WILMINGTON, North Carolina—December 3, 2020—Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) today announced that lead test assemblies of its Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) solutions have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for examination after commercial operation. The unfueled IronClad lead test rods and fueled ARMOR lead test rods, the first to be installed in a commercial reactor, successfully completed a 24-month fuel cycle at the Edwin I.
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- GE’s LM2500XPRESS power plant, built using GE’s proven LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbine technology, is 95% factory assembled into simplified modules for fast and easy site installation
- Available in both simple and combined cycle configurations, for 50 and 60 Hertz customers, LM2500XPRESS provides a “plug and play” modularity and reliable energy supply, ideal to bring stability to the grid, when needed
- RWE will implement 11 units of GE’s breakthrough LM2500XPRESS technology in Biblis to deliver 300 megawatts (MW) of reliable reserve
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- Powered by GE’s most advanced 6F gas turbine technology, the new 90 MW block will generate power and steam to increase the efficiency of one the largest petrochemical complexes in Argentina and Latin America
- New CHP capacity complements the existing 128 MW La Plata Cogeneration I plant, which uses GE 9E gas turbine technology
- Delivering amidst challenges: with COVID-19 safety measures in place, GE ensured the safe commissioning of the plant on an expedited schedule
- The project helps YPF Luz improve the su
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina—December 1, 2020—GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Final Safety Evaluation Report for the first of several licensing topical reports (LTRs) that have been submitted for the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR). The LTR, which was submitted to the NRC in December 2019, forms the basis for the dramatic simplification of the BWRX-300.
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- Developing Refractory Alloy Innovations for Superior Efficiency (RAISE) – an ultra-high temperature material system that would enable gas turbine blades to operate at 1,700 °C (3,092°F)
- Will help drive efforts to push turbine efficiency beyond 65% and accelerate decarbonization of the energy sector
- $1.6 million project to be driven by world-class, multi-disciplinary team with decades of experience and a dedicated High Bay lab facility in alloy, coating and process development <
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- GE’s Power Conversion business has been awarded a $40 million contract from DSEC for two National Security Multi-Mission Vessels’ power and propulsion systems.
- The ships are being developed for the US Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD) to provide cadets with at-sea training on operational vessels, but also can be available for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.
- The new ships will have an all-electric plant, enabling students to be trained on some of the latest technology being used in the commercial m
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- Naepo District Heating Plant, powered by GE’s highly efficient and advanced 7HA.02 gas turbine technology, will provide approximately 500 megawatts (MW) to the national grid, and steam for district heating for over 100,000 citizens of Naepo City
- The new gas turbine-based district heating plant will replace a previously planned Solid Refuse Fuel boiler plant
- Project will build on GE’s extensive experience applying HA gas turbine technology to district heating projects in South Korea at GS Power’s Anyang plant
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- GE brings additional repair services to PT GE Nusantara Services by building turbine blade capability within the plant and increasing overall center capacity
- Transformation of the site took less than one year with stringent COVID safety measures in place
- The adoption of lean principles allowed GE to reduce gas turbine component repair cycle time by 30 percent
- Expansion led to an increase of approximately 50 positions and first repaired set of B- and E- components being shipped from the Center in 2020
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- GE will provide three 9HA.02 heavy duty gas turbines for the Dongguan Ningzhou power plant, operated by the Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd.
- Dongguan Ningzhou power plant will add 2,400 MW, the equivalent electricity needed to power more than four million homes in China, becoming one of the largest gas power plants in China’s mainland
- The project is the first H-class gas turbine planned by local government after policy reform in the Greater Bay Area, focused on the coal-to-gas energy transition