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Gas
Japan, Korea Groups Will Build 2.4-GW Gas-Fired Power Plant in Qatar
Four major Japanese and Korean energy companies have jointly won the rights to build and operate a natural gas-fired power plant and a seawater desalination facility near Doha in Qatar. Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corp. on Nov. 26 announced it will lead the group, which includes Japan’s Shikoku Electric Power along with Korea Southern Power and Korea […]
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Nuclear
Bringing the APR1400 Reactor to Market
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducts an extensive evaluation of reactor technology before approving and ultimately licensing nuclear power plants. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. began the
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Nuclear
South Korea Reports Fusion Research Progress
A superconducting tokamak at the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) in South Korea has achieved a world record of more than 70 seconds in high-performance plasma operation. Researchers hailed the achievement as a “huge step forward for the realization of fusion power.” According to NFRI, researchers used a fully non-inductive operation mode—a “high poloidal beta […]
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Renewables
TOP PLANT: Yeongheung Ocean Hydro Power Plants, Yeongheung Island, South Korea
Owner/operator: Korea South East Power Co., Ltd. Few people would view a large coal plant as a place to generate renewable energy. But a Korean utility took a chance on an innovative approach, harnessing the latent energy of the plant’s cooling effluent to drive a trio of hydroelectric plants, and in so doing, created a […]
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Press Releases
Powering Jeju Island: Doosan & Alstom Acquisitions Help Secure GE’s Total Power Island Order in Asia
First Power Island Solution Provided by GE in Asia – enabled by Alstom acquisition First use of newly-acquired HRSG technology from Doosan SEOUL, KOREA—September 20, 2016— GE’s power island will literally power an island – Jeju Island that is! GE Power, a division of GE (NYSE: GE), today announced the first order of its power […]
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News
POWER Digest (November 2014)
Finland Rejects Permit Extension for Olkiluoto Reactor. Finland’s government on Sept. 25 rejected an application from utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) to extend a permit for its proposed Olkiluoto 4 reactor for five years. TVO requested the extension in light of delays from its Olkiluoto 3 EPR project, which is being built by an AREVA-Siemens […]
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Gas
Korean Utility Plans First Underground Combined Cycle Power Plant
The oldest power plant in South Korea is making way for something so new that no one has even attempted it before. Korea Midland Power Corp. (KOMIPO) announced earlier this year that Seoul Thermal Power Station, built in the 1930s, would be replaced with a new 800-MW two-unit combined cycle power plant—one that will be built […]
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