After retirement, wind turbine components are typically recycled or placed in a landfill. The materials making up turbine blades are more difficult to recycle, posing a problem for sustainable ...

With legislative momentum around clean power generation and net-zero emissions policies rapidly building, the U.S. is seeing rapid increases in installed wind and solar capacity each year. At the same ...

When the Zion Nuclear Power Station in Illinois closed its doors in 1998, plant owner Commonwealth Edison, now part of Exelon, thought it would take more than two decades to clean up the site. At the ...

This is a web supplement to “Riding Off into the Sunset: Nuclear Decontamination and Decommissioning Update,” appearing in the July 2015 issue of POWER. The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) is ...

Today, before a research reactor is built, the prospective operators are typically required to submit a plan describing how the facility will eventually be decommissioned. Many older reactors were ...

Pontes expects the domes to be fully demolished by the end of 2027 and the entire decommissioning to be complete by 2028. For ...

Predicting the value of PV equipment in two decades’ time is one of the key difficulties of estimating the costs of retiring a solar plant. Image: PV Cycle In the global rush to deploy solar PV as ...

As more countries embrace nuclear power to improve energy security and mitigate climate change, the challenge of successfully decommissioning nuclear facilities is set to grow. A crucial factor in ...

The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) welcomes the publication of the first scientific assessment of the environmental considerations associated with the decommissioning of submarine ...