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Fire at Anapara power station in Sonbhadra, India, causes plant shut down

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-29)
  • David Flin

A large fire broke out at the Anpara Thermal Power Station in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India on 28 May.

GNF awarded $250 million contract to fuel Entergy BWRs

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-28)
  • David Flin

Global Nuclear Fuel has announced that it has been awarded a long-term contract by Entergy Nuclear to continue to fuel its boiling water reactors.

Siemens Gamesa to supply 70 wind turbines to three projects in Norway

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-25)
  • David Flin

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) will supply 70 units of its SWT-DD-130 wind turbines to three offshore wind farms in Norway.

Solar power plant to be built at South Korea’s Dangjin coal-fired power plant site

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-24)
  • David Flin

A 9.8 MW solar power plant will be built at the site of Dangjin Eco Power’s coal-fired power plant in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Russia’s floating nuclear plant takes on fuel

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-23)
  • David Flin

The world’s first floating nuclear power plant is taking on fuel and preparing for its inaugural mission in the Russian Arctic.

Dominion Energy invests in GE Hitachi BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-22)
  • David Flin

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has announced that Dominion Energy will provide funding to help progress the BWRX-300, a 300 MW small modular reactor (SMR) design being developed by GEH.

UK’s Drax in carbon capture storage bid

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-21)
  • David Flin

Drax, Britain’s biggest power station, is piloting the first bioenergy carbon capture storage (Beccs) project of its type in Europe.

Framatome signs contract with Dominion Energy to provide fleet-wide steam generator services

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-18)
  • David Flin

Framatome has signed a contract with Dominion Energy of the USA to provide steam generator services to the company’s entire nuclear reactor fleet.

Major power blackout hits half of Pakistan

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-17)
  • David Flin

Half of Pakistan had an eight-hour power outage on 16 May, following a major power breakdown in the country’s transmission system, leaving the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir without power.

Tata Power plans $5 billion investment into renewable capacity

  • 7 years ago (2018-05-16)
  • David Flin

Tata Power, one of India’s largest private power utilities, has said that it plans to invest up to $5 billion into increasing its renewable capacity fourfold.