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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

Baua Electric

Once it comes online, the Natrium demonstration plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, will be a fully functioning commercial power plant. It’s being constructed near the retiring coal-fired Naughton power plant and is the world’s only coal-to-nuclear project under development. Get started here.

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Natrium reactor demonstration project slated for Wyoming

Green Car Congress

TerraPower and PacifiCorp announced efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming. This project is an exciting economic opportunity for Wyoming. The companies are evaluating several potential locations in the state.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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DKRW Advanced Fuels secures EPC contract with Sinopec Engineering for Medicine Bow coal-to-liquids project in Wyoming

Green Car Congress

Using bituminous coal from southern Wyoming, the Medicine Bow facility will produce 11,600 barrels per day of very low sulfur gasoline using GE gasification technology and methanol?to?gasoline ton Carbon Basin coal reserve owned by Arch Coal, which is also an equity investor in the project. gasoline (MTG) technologies.

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NETL to award $13M to GTI and partners to advance carbon capture technology

Green Car Congress

GTI and partners, The Ohio State University, Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC), and Trimeric Corporation (Trimeric), have been selected for award on a project to advance Ohio State’s transformational membrane technology to provide step-out reductions in CO 2 capture cost and energy penalties.

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DOE selects 10 projects to enhance research into recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust.

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DKRW Advanced Fuels signs major off-take contract for 100% of coal-derived gasoline from Medicine Bow project

Green Car Congress

Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The contract is one of the first major commercial agreements in the US for the sale of liquid transport fuels made from coal. The Medicine Bow project will use Carbon Basin coal optioned from DKRW partner (and coal mine operator) Arch Coal to produce refined hydrocarbon liquid products.

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