Nuclear Power Plant Articles & Analysis

Bloom Energy this week announced plans to install an electrolyzer at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Welch, Minnesota. The installation is designed to augment existing nuclear infrastructure to create immediate and scalable pathways to produce cost-efficient, clean hydrogen, supporting the growing hydrogen economy while enhancing value for operators of zero-carbon nuclear ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Earlier this month, the German conservative government has announced a complete dismantling of nuclear power plants by 2022. Challenged the view of many experts, and brokers of energy in Germany and throughout Europe, the German government published a controversial report proposed a possible plan to close all nuclear reactors by 2017. Can Germany really has nuclear independence by the end of ...

By Catalyst Commercial

AbTech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: ABHD) ("AbTech"), a developer and manufacturer of patented innovative environmental technologies addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, today announced the appointment of Michael D. Shea to its newly created Technical Advisory Board. The Technical Advisory Board will complement the Strategic Advisory that includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Congressman ...

By AbTech Industries Inc

Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, LLC (CENG) today issued the following statement following the East Coast earthquake. CENG’s highest priority is safety; nuclear safety, worker safety, public safety and environmental safety. CENG and its employees are safe. For safety precautions, the Candler building in Baltimore was evacuated. Other buildings were evacuated as a ...

By Constellation Energy

The PJM Interconnection’s independent market monitor says in a new report that PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets produced competitive results through the first nine months of 2016, but recommended new changes to enhance competitiveness and efficiency. The report, released by PJM’s Independent Market Monitor Monitoring Analytics, found that energy market ...

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

Nuclear power is a major topic in South Korea. The country is one of the largest generators of electricity from nuclear plants in the world. It has 23 reactors built with a total capacity of 20.5 gigawatts, another five are under construction and two more are planned. This makes South Korea fifth in the world in installed capacity. So the issue could not be left out of the World Conference of ...

By SciDev.Net

Seven weeks of on-site tests were recently completed at a major pipeline company in the Southwest to determine the effectiveness of the InfraSpec VFA-IR Spectrometer, Model EB, for detecting biodiesel contamination in diesel fuels about to enter the pipeline. Over 20 different diesel fuels were tested for the presence of biodiesel and if they would cause false positive readings. The testing ...

By AMETEK Spectro Scientific

On Monday April 7, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will begin the staged release of the complete Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014), expanding on the AEO2014 Reference case tables and highlights that were issued in December 2013. The April 7 release will include the first of eight Issues in Focus articles, which will be released according to the schedule below over the next ...

By U.S. Energy Information Administration

New York state officials took their battle against relicensing of the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River to another level today. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano have submitted documents asking the federal government to deny the relicensing of Indian Point sought by owner-operator Entergy ...

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Failure to build an essential power line across the James River may mean resorting to controlled blackouts to ensure grid reliability in the Virginia Peninsula, the state’s biggest utility told a regional grid operator last week. Dominion Resources says that the impending closure of its two Yorktown coal-fired power plants in April, along with a lack of nearby transmission capacity, could ...

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

The market for small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) could grow rapidly and reach annual sales levels of $153 billion by 2030. This is the latest forecast in the online N043 Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis and Forecast published by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com). There will be a real market for SMR and all the components. With projects in China and the U.S. ...

By The McIlvaine Company

Huhne pleads for caution on the UK’s nuclear build programme, while Merkel takes the opportunity to move away from nuclear power. Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, reiterated safety must be a top priority and that it was important that the "full facts" were at the Government’s disposal before making any decisions on the new nuclear programme. He set up the timetable for a review into ...

By Vital Energi

The IAEA has revised upwards its nuclear power generation projections to 2030, while at the same time it reported that nuclear´s share of global electricity generation dropped another percentage point in 2007 to 14%. This compares to the nearly steady share of 16% to 17% that nuclear power maintained for almost two decades, from 1986 through 2005. In its 2008 edition of Energy, Electricity and ...

By The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Now in its fifth year and co-located with POWER-GEN International, the world's largest power generation event, NUCLEAR POWER International 2011 heads to Las Vegas, Nev., December 13-15 to provide the industry with up-to-date information for the nuclear power industry, including panel discussions on technical and crisis communication, major nuclear project updates, and the lessons learned ...

By PennWell Corporation

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By Albarrie Canada Limited

The project, expected to cost between $10 billion and $15 billion, was first touted in 2009 as part of a drive to find alternatives to coal-fired power. Since then it has been delayed as falling power prices weakened its economic case and Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident hit public support. Now PGE's move last December to scrap a 250 million zloty ($65.87 million) contract with ...

By VF, a.s.

Workers started removing radioactive fuel rods Monday from a reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The painstaking and risky task is a crucial first step toward a full cleanup of the earthquake and tsunami-damaged plant in northeastern Japan. The Unit 4 reactor was offline at the time of the March 2011 disaster, and its core ...

By The Associated Press

UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that its adsorbent ion exchange products are successfully being used by Toshiba Corporation and Shaw Global Services LLC for the cleanup of radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The Simplified Active Water Retrieve and Recovery System (SARRY) is utilizing UOP IONSIV™ Ion Exchangers to ...

By UOP LLC - a Honeywell Company

Bechtel has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for replacing three steam generators at Unit 2 of FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company's (FENOC) Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Bechtel replaced three steam generators at Beaver Valley Unit 1 in 2006. "We have a long-standing relationship with FENOC and look ...

By Bechtel Corporation

The Earth Policy Institute’s 11th and final book, The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy will be hitting bookstores on April 20. The Great Transition, written by EPI’s research team—Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams—focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by ...

By Earth Policy Institute