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  • An artist’s rendition of a GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 nuclear unit. The BWRX-300 is a 300-MW boiling water reactor (BWR) that derives from the Gen III+ 1,520-MW ESBWR, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified in 2014. Courtesy: GEH
    Nuclear

    Major Nuclear Players Team on Innovative Construction Delivery Approach for BWRX-300 SMR at Darlington

    Ontario Power Generation (OPG), GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), SNC-Lavalin, and Aecon have signed a trailblazing six-year alliance agreement designed to bolster the deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at the Darlington New Nuclear Project (DNNP) in Clarington, Ontario. The contract unveiled on Jan. 27—a year after OPG selected GEH’s BWRX-300 for the […]

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    News

    AECOM Sells Power Business as Part of Restructuring

    AECOM has announced the closing of the sale of its Power construction business to affiliates of CriticalPoint Capital LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Los Angeles, California-based infrastructure consulting firm, which this month announced a restructuring plan, earlier this year closed on the $2.4 billion sale of its Maryland-based Management Services business—which […]

  • Coal

    AECOM selected to provide clean closure of a coal ash impoundment involving the beneficial use of ponded ash

    LOS ANGELES (October 17, 2019) — AECOM, the world’s premier infrastructure firm, announced today it will provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for the clean closure of the coal ash pond at A.B. Brown Generating Station located outside Evansville, Indiana. The project will remove up to 6,000,000 tons of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) from […]

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    Top Plant

    SCR Project Upgrades Two Units at Four Corners

    The numbers tell the story of how the addition of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology helped an iconic New Mexico coal-fired plant reduce its emissions, keeping the plant in operation and continuing

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    Coal

    Clean Air Program Makes Shawnee Power Plant a Winner

    Emissions standards have changed a lot since the Shawnee Fossil Plant entered service during President Eisenhower’s second term in office, but the Tennessee Valley Authority has done its part to help the

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    O&M

    Advanced Boiler and HRSG Designs Offer Improved Performance

    Innovative boiler and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) designs are improving efficiency, reducing emissions, and lowering maintenance costs. Some well-proven technology, such as circulating fluidized bed

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    Nuclear

    AECOM, EnergySolutions Joint Venture to Decommission San Onofre Nuclear Plant

    After a 10-month competitive bid process, Southern California Edison (SCE) has selected a joint venture of AECOM and EnergySolutions as the general contractor for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) decommissioning. “We are pleased to announce the selection of the AECOM/EnergySolutions team, a global joint venture with extensive commercial and government decommissioning experience around […]

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    O&M

    Leveraging Drones and Robots for O&M Savings

    If you’re still thinking of drones and robots as more toy than tool, think again. The drones now working in the power sector have gone far beyond remote-control hobbies and now resemble something closer to