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GEH promotes BWRX-300 design in Czech Republic
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Czech utility ČEZ have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on examining the economic and technical feasibility of potentially constructing a BWRX-300 in the Czech Republic. ČEZ operates two nuclear power plants which generate about one-third of the country’s electricity. The Czech government plans substituting aging coal plants with new nuclear build and renewables in the near future.
read more... 06/02/2020
World's 1st floating nuclear power plant connects to grid
The world's first floating nuclear power plant (NPP), Akademik Lomonosov, was grid-connected to provide electricity for the first time in the remote Chaun-Bilibino network in the coastal gold-mining town of Pevek, in Russia's Far East, Russian State Atomic Corporation Rosatom announced on Thursday.
read more... 20/12/2019
Poland opens first coal mine in 25 years
The Bzie-Debina mine was built by Polish mining company JSW, the biggest producer of coking coal in the EU.
read more... 26/09/2019
Russian thermal coal production to grow to 550 million mt per year by 2035: Putin
Russian thermal coal production is set to grow over 100 million mt by 2035, as the country looks to invest in new coal infrastructure and focus increasingly on the growing Asia-Pacific region, President Vladimir Putin said in a meeting with heads of coal mining regions last week.
read more... 28/08/2019
Serbia, Russia to launch joint LNG projects
The Ministry of Mining and Energy of Serbia and Russian state gas company Gazprom have signed an agreement on the construction of natural gas (LNG) stations in Serbia.
read more... 11/06/2019