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US DTE Energy has shutdown unit 2 of the Fermi NPP in Michigan as a precautionary measure after a coolant leak was identified during a routine inspection. Fermi 2 is a 1,198 MWe General Electric boiling water reactor that started operating in 1985. DTE said the issue was promptly addressed by the facility’s maintenance team and that the situation is under control, with no harmful emissions released into the environment.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfermi-2-closed-following-coolant-leak-11105845

New York demonstration project will ‘set stage for potential large-scale deployment’ The Nine Mile Point nucler power station in New York state. Courtesy Constellation Energy. Constellation Energy has begun producing clean hydrogen at a 1-MW demonstration facility at the Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in New York state, providing enough energy to meet the station’s operational hydrogen use and advancing the viability of clean hydrogen in the US.

Constellation said it had begun producing hydrogen at Nine Mile Point, which has two boiling water reactor units, using 1.25 MW of energy per hour to produce 560 kg of clean hydrogen a day.

This is “more than enough to meet the plant’s operational hydrogen use,” Constellation said in a press release.

“It will also help set the stage for possible large-scale deployments at other clean energy centres in Constellation’s fleet that would couple clean hydrogen production with storage and other on-site uses,” it said.

Three other nuclear-powered hydrogen demonstration projects are underway.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 10 March 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/constellation-begins-production-at-nine-mile-point-nuclear-power-station-3-4-2023

The USA's first-of-its-kind 1 MW demonstration scale, nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility has begun operating at Constellation's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in Oswego, New York. The company said the new facility will help demonstrate the potential for hydrogen to power a clean economy.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 09 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nine-Mile-Point-starts-supplying-hydrogen

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France is facing more delays, ITER director general Pietro Barabaschi said in an interview with AFP.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-for-iter-10511382

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has said that hydrogen has the potential to play a significant role in the transition to 100% clean energy. DOE estimates that a single 1,000MWe reactor could produce up to 150,000 tons of hydrogen a year. It can be used across multiple sectors to store and deliver usable energy to power the grid, drive industrial processes, or create energy dense fuels needed for long-haul trucks and airplanes.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-supports-clean-hydrogen-production-at-four-npps-10356513

Midwest can be ‘powerhouse for low-carbon fuel production’ The aim is to produce clean hydrogen from the Davis-Besse nuclear power station. Courtesy Wikipedia. Energy Harbor has joined forces with the University of Toledo and several industrial companies and US Department of Energy national laboratories to launch the Great Lakes Clean Hydrogen coalition, which aims to produce clean hydrogen using nuclear power from the Davis-Besse nuclear power station in Ohio.

The coalition envisions transforming the Midwest into a powerhouse for low-carbon fuel production. It said it will use nuclear power generated by Energy Harbor’s Davis-Besse nuclear station to produce carbon-free hydrogen through electrolysis.

The coalition said the focus on clean hydrogen production through electrolysis avoids the challenge of capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide. Nuclear reactors can produce clean hydrogen by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. Methods are being explored to use nuclear energy to produce hydrogen from water by electrolysis, thermochemical, and hybrid processes.

In October 2021, Energy Harbor and the DOE agreed to develop a hydrogen production demonstration project at Davis-Besse in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Xcel Energy, and Arizona Public Service. The plant was chosen due to its proximity to key hydrogen consumers in the manufacturing and transportation sectors of the market.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 16 September 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-initiative-aims-for-productions-with-nuclear-energy-from-davis-besse-9-4-2022

Company plans to invest $13m in facility over five years US assistant secretary for nuclear energy Kathryn Huff opens the Ultra Safe Nuclear fuel facility in Tennessee. Courztesy Ultra Safe Nuclear. Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, the Seattle-based developer of microreactors, has opened its pilot fuel manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The facility will produce the first fuel for testing and qualification for use in Ultra Safe Nuclear’s advanced micro modular reactor (MMR) energy system, which the company says is “gaining traction” in the US and world markets.

The new facility uses the same production-scale modules for manufacturing Triso coated fuel particles and the company’s patented fully ceramic-microencapsulated (FCM) fuel that will go into Ultra Safe Nuclear’s future commercial fuel manufacturing facility.

The facility is capable of producing FCM for testing and qualification in multiple-kilogramme quantities, Ultra Safe Nuclear said. The facility will also codify and demonstrate the manufacturing modules that will be used in the company’s future commercial fuel manufacturing factory.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/ultra-safe-nuclear-opens-pilot-fuel-manufacturing-plant-for-microreactor-8-2-2022

President says Europe ‘will never have’ enough renewable energy capacity Mr Macron said France’s nuclear plants are a major asset for producing clean hydrogen. Courtesy Elysée Palace. French president Emmanuel Macron said that by 2030 France must be a leader in carbon-free power production with one small modular reactor in operation and nuclear plants used to produce clean hydrogen through electrolysis.

Mr Macron said Europe will never have enough renewable energy capacity to produce sufficient green hydrogen and that France’s nuclear plants are a major asset for producing green hydrogen.

Mr Macron made the comments as he unveiled a five-year investment plan on Tuesday aimed at fostering industrial champions and innovation.

“We must wage the battle of innovation and industrialisation at the same time,” the French president told a gathering of business leaders and young entrepreneurs, unveiling plans to invest €30bn to “re-industrialise” the country.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/macron-announces-plans-for-first-smr-and-green-hydrogen-from-nuclear-plants-by-2030-10-2-2021

"The US uranium mining industry has the personnel and yellowcake processing plants on standby, and is ready to expand into new areas with discoveries that will provide hundreds of years of available uranium resources from a variety of secure sources," says Michael D. Campbell, chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear & REE) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). "So let the drilling and processing begin."

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 25 December 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-uranium-miners-ready-to-support-nuclear-power,

US Department of Energy (DOE) released its Hydrogen Program Plan to provide a strategic framework for the Department’s hydrogen research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Thursday, 19 November 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-releases-hydrogen-plan-8368305

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