Your Source for Energy Jobs & Industry News
Power management company Eaton said it is helping address the critical shortage of transformers, along with record demand for its solutions from utility, large commercial, industrial and data center customers, […]
The post Eaton Increasing Transformer Manufacturing with South Carolina Investment appeared first on POWER Magazine.
The Inflation Reduction Act was designed to enhance domestic manufacturing and secure domestic supply chains. The act, signed by President Biden in 2022, was sponsored by Sens. Chuck Shumer (D-NY) […]
The post Impact of the IRA on U.S. Renewable Energy Manufacturing and Supply Chains appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. has opened a pilot fuel manufacturing facility that will produce TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) coated fuel particles and the company’s proprietary fuel for use in its high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR).
The Pilot Fuel Manufacturing (PFM) facility, located at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is one of the first U.S. private sector manufacturing facilities dedicated to developing advanced reactor fuel. It is now ready to process feedstock uranium powder into TRISO fuel particles and subsequently produce Ultra Safe Nuclear’s patented fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel in multiple kilogram quantities, the company said on Aug. 18 as it declared the facility officially open.
The company plans to produce, test, and qualify the fuel at the facility for use in its Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) Energy System, which is a fourth-generation 5-MWe (15-MWth) HTGR, and other advanced terrestrial and space energy systems that it is also developing. Pivotally, the PFM will allow the company to test equipment and processes that could be scaled into larger fuel manufacturing facilities.…
Program helps job seekers with ABCs of manufacturing Youngstown Vindicator
“job” – Google News…
General Electric’s (GE’s) power unit has said it will end manufacturing operations at its plant in Salem, Virginia, next year, with more than 260 workers losing their jobs, according to union officials. Officials noted that 42% of the affected workers are eligible for retirement.
The plan announced June 8 said the Salem plant, which opened in 1955, would continue as an engineering center staffed by some 200 employees. GE is among the largest employers in the Salem region, and the plant at one time had about 3,500 workers.
The company said the Salem manufacturing work would move to other GE locations or be handled by supplier partners. GE has struggled along with other turbine manufacturers over the past year as global demand for the units has fallen. CEO John Flannery in May told a Florida electrical products conference that the company is trying to stem the tide of business losses, but said he is “being deliberate” with moves to reorganize GE even as the company’s stock price has been hammered in the past year.…