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North American steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation and US tech giants Google and Microsoft Corporation are to work together across the electricity ecosystem to develop new business models and aggregate their demand for advanced clean electricity technologies, including advanced nuclear.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Google,-Microsoft-and-Nucor-team-up-on-clean-energ
The World Economic Forum in Davos this week heard how nuclear technology is vital in a future clean energy mix, from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and other energy experts speaking at various lunch sessions and meetings.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrossi-promotes-nuclear-at-world-economic-forum-11445906
A recent statement from Fitch Ratings casts doubt on any new nuclear construction in the US in the immediate future. Similar concerns were voiced during discussions at a full committee hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources to Examine Opportunities and Challenges Associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor Commercialisation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrowing-uncertainty-in-us-regarding-economics-of-new-nuclear-11347683
Framatome has been awarded a $1m contract award for phase two of the Digital Twin-based Diagnostics for Nuclear Auxiliary Systems project in North America. Funding is sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) office under the GEMINA (Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear Assets) programme. GEMINA aims to develop digital twin technology for advanced nuclear reactors and transform operations and maintenance systems in the next generation of NPPs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-framatome-for-digital-twin-development-11196045
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft says the company is looking for a Principal Program Manager, Nuclear Technology, who will be responsible for maturing and implementing a global Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and microreactor energy strategy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmicrosoft-seeks-manager-to-develop-smrs-to-power-its-data-centres-11189098
The Nuclear Fuel Report, financing, recruitment, plant life optimisation and the Net Zero Nuclear launch all feature in this round-up of the high-level panel discussions held at the industry's global gathering in London.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 02 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-World-Nuclear-Symposium-2023-special-repor
The hourly carbon-free energy matching agreement will see ComEd power all its offices and metered facilities with locally produced nuclear energy, in a 'first' for an investor-owned US utility. Constellation earlier this year signed a similar hourly energy matching agreement to power a Microsoft data centre.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 16 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Constellation,-ComEd-in-landmark-energy-matching-d
The nuclear industry has the solutions to assist end-users - from the shipping industry to data centres - in reducing their carbon emissions and meeting their decarbonisation goals, panellists at World Nuclear Symposium 2023 said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-industry-ready-to-help-end-users-cut-emiss
TerraPower has awarded contracts to four companies to supply services and equipment for the Natrium reactor demonstration project being developed in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 03 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-selects-suppliers-for-Natrium-demo-proj
TerraPower and Centrus Energy Corp have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to significantly expand their collaboration aimed at establishing commercial-scale, US production capabilities for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to supply TerraPower's first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor and energy storage system.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Agreement-ensures-demo-Natrium-plant-s-HALEU-needs