Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) has entered an agreement with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy ( GEH ) to support its planning and preliminary licensing for the potential deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor ( SMR ) at the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge in Tennessee . Under the agreement , GEH will also provide additional information needed as TVA continues to analyse the viability of SMRs in the Tennessee Valley , subject to future approval by its board of directors . TVA said the agreement with GEH follows a collaboration agreement with Ontario Power Generation ( OPG ) in April this year to develop advanced nuclear technology , including SMRs , in both Canada and the USA . The agreement allows the companies to coordinate their explorations into the design , licensing

, construction , and operation of SMRs . OPG last year selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy ’ s BWRX-300 SMR for deployment at Darlington , where it says Canada ’ s first commercial , grid-scale , SMR could be completed as soon as 2028 . TVA has not yet specified technology for construction at Clinch River , but the company has been in discussions with GE Hitachi concerning the BWRX-300 , with Lyash in February saying he believed light-water reactor designs which are closely related to TVA ’ s existing large units are closer to commercial deployment within the next decade . TVA has also partnered with Kairos Power in its project to deploy the Hermes low-power demonstration reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park in Oak Ridge .

ABL Group has been awarded a contract to provide marine warranty survey services ( MWS ) for the marine transportation of components for a hydrogenated vegetable oil ( HVO ) plant , which will be part of one of Europe ’ s biggest biofuels facilities , in Rotterdam , Netherlands . The project , operated and led by Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam , envisages the construction of a biofuels plant with a capacity to produce enough HVO – known as a renewable diesel – to avoid 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year , the equivalent of taking more than 1 million European cars off the roads . Energy and marine consultancy ABL ’ s scope of work is to provide MWS for

all marine transportation operations from Nantong , China to Rotterdam , Netherlands relating to critical project components for the HVO plant . The biofuels plant is part of Shell ’ s larger Red II Green project , which also envisages the construction the largest and Europe ’ s largest commercial green hydrogen production facilities , which will , in turn , be used to decarbonise the refinery process at the HVO plant . ABL ’ s operations in London , UK , is the contract party . The London office will be supported by ABL ’ s offices in China and the Netherlands , to carry out on-site attendances locally as part of the marine warranty survey scope of work .