New Reactors
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Four possible sites for Fennovoima
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear NewsThe Fennovoima consortium has named another site in Finland it will study as a potential location for a new nuclear power plant. In January 2008 the…
ASE: Bushehr to start in late 2008
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear News[RIA Novosti, 20 December] The Bushehr nuclear power plant under construction in Iran will not be commissioned until late 2008 at the earliest, according to Russian…
COL application for USEPR at Susquehanna to be submitted
Source: World Nuclear NewsUnistar Nuclear Energy (UNE) and PPL Corp have agreed to prepare and submit a combined construction and operating licence (COL) application for a potential third reactor…
Exelon selects Texan site for COL application
Source: World Nuclear NewsExelon has selected a site some 20 miles (32 km) south of Victoria in Victoria County, Texas, as the site for a combined construction and operating…
Duke files COL application for Lee plant
Source: World Nuclear NewsDuke Energy has submitted a combined construction and operation licence application with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed new William States Lee III plant…
Would-be reactor builders busy in USA
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear NewsPlans for potential new nuclear power sites in Idaho and South Carolina are moving forward with the companies involved – nuclear newcomer Alternate Energy Holdings and…
Mayor: Manitoba should consider nuclear
Source: World Nuclear News[CBC News, 10 December] A local mayor has called for the Canadian province of Manitoba to consider building a nuclear power plant, and has set up…
Europe approves of Belene plan
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe European Commission has issued a 'favourable opinion' of financial arrangements to build two new nuclear reactors at Belene, in Bulgaria. The country's National Electricity Company…
China Guodian proposes Fujian plant
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear News[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 6 December; China Daily, 7 December] China Guodian Corp, one of the country's five leading power producers, has reportedly proposed constructing a nuclear power…
Enel ready and waiting for Italian new build
Source: World Nuclear NewsItaly is facing a worsening energy shortfall but the country's largest utility, Enel, is ready to build new nuclear plants and just waiting for the political…
Batan seeks decree on Indonesian plant
Source: World Nuclear News[Jakarta Post, 6 December] Indonesia's National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan) has called on the government to issue a presidential decree enforcing the 2007 law on long-term…
France, Algeria agree on nuclear cooperation
Source: World Nuclear News[Associated Press, 4 December] France and Algeria signed a nuclear cooperation agreement during a three-day visit by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to Algiers. The nuclear framework…
Construction of Flamanville EPR begins
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear NewsElectricite de France announced that construction of the third reactor at the Flamanville nuclear power plant in Normandy had started on schedule. The new reactor is a…
Second Idaho nuclear plant proposal
Topics: New ReactorsSource: World Nuclear News[Idaho Statesman, 4 December] MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co – a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co of Des Moines, Iowa – is considering constructing a nuclear…
NRC accepts COL application for STP
Source: World Nuclear NewsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review a combined construction and operating licence application for two new reactors at the South Texas Project in Texas.…
Italy’s Enel signs for up to 1200 MWe of nuclear
Source: World Nuclear NewsItaly's leading power generator will take 12.5% of the output from Flamanville 3, with an option for the same from five subsequent new nuclear plants built…
Bruce Power to acquire Energy Alberta
Source: World Nuclear NewsBruce Power has signed a letter of intent to purchase certain assets of Energy Alberta Corp, which has already begun preliminary work on a proposal to…
Dominion submits COL application
Source: World Nuclear NewsDominion filed an application with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 27 November for a combined construction and operation licence for a new reactor at its…
BE prepares for new build
Source: World Nuclear NewsBritish Energy (BE) has made transmission connection agreements with National Grid for possible new nuclear plants at Sizewell, Hinkley, Dungeness and Bradwell. All but Hinkley are…
CBI: nuclear power has "major potential"
Source: World Nuclear NewsBritish business has suggested 12 new nuclear power reactors for the country as part of a climate change strategy. In Climate change: Everyone's business, the Confederation…