Nuclear power

06 Apr 23

Using Nuclear Energy to Produce Synthetic Fuels

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

While renewable energy is helping to decarbonize the power sector, transport today still relies heavily on fossil fuels. More than a third of the world’s carbon-dioxide emissions in 2021 came from transporting people and cargo, according to the International Energy Agency. Synthetic fuels—drop-in replacements for liquid fuels such as gasoline…

16 Mar 23

Small Modular Reactors: Capital Funding, Financing & Economic Viability

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

New nuclear looks different, which requires new types of financing. New investment and partnerships are seemingly occurring every day across the industry, including SK Group’s $250million investment into Terrapower, and X-energy’s partnership with Dow Chemical.What can be done to encourage financial investment and improve the economic viability and the ROI…

01 Mar 23

Ukraine’s Clashing Atomic Fuel Dilemmas

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last Friday Ukrainian transmission grid operator Ukrenergo marked one year of war with a hopeful milestone—two straight weeks without rolling blackouts. For sure, some cities at the front suffered outages. But the big picture was clear: Power engineers had delivered the grid through the worst of the winter and Russia’s…

23 Feb 23

Small Modular Reactors: Supply Chain Capacity & Resource Planning

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Overcome supply chain delivery challenges including fuel sourcing, analyze energy security impacts on SMRs and advanced reactor supply chains, and understand how to resolve global disruptions to shipping, parts shortages, and transportation delays.Trends suggest SMR developers will have to compete fiercely both with other projects in nuclear and with other…

27 Jan 21

Hinkley Point C faces further delays as cost rises again

Engineering & Management

The French energy giant said that while “significant progress” was made on the Somerset site last year, the project was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has forced a number of changes on the Hinkley site, including reducing the number of workers to enable social distancing and concentrating on the…

Using Nuclear Energy to Produce Synthetic Fuels

Small Modular Reactors: Capital Funding, Financing & Economic Viability

Ukraine’s Clashing Atomic Fuel Dilemmas

Small Modular Reactors: Supply Chain Capacity & Resource Planning

Hinkley Point C faces further delays as cost rises again

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