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Novopskov-Shebelinka Gas Pipeline

The Novopskov-Shebelinka Gas Pipeline (Газопровод Новопсков — Шебелинка) is a 212 km gas pipeline in Ukraine linking Novopskov in Luhansk Oblast to Shebelinka in Kharkiv Oblast.

Novosibirsk-5 power station

Novosibirsk-5 power station (Новосибирская ТЭЦ-5) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Novosibirsk, Russia, commissioned from 1985 and supplying about 60% of the region's electricity.

Novovoronezh nuclear power plant

The Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Нововоронежская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear station near Novovoronezh, Voronezh Oblast, the first in Russia to use VVER reactors, operating since 1964.

Novozym 435

Novozym 435 is a commercial immobilized biocatalyst made by Novozymes, consisting of Candida antarctica lipase B on a polyacrylate resin, used widely in biodiesel synthesis.

NRG Energy

NRG Energy, Inc. is an American integrated energy company based in Houston, Texas, serving about 8 million residential customers under brands including Reliant, Direct Energy, and Vivint.

NSP-Minnesota

NSP-Minnesota, doing business as Xcel Energy, is a Minneapolis-based utility serving about 1.6 million electric and 0.6 million natural gas customers in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

NSP-Wisconsin

NSP-Wisconsin is a wholly owned utility subsidiary of Xcel Energy, headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and renamed in 1924; it serves about 364,000 electricity and natural gas customers.

NSTAR Electric

NSTAR Electric Company is a Massachusetts regulated electric utility doing business as Eversource Energy, serving about 432,000 customers and created by the 1999 merger of BEC Energy and Commonwealth Energy System.

NTPC

NTPC Limited, formerly National Thermal Power Corporation, is an Indian government-owned power company incorporated in 1975; India's largest utility, it generates about 24% of the country's electricity.

NTPC Green Energy Limited

NTPC Green Energy Limited is an Indian renewable energy company, a wholly founded subsidiary of NTPC created in 2022 to develop solar, wind, and green hydrogen projects.

NTPC Korba Super Thermal Power Plant

NTPC Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is a 2,600 MW coal-fired station at Jamnipali in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, operated by NTPC and serving western and central India.

NTPC Limited (एनटीपीसी लिमिटेड)

NTPC Limited (एनटीपीसी लिमिटेड), formerly National Thermal Power Corporation, is India's largest thermal power generator, a government-owned Maharatna company founded in 1975 that also runs hydro, renewable, and nuclear plants.

NTPC Parmanu Urja Nigam Ltd

NTPC Parmanu Urja Nigam Ltd (NPUNL) is a wholly owned nuclear energy subsidiary of NTPC, India's largest power generator, incorporated on 7 January 2025 to carry on nuclear energy business.

NTPC SAIL Power Company Ltd.

NTPC SAIL Power Company Ltd. (NSPCL) is an Indian 50:50 joint venture of NTPC and SAIL operating captive power plants for steel plants at Durgapur, Rourkela, and Bhilai.

NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd.

NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd. (NVVN) is an Indian power trading company and wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Ltd., incorporated in 2002 and based in New Delhi.

NTS Gas Pipeline Network

The NTS gas pipeline network is a Brazilian system of more than 2,000 kilometers of pipelines moving natural gas through Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo.

Nubaria power plant

The Nubaria power plant (محطة كهرباء النوبارية المركبة) is a 2,250 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power station at Koum Hamada in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, owned by MDEPC.

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (原子力安全・保安院, NISA) was the Japanese body regulating nuclear and industrial safety from 2001 until 2012, when the Nuclear Regulation Authority replaced it.

Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents

Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, also called nuclear disasters, are unintended events releasing ionizing radiation, rated by the IAEA's INES scale from incidents to Level 7 accidents.

Nuclear criticality safety

Nuclear criticality safety is the prevention of unintended, self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions in fissionable material handled outside reactors, kept impossible by controlling parameters like mass, geometry, and moderation.

Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation

The Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (原子力損害賠償・廃炉等支援機構, NDF) is a Japanese government-backed body providing financial support for nuclear damage compensation and technical support for Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning.

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is a UK government body established under the Energy Act 2004 that owns and cleans up Britain's earliest civil nuclear sites, including Sellafield.

Nuclear emergency preparedness

Nuclear emergency preparedness is the set of plans and exercises by which governments and nuclear facility operators protect the public in a nuclear or radiological emergency, guided by IAEA standards.

Nuclear Energy Agency

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is an OECD intergovernmental agency, founded in 1958 and based near Paris, promoting cooperation on nuclear safety, science, and law.

Nuclear Energy Agency of Japan

The Nuclear Energy Agency of Japan, formally the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), is Japan's national nuclear research and development agency, created in 2005 by merging two institutes.

Nuclear Energy Institute

The Nuclear Energy Institute is the policy organization of the United States commercial nuclear energy industry, founded in 1994 and based in Washington, DC, promoting nuclear power through policy advocacy.

Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel, also called atomic fuel, is the material that sustains a controlled fission chain reaction in a nuclear reactor, usually ceramic pellets of enriched uranium dioxide in metal tubes.

Nuclear fuel fabrication

Nuclear fuel fabrication is the final front-end step of the nuclear fuel cycle: enriched uranium is made into uranium dioxide pellets, sealed in fuel rods, and assembled for reactor cores.

Nuclear Fuel Services

Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) is a nuclear fuel fabrication company in Erwin, Tennessee, owned by BWX Technologies, supplying fuel for all U.S. naval reactors since 1957.

Nuclear graphite

Nuclear graphite is high-purity synthetic graphite used in nuclear reactors as a neutron moderator and often reflector, slowing fast neutrons to thermal energies that sustain the fission chain reaction.