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 ...

Duke Energy's existing W.S. Lee Station in Anderson County, South Carolina. Source: Duke Energy. Duke Energy plans to file an application with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSCSC) ...

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 ...

Coal Creek Station in North Dakota. Source: Lignite Energy Council. In yet another development that would disorient a time traveler from three years ago, it looks like North Dakota’s largest ...

Source: Medium. Creative Commons license. Oracle is designing a gigawatt-scale data center that will be powered by a trio of small modular reactors (SMRs), company Chairman and Chief Technology ...

Oklo, a fission power and nuclear fuel recycling company, announced it has received letters of intent (LOIs) and is partnering with two major data center providers to deliver up to 750 megawatts (MW) ...

A natural gas-fired plant to be located behind-the-meter of an Ohio data center campus was approved for construction this week. The 200-megawatt (MW) Socrates South Power Generation Project is to be ...

Talen Energy is going to keep two of its fossil-fired power plants online a littler longer than expected. Talen announced that it, PJM Interconnection, and a “broad coalition” of the Maryland Public ...

Los Angeles has fully exited coal, city officials announced this week. The Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah, the last remaining source of coal-fired electricity serving the nation’s ...

When combined cycle plants are run at low loads, problems often arise with overspray from attemperators using traditional mechanical atomization. To address this issue, power plants can upgrade to ...

Hope Creek Generating Station. Image source U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is exploring the potential for direct power sales to data centers from its ...

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 ...