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NRC puts San Onofre complaint to rest
Source: Neutron BytesThe federal regulatory agency tells Friends of the Earth to stop beating a dead horse. SONGS is closed forever. The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) dismissed…
Nuclear News Roundup for 8/1/15
Source: Neutron BytesThis is a compilation of news briefs from wire services, NucNet, and World Nuclear News Ameren pulls the plug on license application for second unit at…
TerraPower announces new CEO
Source: Neutron BytesTerraPower of Bellvue, WA, announced July 15 that it has appointed Lee McIntire, former Chairman and CEO of CH2M HILL, as CEO. According to a statement…
Civility & Safety at NRC Public Meetings – An Update for Nuclear Utilities
Source: Neutron BytesThere is a costs in dollars and lost brand value when meetings go south This week the NRC’s public blog posted an article about what it…
Entrepreneurial Startups Tackle Advanced Nuclear Reactor Designs
Source: Neutron BytesAlmost three dozen firms representing $1.3 billion of investor money are pursuing technological innovations in the field of nuclear energy. A June 2015 report by the…
Videos available of Nuclear Matters Boston meeting
Source: Neutron BytesNuclear Matters was in Boston last week for an event in the national Nuclear Going Forward series, co-hosted with Bloomberg. The conversation focused on the many…
Nuclear News Roundup for July 6, 2015
Source: Neutron BytesFinland moves ahead with Hanhikivi construction license ~ It faces questions about an investor In what looks like a cliff hanger move, at the last minute…
Energy in New England focus of Bloomberg forum with Nuclear Matters
Source: Neutron BytesBloomberg BNA and Nuclear Matters host Boston conversation June 24 focused on the value of nuclear energy in New England’s energy mix Free Event Features Industry…
Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers 264
Source: Neutron BytesThis post represents the latest link in an unbroken chain of more than four years of the weekly summaries of the best of the pro-nuclear blogs.…
Cost and rates rising for US reactors under construction
Source: Neutron BytesIn Georgia and South Carolina, which are regulated energy markets, the construction of four 1150 MW Westinghouse nuclear reactors are being financed by a pay-as-you-go plan…
Four major nuclear deals with a lot of waiting ahead
Source: Neutron BytesWhat do India, the Czech Republic, South Africa, and Brazil all have in common? All four countries have significant ambitions to build new nuclear reactors. However,…
Nuclear news roundup for June 1, 2015
Source: Neutron BytesChinese firms combine forces to fuel export sales China Power Investment Corp. and the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp announced a merger this week. Nothing at…
Can reactors run for 100 years? First you have to build them.
Source: Neutron BytesVogtle site sees slippage as suppliers miss deadlines The Associated Press reports, as a result of obtaining documents from the Georgia Public Service Commission, that the…
Nuclear news roundup for May 26, 2015
Source: Neutron BytesFrom NucNet, World Nuclear News, and Wire Services Japan Regulator Approves Restart Of Ikata-3 20 May (NucNet): Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) approved the restart of…
Money issues key to new builds in Czech Republic and South Africa
Source: Neutron BytesCzech Republic to try again in 2016 for new nuclear units The government’s on-again, off-again efforts to procure two or possibly even four new nuclear reactors…
NRC takes a closer look at seismic risk at three plants
Source: Neutron BytesThe orders for studies are not findings of risk The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has set a June 2017 deadline for two of three Western U.S. operating…
Alleged nuclear scam CEO scrams
Source: Neutron BytesBoise Federal Court issues a bench warrant for AEHI CEO Don Gillispie Readers of this blog with long memories may recall the comical efforts of penny…
Will Areva survive a cascade of crises?
Source: Neutron BytesPhillippe Knoche, Areva’s CEO, at this point in his brief history at the head of the firm, could probably be forgiven for thinking that without too…
Reactor News Rundown for May 3, 2015
Source: Neutron BytesDavis-Besse gets OK on EIS from NRC The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week issued its final supplemental environmental impact statement for the proposed operating license…
Chinese nuclear firms compete abroad for exports and for market share at home
Source: Neutron BytesTwo giant rival Chinese state-owned nuclear firms are pulling out the stops to achieve success with exports and increased market share of the restarted domestic reactor…