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More than two weeks after the restart was suspended, Tokyo Electric Power Co. will resume operations for a second time on Feb. 9 at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture.
That's because Google is working with NextEra Energy to reopen the nuclear plant by 2029 to meet surging data center power demand, an electricity draw that's contributing to higher utility rates. Duane Arnold is also located in a part of the country prone to severe windstorms.
The world's largest nuclear power plant is shutting down a reactor due to a glitch. The No. 6 reactor at Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant restarted Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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How many nuclear power plants are really operating in the US right now?
The United States runs the largest nuclear power fleet on the planet, but even basic questions about how many plants are actually operating can produce different answers. Some counts focus on plant sites,
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Reuters: Russia rejects handing control of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to US
Russia has rejected a US proposal to transfer full control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) as part of a potential peace agreement. Source: Reuters Details: The US plan envisaged Washington taking over management of the plant,
It’s worth looking at high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, specifically. This fuel is enriched to higher concentrations of fissile uranium than conventional nuclear fuel, with a proportion of the isotope U-235 that falls between 5% and 20%. (In conventional fuel, it’s below 5%.)
VC Summer Nuclear Plant has not been producing power since a snow storm hit South Carolina and a steam line leaked. It is unclear when service will resume.
Founded by Bill Gates, TerraPower is one of the nuclear industry’s leading startups. But the fiery history of its cooling technology is raising alarms.
Czech nuclear power operator ČEZ has set out its modernisation and investment plans for 2026 at the Dukovany and Temelin nuclear power plants. ;
The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, which it also operates in north-central Japan.