2024 November 11 « nuclear-news

Clean Energy Community Mobilizes as Trump Rises, Supporters Embrace Project 2025

Energy Mix 8th Nov 2024, Primary Author: Mitchell Beer

As leaders, citizens, and climate and energy practitioners around the
world absorb the prospect of a second Donald Trump term in the White House,
two overlapping realities are beginning to emerge.

The next U.S. government will be determined to reverse and defeat efforts to get climate change under control and speed up the shift to a clean energy economy. And the
response is already taking shape—from industries and technologies that
are far more advanced and entrenched than they were eight years ago, and
from an international community that is determined to keep the transition
going, with or without the next Trump administration at the table.

How those two forces collide will largely determine how badly the U.S. falls
short of its 2030 emission reduction target under the Paris climate
agreement, and how much is left of the already-diminished prospect of
meeting the global goal of holding average global warming to 1.5°C…………. https://www.theenergymix.com/clean-energy-community-mobilizes-as-trump-rises-supporters-embrace-project-2025/

November 11, 2024 Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY | Leave a comment

Micro-reactor developer optimistic about connecting South Wales project by 2027

08 Nov, 2024 By Tom Pashby

The CEO of a micro nuclear reactor developer aiming to build in Wales this
decade has told NCE he is confident that grid connection reforms will help
keep his company’s ambitious plans on schedule.

Last Energy is a developer of micro-reactors, which fall within the overall category of
small modular reactors (SMRs). The firm is hoping to build and commission
four 20MW reactors in South Wales by 2027.

Details of its Prosiect Egni Glan Llynfi project in Bridgend County were released last month and raised eyebrows. Last Energy calls it, in English, the Llynfi Clean Energy Project
and is proposed on the site of the former coal-fired Llynfi Power Station
which was in operation from 1951 to 1977.

The SMR designs in Great British
Nuclear’s competition are subject to a generic design assessment (GDA) by
regulators of the UK nuclear sector. This allows the regulators to assess
the safety, security, safeguards and environmental aspects of new reactor
designs before site-specific proposals are brought forward.

Jenner said Last Energy is not going through the generic design assessment approach. He
said the ONR “stated that that’s not absolutely essential”. “It’s
one route you can take. We are going straight to the site licensing
route,” he said. “We are linking our project and our design straight to
our project in this case, is Llynfi in South Wales, so you go through the
same rigor, but it’s linked to a site.

” Even with all the benefits for
rapid deployment, the 2027 commission date seems ambitious. Jenner said
Last Energy had not commenced any works at the site yet. “When we expect
to is something that we are still working through the timeline on in our
discussions with the ONR (Office for Nuclear Regulation),” he said.

New Civil Engineer 8th Nov 2024,
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/interview-micro-reactor-developer-optimistic-about-connecting-south-wales-project-by-2027-08-11-2024/

November 11, 2024 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, UK | Leave a comment