Russia
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Waste to Energy
Waste-to-Energy Strategies Are Not Dead
Few waste-to-energy (WTE) plants have been completed in the U.S. since the mid 1990s, but the story is different around the world, where WTE technology is seen as a suitable solution to municipal solid waste
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News
POWER Digest [May 2020]
OPG Reaches First Criticality at Darlington 2, Delays Work at Unit 3. Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) Darlington Unit 2 reactor, the first of four reactors the company is overhauling at the Darlington
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Gas
GE Completes Major Inspection on SGT-800* to Modernize Bashkir Generation LLC’s Ufa TPP2 Plant to Help Cope with Russian Winters
GE’s modernization of Bashkir Generation Company LLC’s TTP-2 Plant was completed on time, successfully and safely The project is expected to extend the maintenance interval by 25% at the TPP-2 plant—equivalent to approximately seven months GE’s localized support through its GE Energy Technology Center in Kaluga, including a SGT-800* spare parts warehouse, ensures availability of […]
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Nuclear
Nuclear Fuel Working Group Outlines How U.S. Could Regain Global Leadership
The U.S. will attempt to regain its international standing as a world leader in nuclear energy through a three-pronged strategy that will essentially seek to strengthen the full domestic nuclear fuel cycle, possibly deny imports of nuclear fuel fabricated in Russia or China, and promote advanced reactor technologies. The strategy is outlined in the White […]
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News
POWER Digest [February 2020]
Indonesia Readying to Build 145-MW Floating Solar Plant. Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB), a subsidiary of Indonesian state electricity company PT PLN, is planning to begin construction of the $129 million Cirata
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Nuclear
MOX Nuclear Fuel Loaded in Russian Reactor, More to Come
Power plant engineers have loaded 18 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies in Unit 4 at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Distinct from traditional nuclear fuel with enriched uranium, MOX fuel pellets are based on the mix of nuclear fuel cycle derivatives, such as plutonium oxide bred in commercial reactors and uranium oxide […]
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Nuclear
Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant
Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a GE-led joint venture with Hitachi Ltd. that supplies boiling water reactor fuel and fuel-related services around the world, said lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois. “We continue to work with our customers […]
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Press Releases
Rosatom subsidiary awards contract for construction of BREST-OD-300 fast reactor facility and power unit
Siberian Chemical Plant (a subsidiary of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom in Seversk, Tomsk region, West Siberia) has signed the contract with Concern Titan-2 engineering company for construction and installation works within the project of BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor facility. The total contract value is 26.3 billion rubles. The contractor will accomplish construction of […]
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News
Russia Offers to Expand Nuclear Power in Africa
South Africa is the only country on the African continent with nuclear power generation, but Russia is working to make nuclear power a reality for more African nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke
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Infographics
THE BIG PICTURE: The Diffusion of Nuclear Technology
A historical analysis of nuclear power technology by researchers from the German Institute for Economic Research suggests that none of the 674 reactors developed globally since 1945 were developed based on “economic grounds”—as private investments in the context of a market-based competitive system. Until the 1950s, only four major countries dominated nuclear technology by establishing independent […]