Argentine energy company YPF S.A. has signed a contract with DuPont Clean Technologies for the license and basic engineering of a new IsoTherming® Diesel Hydrotreater Unit. The grassroots hydrotreater will be installed at the YPF Plaza Huincul refinery in Neuquen Province, Argentina.
Typically, nuclear power plants are either operated to their full potential or not operated at all. However, the technical ability of the plants enables them to adapt to the varying demand for power, thereby better accommodating renewable energy sources such as solar power or wind.
The Earth requires fuel to drive its magnetic field, plate tectonics, and volcanoes. Just like a hybrid car relies on two energy sources, the Earth taps two sources of energy to operate its engine – nuclear energy from the heat generated during natural radioactive decay, and primordial energy from assembling the planet.
The Swedish power supply is largely free of carbon emissions. Indeed, it is mainly based on a combination of hydroelectric and nuclear power combined with power exchange with neighbouring Scandinavian countries.
The Swedish power supply is largely free of carbon emissions. Indeed, it is mainly based on a combination of hydroelectric and nuclear power combined with power exchange with neighbouring Scandinavian countries.
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that would reduce both the cost of disposal and the byproducts from the process.
The research, which focussed on the chemical behaviours of intermediate level waste (ILW) at the site, unearthed previously unknown information about the long-term corrosion behaviours of magnesium and uranium.
Kansas State University's nuclear reactor control console in Ward Hall will be getting a much-needed upgrade, funded by a $1.5 million Nuclear Engineering University Partnerships grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Scientists at the University of Sheffield calculate that all of the UK's high level nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessing could be disposed of in just six boreholes 5km deep, fitting within a site no larger than a football pitch.
Almost four years after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, farmland remains contaminated with higher-than-natural levels of radiocesium in some regions of Japan, with cesium-134 and cesium-137 being the most troublesome because of the slow rate at which they decay.