Category: Nuclear

March 6, 2023

Vistra has reached an agreement to acquire Energy Harbor in a $3.43 billion deal, including debt. When the transaction closes, Energy Harbor’s nuclear and retail businesses would merge under a new Vistra subsidiary the company is calling “Vistra Vision.” Both […]

February 21, 2023

Constellation said it plans to invest $800 million in new equipment to increase the output of its Braidwood and Byron Generating Stations in Illinois by approximately 135 MW. The utility said that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 caused it […]

February 21, 2023

Alternatives to carbon-producing energy sources are becoming ever more imperative as climate change shows its effects on the Earth and in our daily lives. Although fossil fuels still generate much of the electricity in the United States, utilities are increasingly […]

February 6, 2023

The tumultuous events impacting the energy sector over the past year have highlighted the benefits of nuclear technology, according to Crawforth. This has accelerated the development of progressive nuclear technologies, in turn, causing a new wave of nuclear deployment across […]

February 1, 2023

In July 1968, the U.S. Army sent the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Sturgis, to the Panama Canal to help overcome a regional hydroelectric power plant shortage, which was driven by a severe drought and worsened by increased […]

February 1, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the process by which two light nuclei combine to form […]

January 3, 2023

While the nuclear industry has sought acceptance by climate advocates for nearly a decade, events over the past year appear to have buoyed nuclear’s prospects and finally set it afloat within the discourse about decarbonization. The dramatic shift took shape […]

December 22, 2022

Japan adopted a plan December 22 to extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors, replace the old and even build new ones, a major shift in a country scarred by the Fukushima disaster that once planned to phase out atomic power. […]

December 19, 2022

Major French utility Electricite de France SA (EDF) said it will again extend maintenance outages at some of its nuclear reactors by several months, meaning France will continue to import power and putting more strain on the country’s supply of […]

December 15, 2022

Nuclear will play a crucial role in the transition to net-zero, not only because it’s the second-lowest emitter of CO2, but also because its resilience and reliability ensures security of supply in a system using increasing amounts of intermittent renewables. […]

December 13, 2022

The first nuclear fusion reaction to result in a net energy gain has been successfully completed by scientists at a laboratory in California, a milestone in the decades-long pursuit of a way to produce unlimited energy with no carbon emissions […]

December 1, 2022

The Japanese have been hesitant to re-embrace nuclear power following the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, but there are indications that nuclear power could ramp up again in Japan sooner rather than later. Prime Minister […]

November 23, 2022

About 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh is the Westinghouse Waltz Mill site, part of the company’s expansive footprint in western Pennsylvania. The Waltz Mill site provides maintenance services, testing and calibration for nuclear reactor servicing equipment. The pre-1960s facility once […]

November 21, 2022

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted Abilene Christian University’s (ACU’s) construction permit application for a 1-MWth nuclear non-power Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility planned for the university’s campus in Abilene, north-central Texas. The acceptance—which essentially marks the NRC […]

November 14, 2022

The prospects for building a new fleet of full-sized nuclear power plants in the US is growing dimmer by the minute, but a tiny candle of hope has begun to flicker in the emerging area of small modular reactors. In […]

November 2, 2022

Days after Poland chose Westinghouse to supply its AP1000 technology to the country’s first nuclear plant in Pomerania, northern Poland, the government and two Polish energy firms signed a letter of intent with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to […]

November 1, 2022

China’s nuclear power program has utilized several technologies over the years, drawing on the expertise of its own engineers and those of other nations while pursuing its own reactor development and technology export program. The country’s 14th Five-Year Plan for […]

October 19, 2022

Southern Company and TerraPower completed installation of a test facility at TerraPower’s laboratory in Everett, Washington, an important step to advance TerraPower’s next-generation nuclear reactor. The Integrated Effects Test (IET) is a multi-loop test facility with a non-nuclear system that […]

October 14, 2022

Shovels are officially in the ground at a $300 million nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. X-energy’s TRISO-X facility is being funded initially as part of a $3.2 billion federal program to develop, build and demonstrate advanced nuclear […]

October 13, 2022

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Czech Republic-based ČEZ are collaborating to advance deployment of nuclear technology, including small modular reactors (SMRs). The companies said they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Oct. 11, with an aim to “reduce financial, […]