Waste

CCGT

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Wins 1950 MW Power Upgrade

Project will incorporate three 1650℃ MHPS M701JAC-type GTCC power generating facilities

Clean emission

Veolia Waste-to-Energy Facility Starts Low Carbon Heat Delivery in UK

England, has now started delivering low carbon heat for local homes.

Scottish Water to Looks to Produce Hydrogen from Wastewater

Water and sewage company Scottish Water has developed a new method to produce hydrogen and oxygen from its wastewater.

Canada, UK Strengthen Nuclear Collaboration

This follows an MoU they signed in 2016 to collaborate on a variety of projects in reactor metallurgy, fuel development, waste management and medical radioisoto…

Nuclear Fuel

Trump's Nevada Play Leaves Nation's Nuclear Waste in Limbo

President Donald Trump is seeking to woo Nevada voters by abandoning the GOP’s decades of support for storing the nation’s nuclear waste under a mountain nort…

Wind Turbine

Coal & Gas Emissions Are 1500–3000× The Mass Of Waste Wind Turbine Blades

Recently, reasonable groups have been raising moderate concerns about the growing stacks of wind turbine blades in landfills. Other reasonable people have been …

Crude

South Sudan Ignores Reports on Oil Pollution, Birth Defects

The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy met…

New Research to Help Identify Safe Sites for Nuclear Waste Storage

New insights into rates of bedrock erosion by glaciers around the world will help to identify better sites for the safe storage of nuclear waste, according to r…

Wind Turbine

Used Wind Turbine Blades Pose a Growing Waste Problem

What happens to wind turbine blades after their operational lifespan ends? Although wind power is considered one of the cleanest types of energy...

Nuclear Fuel

Canadian Company Seeks New Site to Bury Nuclear Waste

A power company is reconsidering its options after dropping plans to bury waste from its nuclear plants on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, officials said Wedn…

Thermal Plant

Ghana to Construct 400KW Waste-to-Energy Plant

Ghana is set to construct a 400KW hybrid waste-to-energy power plant to treat urban solid waste in the country. Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of …

Oil and Gas Technology

Portuguese Tech Institute to Produce Advanced Biofuels From Tree-Pruning-waste

A project to use the waste from pruning vines and fruit trees to produce advanced biofuel is being developed at the BLC3 Campus of Technology and Innovation in …

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Vestas to Produce Zero-Waste Wind Turbines by 2040

Solid waste contributes an estimated 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and Vestas says waste generated from wind turbine blades could be as much as million…

Nuclear Technology

Nuclear Waste Could Be Recycled for Diamond Battery Power

A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol hope to recycle radioactive material directly from a former nuclear power plant in Gloucestersh…

Nuclear Fuel

Nuclear Waste could be More Useful

Chemists have found a new use for the waste product of nuclear power - transforming an unused stockpile into a versatile compound which could be used to create …