As part of its strategy to achieve net-zero status by 2050, the Tennessee Valley Authority yesterday issued a request for proposals for supplying up to 5 GW of carbon-free energy that must be operational before 2029.
Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.The agreement, reportedly...
Bruce Power expansion plans get federal funding infusion
The Canadian government has announced up to C$50 million ($36.8 million) in funding for predevelopment work to study the feasibility of building 4,800 megawatts of new generating capacity at...
Type One Energy wants to build a stellarator at retired coal plant
Type One Energy Group announced plans on February 21 to relocate its headquarters from Madison, Wis., to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Bull Run fossil plant in Clinton, Tenn., where...
Radioisotopes target cancer, improve imaging, and have myriad other medical uses
On August 2, 1946, 1 millicurie of the isotope carbon-14 left Oak Ridge National Laboratory, bound for the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.That tiny amount of the...
Act now: Comments sought on hydrogen tax credit
Two weeks remain for public comments on the proposed language in the new federal rules proposed for hydrogen production tax credits. A public hearing on the regulations is scheduled for March...
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Duke Energy cuts jobs, refocuses on clean energy
Duke Energy has confirmed “limited” layoffs across its territories as part of a company reorganization focused on clean energy.In a statement, the company said, “Duke Energy is entering...
Informal survey asks when the next U.S. nuclear plant will come on line
According to an admittedly informal and unscientific survey of people from online “nuclear affinity groups” conducted by Eric Wesoff, the editorial director for clean energy newsroom...
Hydrogen production tax credits may exclude legacy nuclear
New guidelines for federal hydrogen production tax credits may leave legacy nuclear plants out in the cold.The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released proposed...
Canceled nuclear plant site targeted by paragliders
Three people were arrested on January 3 when they paraglided onto the site of a canceled nuclear power plant in Hartsville, Tenn., according to Nashville news station WSMV....
Reactor dome lift caps year at Hinkley Point C
EDF Energy’s new nuclear build megaproject at Hinkley Point C last Friday moved forward—or, more literally, upward then downward—when workers, with a substantial assist from Big Carl,...
