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The first new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 begins splitting atoms

March 7, 2023

Oil Price The Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear power reactor has safely reached initial criticality, a milestone toward full commercial operations expected later this year in what would be the first new nuclear reactor in the United States starting activity since 2016. Vogtle Unit 3 has safely reached initial criticality, Georgia Power, Southern Nuclear, and Westinghouse Electric Company said this week. Initial criticality

Biden offers $1.2 billion to nuclear power plants at risk of closure

March 2, 2023

Oil Price As part of a program to support nuclear power generation and the goal of zero-carbon electricity by 2035, the Biden Administration on Thursday offered funding of $1.2 billion to nuclear power reactors that are at risk of retiring soon or that ceased operations since November 15, 2021. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released application guidance for the second award

Dow and X-energy to build U.S. Gulf Coast nuclear demonstration plant

March 1, 2023

Yahoo Finance WASHINGTON – Dow Inc and private company X-energy said on Wednesday they have agreed to develop and demonstrate the first grid-scale next-generation nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. The X-energy Xe-100 plant featuring four high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors is set to be built at one of Dow’s sites on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The companies plan

U.S. to announce scientific breakthrough on fusion energy -sources

December 12, 2022

Yahoo News Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a “major scientific breakthrough” this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a “net energy gain” from an experimental

U.S. grants $1.1 bln to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open

November 21, 2022

Reuters The Biden administration said on Monday it has approved conditional funding of up to $1.1 billion to prevent the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Santa Barbara as part of the national effort to fight climate change. The Pacific Gas & Electric plant, which was set to fully shut in 2025, applied for funding in the initial phase

U.S. funds projects to explore nuclear waste reprocessing

October 21, 2022

Investing WASHINGTON – The U.S. Energy Department on Thursday announced $36 million for projects addressing toxic waste expected to come from a new generation of nuclear reactors, plants the Biden administration sees as a crucial to fight climate change. The 11 projects, funded through the department’s ARPA-E program supporting energy research into high risk, but potentially transformational projects, aim

America’s new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem

October 20, 2022

Mining.com U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s Russian. That’s why the U.S. government is urgently looking to use some of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium to help fuel the new advanced reactors and kick-start

Europe is still quietly importing Russian nuclear energy

October 14, 2022

CNBC Russia’s nuclear fuel industry remains conspicuously untouched by European sanctions more than seven months into the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine — much to the dismay of Kyiv officials and environmental campaigners. Despite eight rounds of sanctions, targeted measures against energy exports and calls from Ukraine to impose a full embargo on nuclear trade, shipments of nuclear fuel to EU

California lawmakers extend the life of the state’s last nuclear power plant

September 1, 2022

NPR Citing searing summer temperatures and expected energy shortages, California lawmakers approved legislation aimed at extending the life of the state’s last-operating nuclear power plant. The Diablo Canyon plant – the state’s largest single source of electricity – had been slated to shutter by 2025. The last-minute proposal passed by the state legislature early Thursday could keep it open five years longer,

Russian-held nuclear plant disconnects from Ukraine grid for first time – Energoatom

August 25, 2022

US News KYIV -Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was completely disconnected from the Ukrainian grid for the first time ever on Thursday after nearby fires interfered with power lines, state nuclear company Energoatom said. It said that fires broke out in the ash pits of a coal power station near the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex – Europe’s largest nuclear

Israel: Nuclear deal would give Iran $100 billion to destabilise region

August 24, 2022

Yahoo News JERUSALEM – A new nuclear deal between world powers and Iran would allow other nations to avoid sanctions and give Teheran $100 billion a year to destabilise the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday. The United States aims to respond soon to a draft accord proposed by the European Union that would restore the

Oil falls on economic data, awaits news of Iran nuclear deal

August 16, 2022

Nasdaq KUALA LUMPUR – Oil prices slipped on Tuesday as traders eyed the latest progress in last-ditch talks to revive the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, which would clear the way to boost its crude exports in a tight market. Brent crude LCOc1 futures were down 86 cents, or 0.9%, at $95.79 a barrel at 0725 GMT, after gaining 1.8% in the previous session. U.S. West Texas

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