Power plants

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

French Regulator Approves EDF Schedule for Weld Checks

France's nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN), has approved EDF's revised programme to rectify st…

Coal Production

ADB to study early coal retirement in Kazakhstan

This will be accomplished through the bank’s energy transition mechanism program.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is studying opportunities to speed up th…

Energy Storage System

Grid Inertia Measurement Trial at Australia’s Biggest Battery Storage Project

The Australian government is funding a trial of grid inertia measurement at the Victorian Big Battery, aiming to develop real-time, accurate assessments of the …

Wind Farm

Ingeteam Launches a Control System for Hybridising Wind and Solar Power Plants

It is a system that allows the hybridization of wind farms with photovoltaic plants and energy storage systems in batteries.The first units are in the certifica…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Biden Plans to Slash Planet-Warming Pollution From Power Plants

Joe Biden at COP26 in Glasgow. (Image by the World Economic Forum, Flickr.)The Biden administration is preparing to propose limits on greenhouse gas emissions f…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Partnership Formed to Deploy Seaborg’s Power Barge

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg Technologies have established a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plan…

Electric Vehicles

In World First, Gogoro’s EV Battery Swap Stations Becoming Virtual Power Plants

You may already be familiar with Gogoro’s battery swapping stations, known as GoStations, which have famously created the de facto standard in swappable l…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuclear Leaders Issue Call for Action From G7

World Nuclear Association and nuclear trade associations from Canada, Japan, Europe, the UK and the USA have issued a declaration calling on G7 governments to s…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Giant Finnish Nuclear Power Plant Starts Production

This chart from the EIA shows sources of uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants, 1950-2021. In 2020, according to the chart, 39.60 million pounds of uranium oxid…

Nuclear Fuel

“On the Verge of a Crisis”: The U.S. Nuclear Fuel Gordian Knot

This chart from the EIA shows sources of uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants, 1950-2021. In 2020, according to the chart, 39.60 million pounds of uranium oxid…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

How to Decommission a Nuclear Power Plant

Germany's last three nuclear power plants will stop generating electricity from Saturday but the arduous and decades-long process of decommissioning the sit…

Nuclear Fuel

Cameco, Energoatom Fuel Deal Implemented

Cameco and Energoatom have signed the last agreement needed for the implementation of a programme to export all of Ukraine's uranium production for processi…

Nuclear Reactor

In Pictures: Tokamak Energy’s Fusion Plant Concept

The UK-based nuclear fusion company Tokamak Energy has released the first images of how its future commercial fusion power plants could look.The company is stre…

Nuclear Power Plant

Indian Minister Eyes 9% Nuclear Share by 2047

Installed nuclear capacity is set to more than triple by 2031, and nuclear power plants are likely to generate about 9% of the country's electricity by 2047…

Nuclear Reactor

Nuclear Phase-Out Would Increase Pollution Deaths, Says Study

If the USA were to shut down its nuclear power plants, the pollution from the coal, gas, and oil that would be used to make up the generation shortfall would re…