NRC authorizes construction permit for TerraPower Natrium reactor in Wyoming The first U.S. commercial reactor construction approval in nearly a decade also marks the NRC’s first non-light-water ...

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced that it has received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build agreement with Base Electron, an independent power producer backed by Applied Digital, to ...

A number of different HRSG designs are possible, and space limitations prevent a chemistry discussion of these variations. For this article, we will utilize a very common design shown schematically ...

And you thought the cost of a Big Mac was putting a damper on your finances? PJM Interconnection, the largest electrical grid operator in the United States, held its annual power market auction ...

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

With the latest advancement of F, G, H, and JClass combustion turbines, combined-cycle designs are affected when compared to the previous generation of FClass and smaller machines. This article ...

A rendering of Last Energy’s Northwest Texas project. Source: Last Energy. Nuclear microreactor developer Last Energy plans to build 30 microreactors in Haskell County, Texas to serve data center ...

Today Finland has 125 years of nuclear power reactor operating experience and this gives a good basis for construction and licensing of new nuclear power plants (NPPs). Two VVER-440 type plants are ...

Image art by Kevin Clark via ChatGPT-4o. U.S. coal-fired power plants will stay well-stocked through the end of next year, despite a temporary increase in coal consumption for power generation in 2025 ...

At the University of Texas at Austin campus in mid-August, X-energy CEO Clay Sell, Dow Chemical CEO Jim Fitterling and Texas Governor Greg Abbott touted the promise of nuclear energy to a crowd of ...

GE Vernova announced it has completed the sale of a portion of its steam power business to EDF. The transaction includes the manufacturing of conventional island equipment for new nuclear power plants ...

Reliability risk across North America is rising over the next decade as electricity demand growth, driven largely by new data centers, outpaces the pace of new generation, transmission and fuel ...