Projects

The waiver is already available to solar and wind power projects. The government has set an ambitious plan to have 500 GW of generation capacity from non-fossil…

Wind Farm

Neoen Inks 215-Mw Ppa for Queensland Wind Project

Wind farm. Author: Dirk Ingo Franke. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 GenericFrench renewables company Neoen SA (EPA:NEOEN) today said it h…

Nuclear Reactor

Should the Pentagon Invest in Microreactors?

(imaginima/Getty Images; NASA)It’s not clear whether the Department of Defense should continue to develop new types of microreactors — primarily because …

Nuclear waste

Prototype Wagon for Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Ordered

The US Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Administration awarded ENSCO a contract to manufacture and test a prototype Fortis eight-axle heavy-duty wagon for tr…

Natural Gas

Turkey boosts Black Sea natural gas reserves with new discovery and existing offshore work

(Bloomberg) — Turkey boosted its estimate of natural gas reserves in the Black Sea by nearly a third, thanks to appraisal work at an existing field and a separ…

Oil Exploration

Oil Explorer Inpex to Merge Tokyo Trading Unit Into Singapore Desk

TOKYO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Japanese oil and gas explorer Inpex Corp (1605.T) plans to absorb its separate Tokyo trading business into the company in April 2024, …

Electric Car

A new national resolution recognizing the urgent need for resources, infrastructure, stakeholder collaboration and equity to address the rapid growth of transportation electrification was shared with

A new national resolution recognizing the urgent need for resources, infrastructure, stakeholder collaboration and equity to address the rapid growth of transpo…

Electric Car

Rolls-Royce UltraFan Technology Demonstrator Build Complete; Ready To Test With 100% SAF

Rolls-Royce has completed building and is preparing to test its UltraFan technology demonstrator. The demonstrator engine was transported from the build worksho…

Uranium Project

GE Hitachi And Holtec Submit SMR Designs For UK Assessment

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has submitted a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) entry application for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) to the UK Departm…