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2022, November, 1, 16:55:00
U.S., POLAND NUCLEAR RELATIONSHIP $40 BLN
In July last year, Westinghouse announced the launch of front-end engineering and design work - based on AP1000 technology - under a grant from the US Trade and Development Agency to progress the nuclear energy programme in Poland.
2022, November, 1, 16:45:00
U.S., CANADA'S NUCLEAR FOR ROMANIA
Romania has ongoing programmes to upgrade its existing Candu reactors at Cernavoda NPP, as well as to construct two new units and to develop small modular reactors (SMRs).
2022, November, 1, 16:30:00
U.S. CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENT $39 MLN
The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements.
2022, October, 31, 11:55:00
U.S. REVOLUTIONARY ENERGY DEMAND
Just eliminating fossil fuel alone is a tall order -- 22 percent of the current generating mix is coal and 38 percent is natural gas. Half of the generation will, in theory, go offline while demand for electricity soars.
2022, October, 31, 11:50:00
U.S., INDIA CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVE
The US and India have continually increased their trade in other sectors, so this has made partnering on energy very easy. Additionally, both countries are facing difficulties with keeping energy prices low, so they have had to look for new initiatives.
2022, October, 31, 11:40:00
NUCLEAR SMR FOR GHANA
As a first step toward enhancing cooperation under WECAN, the USA and Japan announced a partnership with Ghana to support Ghana's ambition of being a first mover in SMR deployment in Africa and establishing itself as an advanced nuclear technology hub.
2022, October, 31, 11:35:00
U.S. RIGS DOWN 3 TO 768
U.S. Rig Count is down 3 from last week to 768, Canada Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 212.
2022, October, 28, 11:55:00
EUROPEAN GAS DEFICIT
While US fuel now makes up 40% of Europe’s liquefied natural gas imports, it will only offset a fraction of the deficit from Russia next summer,
2022, October, 28, 11:50:00
EUROPEAN GAS SHORTAGE
Lower Russian supplies sent European gas prices to all-time highs in late August though prices have come down sharply as storage sites across the EU were filled to close to capacity.
2022, October, 28, 11:40:00
NORTH AMERICAN MARINE SMR
NuScale and Prodigy have been collaborating since 2018 under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at bringing a competitive North American SMR marine facility to market – a product that can generate safe, affordable, and reliable electricity at grid-scale at any coastal location worldwide.
2022, October, 28, 11:35:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES UP BY 2.6 MB TO 439.9 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 2.6 million barrels to 439.9 million barrels.
2022, October, 26, 10:20:00
CANADA'S SMR NUCLEAR INVESTMENTS
The Darlington New Nuclear Project will be a 300 MWe small modular reactor (SMR), which is to be built next to OPG's existing Darlington nuclear power plant in Clarington, Ontario.
2022, October, 26, 10:15:00
U.S. FUSION INNOVATIONS
In March 2021, scientists at DIII-D released a new concept for a compact fusion reactor design they said could help define the technology necessary for commercial fusion power.
2022, October, 24, 11:40:00
U.S. RIGS UP 2 TO 771
U.S. Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 771, Canada Rig Count is down 6 from last week to 210.
2022, October, 21, 11:05:00
U.S., S.KOREAN NUCLEAR SMR
The new agreement builds on the teaming agreement signed in November 2021 under which Hyundai E&C will perform the detailed design of the balance of plant and prepare the full plant construction specification for the SMR-160, which Holtec has been developing since 2010.