Framatome of France and Bruce Power of Canada have been awarded a contract to provide system-wide decontamination services for units 3 and 4 of the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant as part of the Plant's Major Parts Replacement (MCR) program. Using a unique chemical decontaminating technology developed globally, Famatone will localize this technology for use by...
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Corporation (KHNP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Station (KNPP), an arm of the government's Samruk-Kazyna State Welfare Fund, to cooperate on the introduction of nuclear power in Kazakhstan. The MOU was signed on June 28 during a visit to Seoul by a Kazakh delegation led...
As temperatures soared across Japan and the government pleaded with the public and businesses to limit their energy consumption, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said nuclear power plants that had not been used since the 2011 Fukushima disaster would be reactivated. Speaking at the GROUP of Seven summit on Tuesday, Mr. Kishida said the four nuclear...
On 24 June 2022, Oano signed a major contract worth 250 million euros with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) for the transport and processing of 731 spent fuel assemblies in France from the Puxian Reactor in Japan. The contract was awarded to authorize and develop these transportation and processing operations following the exchange of...
Leaders of the group of Seven (G7) large industrialised countries should encourage the extension of the operating lives of existing nuclear reactors and support the restart of others to help achieve the nuclear industry's goals of low carbon and secure energy supplies. In a joint message ahead of the Leaders' summit in Germany on June...
Swift Solar is a Silicon Valley startup that aims to revolutionize Solar technology by making Solar panels that are very lightweight, economical and efficient. Instead of using wafer-based solar panel technology, they are developing thin-film based solar technology using a new type of semiconductor called perovskite, which will speed up the efficiency game in the...
With the rapid development of the surface photovoltaic industry, its application fields are becoming more and more extensive. Compared with the surface photovoltaic power station, the site environment of the surface photovoltaic power station is usually characterized by high humidity, salt fog, gusts and waves. Therefore, the surface photovoltaic power station has put forward higher...
A consortium led by ACWA Power (with local contractor Hassan Allam Holding) recently signed a 1.1GW onshore wind project with the Egyptian government. The project is located in the Gulf of Suez and Gabal El Zeit region with an investment of about us $1.5 billion. The project is one of the largest onshore wind farms...
According to the latest statistics from the International Energy Agency, 296GW of new renewable energy capacity will be installed globally in 2021, up 6% from last year. By type of energy, new wind capacity fell 17 percent in 2021, but that was offset by growth in solar pv and hydropower installations. The EU is the...
According to the research institute, 3,064GW of installed renewable energy capacity will be deployed globally by 2021, highlighting the urgent need for energy storage systems to balance intermittent generation from renewable sources. In 2021, the global energy storage market maintains high growth. The installed capacity of new energy storage systems was 29.6GWh, up 72.4% year...