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If the plants are equipped with ultra super critical boilers, the efficiency can be raised to 50 per cent, he said.

Of special significance are the awards of a major upgrade to the Kozloduy nuclear power plant simulator in Bulgaria, the next phase of simulator development for the first-of-a-kind ultra super critical coal fired power plant in Korea, and an award from the Washington Savannah River Company to develop a simulator for processes associated with the vitrification of high level radioactive waste products.

Big Stone II plans to use super critical pulverized coal technology, but the commission asked the utilities to study ultra super critical pulverized coal technology, which has slightly higher efficiency potential but uses higher pressures and temperatures.

Enel is implementing a cooperation agreement with China to promote clean coal technologies with specific reference to ultra super critical power plants as well as cutting edge CO2 capture and sequestration techniques.