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Board holds off recommendation for future of SRS

May 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Michael Ulmer - The possible storage of spent nuclear fuel at Savannah River Site was left on the table Monday by the SRS Citizens Advisory Board, a group designed to offer advice to the Department of Energy, which owns SRS. More...

Nation's largest uranium mine planned for N.M.

May 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Michael Hartranft Albuquerque Journal, N.M. - It's been more than a dozen years since the last uranium ore was mined in New Mexico, but a Canada-based company and a Japanese partner propose to break that spell soon. More...

Letters show rift over San Onofre nuclear repairs

May 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Abby Sewell Los Angeles Times - In a flurry of letters late last year, Southern California Edison and the manufacturer that designed the steam generators at the now-dark San Onofre nuclear power plant appeared to be at odds over a long-term plan to repair the troubled facility. More...

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Audit questions MOX plant temporary worker expenses

May 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Rob Pavey The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. - The contractor building the mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site might have overbilled the government as much as $3.7 million for temporary subcontractor living expenses, according to a new report. More...

North Anna plant passes NRC review

May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Rusty Dennen The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va. - North Anna Power Station's two nuclear reactors operated safely last year, according to its latest performance review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. More...

Richland nuclear plant oversight returns to routine level

May 16 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Annette Cary Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Wash.) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ending its increased oversight of Energy Northwest's nuclear power plant near Richland, it said in a letter released Wednesday. More...

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Articles

Some Aspects of Japan and Nuclear Energy

By Ferdinand E. Banks
On: May 6, 2013

In my new energy economics book (2013), the words "lies" and "misunderstandings" are found several times in almost every chapter. I may also have mentioned (once again) that many years ago I took a stroll more...

Not Business But Personal: Nuclear Energy

By Ferdinand E. Banks
On: January 29, 2013

"Not personal but business" is one of the famous lines delivered by Al Pachino in the film 'The Godfather'. In this short contribution I move in the other direction, because nuclear energy...

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The Beginning of the Nuclear Renaissance Has Not Been Televised

By Ferdinand E. Banks
On: December 13, 2012

According to the United Nations energy organization (IAEA), statistics indicate that for 2009 and 2010, nuclear reactors in Sweden and Germany managed by the Swedish firm Vattenfall had the lowest capacity factors in the (nuclear) more...

Logic and Swedish Nuclear Energy: An Update

By Ferdinand E. Banks
On: November 21, 2012

In the early summer of 2011 I saw a notice in a Swedish newspaper that the well known nuclear debater, Amory Lovins, had been invited to a large conference sponsored by the Tallberg Foundation. It more...

The Future of Nuclear Power in California

By Tam Hunt
On: July 26, 2012

It's not been a good year for nuclear power. A federal court recently found that local storage solutions for nuclear waste, kept currently at each power plant where the waste is produced, have not been more...

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