International

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/18/2014 Husky Energy and CO2 Solutions have entered into a collaborative agreement to install and operate a pilot unit that will employ CO2 Solution’s carbonic anhydrase enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology at Husky’s Pikes Peak South, Saskatchewan heavy oil site. The technology, which utilizes modified carbonic anhydrase enzymes in place of […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/18/2014 Mantra Energy is on track to have an operational electrochemical reduction pilot plant at a Lafarge cement facility in Richmond, British Colombia, by the end of the year. The plant will utilize Mantra ERC technologies to convert CO2 emissions from the Lafarge cement kiln into salable chemicals such as […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/18/2014 The Canadian province of Saskatchewan will provide $400,000 in funding to the Petroleum Technology Research Centre, supplementing a $1.5 million grant awarded to the center by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy’s Carbon Storage Program. The funding supports the center’s Saskatchewan CO2 Oilfield Use for Storage […]

The following interview with Olav Falk-Pedersen, Business Development Manager at Technology Centre Mongstad, was conducted by ExchangeMonitor Publisher Ed Helminiski. Olav, there are a lot of changes going on at TCM.  What’s the status now and what do you see as the number one priority? Let me first just briefly go over what we have […]

Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/21/2014 Rio Tinto Chief Executive Officer Harry Kenyon-Slaney emphasized the company’s broad support for carbon capture and storage technology in a speech in Sydney, Australia, this week, calling government support for CCS essential and highlighting the key role coal will play in baseload power generation for the foreseeable future. Citing International […]

Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/21/2014 A delegation of senior Chinese officials traveled to Washington this week for bilateral meetings with Obama Administration officials on climate change and other environmental issues, the State Department said this week. The meeting, chaired by U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern and Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua of the […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/24/2014 The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has concluded that reusing its separated plutonium stock as fuel for potential new reactor technology remains the preferred disposition option, according to a position paper released by the NDA this week. The position paper stressed that MOX fuel remains the preferred option for […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced it will form a new internal company responsible for the decommissioning of the Units 5 and 6 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The main objectives of creating the new organization, which will begin operations in April 2014, is to better […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set to launch next month a four-year research effort on waste treatment technologies with Sellafield Limited, the National Nuclear Laboratory, numerous U.K. universities and other partners, the NDA announced this week. The program is expected to cost £8-£9 million ($13.2 million to $14.8 million) […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/2/2014 Sellafield Ltd. and TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC) entered into a co-operation agreement this week in an effort to share knowledge and know-how concerning the decommissioning of two of the most complex cleanup sites in the world. The agreement will work as an ‘operator to […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/25/2014 The Drigg low-level waste repository in the United Kingdom is pushing back against media reports this week that the site is at risk of coastal erosion over the long-term. The London Guardian newspaper obtained internal documents from the U.K.’s Environmental Agency that said that anticipated rising sea levels in […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/18/2014 Japan’s International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID), along with the Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI), is set to host a workshop on April 25 in Tokyo that will discuss the results of the Request For Information that IRID issued last year on innovative approaches to fuel debris removal at […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/18/2014 Westinghouse Electric Company and Canadian Nuclear Partners, a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation, announced an agreement this week that enables the two companies to work more closely together on global nuclear projects. The agreement includes potential joint projects in refurbishment, maintenance and outage services, decommissioning and remediation of existing […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/4/2014 A Canadian review panel responsible for evaluating the safety case for Ontario Power Generation’s proposed Deep Geological Repository has asked the company to resubmit its assessment of potential radionuclide inventories, according to a letter dated March 21. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s Joint Review Panel’s request stemmed from a […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/21/2014 A former Ontario Power Generation employee claims that OPG’s calculations for radionuclide inventories that would go into its proposed Deep Geological Repository, located in Kincardine, Ont., underestimate the waste’s true values. The charge comes from Frank Greening, a retired research scientist for OPG since 1978, in a letter dated […]

URENCO USA Says Significant Inventory On Hand Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 3/21/2014 While the Nuclear Energy Institute is warning lawmakers of the potential impacts of sanctions under consideration on Russian low enriched uranium, URENCO USA says there is significant inventory on hand. The White House is considering including LEU among sanctions against Russia, and this […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 The next step in the Canadian government’s procurement for a contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories is still experiencing delays. There had been speculation that the Request for Response Evaluation, the next step in the process, would be issued last week, but that proved premature […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/14/2014 The International Atomic Energy Agency backed the decommissioning plan that Japan and Tokyo Electric Power Company are using for the cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, according to a report issued by the IAEA to the Japanese government this week. The two-part report, led by a team of […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/14/2014 The United Kingdom’s Office of Nuclear Regulation last week granted permission to Magnox Limited to move ahead with the decommissioning of its Wylfa nuclear power station. Originally, Magnox had planned on beginning decommissioning in 2009, but an opportunity arose to transfer fuel from one reactor to another that extended […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced it will form a new internal company responsible for the decommissioning of the Units 5 and 6 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The main objectives of creating the new organization, which will begin operations in April 2014, is to better […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set to launch next month a four-year research effort on waste treatment technologies with Sellafield Limited, the National Nuclear Laboratory, numerous U.K. universities and other partners, the NDA announced this week. The program is expected to cost £8-£9 million ($13.2 million to $14.8 million) […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 Kurion has entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Nuclear Laboratory to provide bulk vitrification waste treatment at the NNL’s Central Laboratory at the Sellafield site, according to a joint release issued by the NNL and Kurion this week. The joint project will use Kurion’s GeoMelt waste […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced it will form a new internal company responsible for the decommissioning of the Units 5 and 6 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The main objectives of creating the new organization, which will begin operations in April 2014, is to better […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set to launch next month a four-year research effort on waste treatment technologies with Sellafield Limited, the National Nuclear Laboratory, numerous U.K. universities and other partners, the NDA announced this week. The program is expected to cost £8-£9 million ($13.2 million to $14.8 million) […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 Kurion has entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Nuclear Laboratory to provide bulk vitrification waste treatment at the NNL’s Central Laboratory at the Sellafield site, according to a joint release issued by the NNL and Kurion this week. The joint project will use Kurion’s GeoMelt waste […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced it will form a new internal company responsible for the decommissioning of the Units 5 and 6 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The main objectives of creating the new organization, which will begin operations in April 2014, is to better […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set to launch next month a four-year research effort on waste treatment technologies with Sellafield Limited, the National Nuclear Laboratory, numerous U.K. universities and other partners, the NDA announced this week. The program is expected to cost £8-£9 million ($13.2 million to $14.8 million) […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 Kurion has entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Nuclear Laboratory to provide bulk vitrification waste treatment at the NNL’s Central Laboratory at the Sellafield site, according to a joint release issued by the NNL and Kurion this week. The joint project will use Kurion’s GeoMelt waste […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 5/16/2014 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is essential to achieving the 2 degree target necessary to avoid potentially devastating effects of global warming, a report published by the International Energy Agency Monday states. The report, the fourth volume of the agency’s Energy Technology Perspectives, states that barring significant changes the […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/16/2014 With the Department of Energy looking at plutonium disposition alternatives to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, the State Department’s top arms control official said late last week that she didn’t expect Russia to object to any changes to U.S. plans. Lawmakers that have opposed the Obama Administration’s decision to […]