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NRG gets licenses for STP twin ABWRs, but little hope to build them
Source: Neutron BytesThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has cleared the way for the agency’s Office of New Reactors to issue two Combined Licenses (COL) for Nuclear Innovation North…
News Updates from ANS, Third Way
Source: Neutron BytesANS Releases Nuclear in the States Toolkit The American Nuclear Society (ANS) introduced the Nuclear in the States Toolkit, Version 1.0 (PDF File) at a media…
India takes another step toward deals with U.S. nuclear vendors
Source: Neutron BytesIn a step towards opening its market to the nuclear reactors vendors of western nations, India this week finally signed off on to an international agreement…
Nuclear News Roundup for 1/31/16
Source: Neutron BytesAreva’s Jaitapur agreement due by year-end (WNA) A deal between France and India for the construction of six 1600 MW EPR nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur…
SMR developers form advocacy group in DC
Source: Neutron BytesLeading developers and potential customers of small modular reactors (SMR) have formed a consortium, called SMR Smart, to advance the commercialization of the innovative light water…
Nuclear News Roundup for 1/24/16
Source: Neutron BytesEDF plans two new nuclear reactors in France by 2030 (Reuters) France’s EDF plans to build two new nuclear reactors by 2030 in a bid to…
Third Way to Assemble Advanced Nuclear Technology Pioneers at DC Summit and Showcase Jan 27
Source: Neutron BytesThird Way, in partnership with the Idaho National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will host the first ever Advanced Nuclear Summit and…
NuScale to offer 100% MOX fuel option for its SMR
Source: Neutron BytesNew UK NNL study supports the ability of the NuScale Power Module to reduce plutonium stockpiles NuScale Power announced the completion of a study commissioned from…
Nuclear news roundup for 01/17/16
Source: Neutron BytesCNNC to construct prototype floating plant (WNA) A demonstration floating nuclear power plant based on China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC’s) ACP100S small reactor will be built…
Feds award cost sharing grants for advanced nuclear reactor designs
Source: Neutron BytesThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded two $6 million cost sharing grants as the first installments of what could be, over time, up to $80…
Terrestrial Energy Gets CAD$10M in Series A Funding
Source: Neutron BytesTerrestrial Energy, an advanced nuclear technology company bringing its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) technology to industrial markets in the 2020s, has raised CAD$10 million in…
2016 Look Ahead for Nuclear Energy
Source: Neutron BytesThe outlook for nuclear energy globally is better than expected, but in the US it is a time of retrenchment. This is the annual look ahead…
Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers 291
Source: Neutron BytesThis post represents the latest link in an unbroken chain of more than five years of the weekly summaries of the best of the pro-nuclear blogs.…
Competition heats up for SMR Manufacturing
Source: Neutron BytesThe UK seeks to become the world’s center for export of factory built small modular nuclear reactors, but first customers have the place orders for them.…
Nuclear Energy News Roundup for 12/05/15
Source: Neutron BytesThese news briefs are based on wire services, NucNet, WNN, and other sources. India Plans six more fast breeder reactors India’s Department of Atomic Energy has…
Idaho lab loses spent fuel R&D project
Source: Neutron BytesThe State of Idaho dug in its heels over a request for a waiver of the current Federal consent decree on cleanup due in part as…
China’s big bet on the UK nuclear program
Source: Neutron BytesChina General Nuclear (CGN) will invest $9 billion in EDF Hinkley C nuclear power station which is slated to deliver two giant 1600 MW Areva EPRs…
Current losses and future liabilities challenge major nuclear reactor vendors
Source: Neutron BytesThe weeks preceding the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday did not hold a lot of cheer for two of the major nuclear reactor vendors. The Wall Street Journal…
The long and the short of Obama’s Nuclear Energy Summit
Source: Neutron BytesKey stakeholders will need to work together to create a new paradigm for nuclear innovation success to develop a long-term program to build, test, review for…
Nuclear Innovation Alliance Launches in Cambridge, MA
Source: Neutron BytesInvestors and Innovators Set Plans to Accelerate the Deployment and Commercialization of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies Cambridge, Mass. – The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) was formally…