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Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Key Equipment Delivered to Tianwan 8

One of the steam generators for Tianwan 8Kay equipment has been delivered to China’s Tianwan NPP in Jiangsu province including two steam generators, the r…

Nuclear Fuel

Further Delay to Japanese Reprocessing and Mox Plants

Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) now expects the reprocessing plant and mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel plant under construction at Rokkasho in Japan's Aomori Prefe…

Nuclear Equipment

Pilot Fuel Elements Produced for MBIR Fast Neutron Research Reactor

A pilot batch of fuel elements has successfully passed acceptance tests for compliance with the technological and design documentation for Russia's MBIR mul…

Geothermal Power Plant

ORIX Re-Opens Suginoi Geothermal Power Plant in Kyushu, Japan

The Suginoi geothermal power plant in Beppu City, Kyushu, Japan (source: ORIX)After being shut down for more than 2 years, Orix Corporation (ORIX) has resumed o…

Offshore Wind Power

MET Group Completes 23.4 MW of Solar in Hungary

MET Group has built its second solar plant in Hungary, in the eastern town of Kaba.The MET Kaba II solar park lies adjacent to the company’s first solar a…

United States

Biden Administration Announces 3.1GW Floating Wind Auction Offshore Oregon

Credit: John Moore via Getty Images.The Biden Administration has announced that it will auction two areas covering 194,995 acres (789km²) off the coast of Oreg…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Seismic Work to Begin at Gas Fields Shared by Trinidad and Venezuela, Min Says

Trinidad's Energy Minister Stuart Young and Venezuela's Oil Minister Pedro Tellechea pose for a photograph while President Nicolas Maduro applauds durin…

Oil & Gas Trade

Marathon Oil Secures Stockholder Approval for $22.5bn Merger With Conocophillips

Marathon Oil is being acquired by ConocoPhillips in an all-stock deal worth $22.5bn. (Credit: Marathon Petroleum Corporation)American petroleum company Marathon…

Russian Federation

Pilot Fuel Elements for Mbir Research Reactor Pass Acceptance Tests

The MBIR will be used for the development of materials for Generation IV fast neutron reactors. Courtesy Rosatom.Pilot fuel elements for the Generation IV MBIR …

Solar Power Plant

The US Government Opens up More Federal Lands for Solar – To 31 Million Acres

Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM CaliforniaThe Biden administration has finalized a plan to expand solar on 31 million acres of federal lands in 11 western st…

Pumped Storage

Sarawak Delegation Explores Pumped Storage Hydropower in Australia

Adelegation from Sarawak’s Ministry of Utility and Telecommunication (MUT) and Sarawak Energy visited the Snowy Hydro Tumut 3 facility in New South Wales,…

Hydropower Plant

Hydropower Generation Expected to Rise in the US Despite Climate Uncertainty

Researchers found that hydropower generation may generally increase with climate change, although some regions face drier conditions. (Photograph by Andrea Star…

Nuclear Fuel

Framatome Approved to Transport Higher-Enriched Fuel

Framatome announced that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a licence amendment allowing transport of fresh nuclear fuel assemblies in the …

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

GEN Energija Favours Large Units Over Smrs for Slovenia’s JEK2

Reports on flood safety, nuclear fuel supplies, radioactive waste disposal and also an overview of small modular reactors as an option have been published by GE…

Offshore Wind Power

Vattenfall and German Steel Manufacturer Sign PPA for Nordlicht 1 Offshore Wind Farm

Vattenfall has signed a long-term electricity supply contract with the steel producer Salzgitter for 75 MW of electricity to come from the Nordlicht 1 offshore …