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Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates. – Jeff Navin	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
We expect to (hit) the halfway mark this year. Right now we are about 1,350 megawatts. – Eric Francia	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, we had about 20,000 megawatts of both wind and solar installed, at that point, Narendra Modi set a target of getting, by the end of 2022, almost 175,000 megawatts of wind and solar installed... and that is actually quite remarkable. – Sumant Sinha	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A decade ago, there were zero major solar power projects on public lands. Today, the Bureau of Land Management has approved 11,000 megawatts of renewable wind, solar, and geothermal projects?, but to make a real dent in the problem, we're going to need a whole lot more. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It would not surprise me to see solar get into the thousands of megawatts. – Bill Johnson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The minister of public enterprises has reported that they were able to revive and restore the power line from Cahora Bassa. So we will have an additional 900 megawatts. – Cyril Ramaphosa	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Within the next few years, on the basis of assessment of the experts, the country will have 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy, when the nuclear issue started, some of our well-known people were saying why do we need a nuclear program ? Just put it aside. Of course, this was wrong. The nuclear issue is needed by the country. – Ayatollah Khamenei	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This new technology could provide kilowatts and can eventually be evolved to provide hundreds of kilowatts, or even megawatts of power, we call it the Kilopower project because it gives us a near-term option to provide kilowatts for missions that previously were constrained to use less. But first things first, and our test program is the way to get started. – Lee Mason of NASA	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have spoken to Egyptian and foreign companies working in the local market which have projects that need capital. We will provide them with the capital and help them to manage, we are initially targeting projects of around 500 megawatts of solar and wind energy in Egypt. – Bakr Abdel-Wahab	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The line has supplied the peninsula with 250 megawatts. Due to the lack of power supply, Sevastopol is receiving 150 megawatts instead of 195 megawatts. – Kirill Moskalenko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our plan is to install 75 megawatts (MW) of battery storage, most of which is already in place. – Del Fante	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The design we have at the moment and the proposition we have at the moment is to put a tidal fence, which is a chain of these turbines in the Bristol Channel, and if we can build up to say ten kilometers worth, which is a very extended fence, you're looking at power outputs of five or six hundred megawatts and just to visualize that that's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel. – Peter Dixon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The aim is to generate the maximum amount of megawatts, but that won't address the access issue, which is in rural areas. – Ben Garside	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am going to be extremely aggressive here in my investments. We have firepower right now of 500 million dollars. Today we signed $100 million out of this 500, we are the first and the only Egyptian company till now to sign the solar power energy 50 megawatts today. – Top Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The tax exemptions and other initiatives to boost clean energy are a welcome move by the government, we hope the private sector would import around 800 megawatts of solar panels in 2015 to meet the demand. – Nauman Khan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The issue on imports of power is resolved. We have had talks with Moldova, Belarus and Russia and agreements for imports of 1,500 megawatts have been signed, all these will allow us to avoid any outages. – Volodymyr Demchyshyn	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In total we will add 16,000 MW of electricity through coal, wind, solar and hydel plants in the next seven years and reduce power shortage by 4,000 to 7,000 megawatts, This will take care of a growing demand for power by a growing economy. – Khawaja Asif	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

– Jeff Navin

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

We expect to (hit) the halfway mark this year. Right now we are about 1,350 megawatts.

– Eric Francia

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, we had about 20,000 megawatts of both wind and solar installed, at that point, Narendra Modi set a target of getting, by the end of 2022, almost 175,000 megawatts of wind and solar installed... and that is actually quite remarkable.

– Sumant Sinha

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A decade ago, there were zero major solar power projects on public lands. Today, the Bureau of Land Management has approved 11,000 megawatts of renewable wind, solar, and geothermal projects?, but to make a real dent in the problem, we're going to need a whole lot more.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It would not surprise me to see solar get into the thousands of megawatts.

– Bill Johnson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The minister of public enterprises has reported that they were able to revive and restore the power line from Cahora Bassa. So we will have an additional 900 megawatts.

– Cyril Ramaphosa

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Within the next few years, on the basis of assessment of the experts, the country will have 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy, when the nuclear issue started, some of our well-known people were saying why do we need a nuclear program ? Just put it aside. Of course, this was wrong. The nuclear issue is needed by the country.

– Ayatollah Khamenei

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This new technology could provide kilowatts and can eventually be evolved to provide hundreds of kilowatts, or even megawatts of power, we call it the Kilopower project because it gives us a near-term option to provide kilowatts for missions that previously were constrained to use less. But first things first, and our test program is the way to get started.

– Lee Mason of NASA

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have spoken to Egyptian and foreign companies working in the local market which have projects that need capital. We will provide them with the capital and help them to manage, we are initially targeting projects of around 500 megawatts of solar and wind energy in Egypt.

– Bakr Abdel-Wahab

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The line has supplied the peninsula with 250 megawatts. Due to the lack of power supply, Sevastopol is receiving 150 megawatts instead of 195 megawatts.

– Kirill Moskalenko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our plan is to install 75 megawatts (MW) of battery storage, most of which is already in place.

– Del Fante

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The design we have at the moment and the proposition we have at the moment is to put a tidal fence, which is a chain of these turbines in the Bristol Channel, and if we can build up to say ten kilometers worth, which is a very extended fence, you're looking at power outputs of five or six hundred megawatts and just to visualize that that's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel.

– Peter Dixon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The aim is to generate the maximum amount of megawatts, but that won't address the access issue, which is in rural areas.

– Ben Garside

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am going to be extremely aggressive here in my investments. We have firepower right now of 500 million dollars. Today we signed $100 million out of this 500, we are the first and the only Egyptian company till now to sign the solar power energy 50 megawatts today.

– Top Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The tax exemptions and other initiatives to boost clean energy are a welcome move by the government, we hope the private sector would import around 800 megawatts of solar panels in 2015 to meet the demand.

– Nauman Khan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The issue on imports of power is resolved. We have had talks with Moldova, Belarus and Russia and agreements for imports of 1,500 megawatts have been signed, all these will allow us to avoid any outages.

– Volodymyr Demchyshyn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In total we will add 16,000 MW of electricity through coal, wind, solar and hydel plants in the next seven years and reduce power shortage by 4,000 to 7,000 megawatts, This will take care of a growing demand for power by a growing economy.

– Khawaja Asif

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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