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NuScale Power Receives Broad Support for DOE Commercialization
PORTLAND, Ore., May 21, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Backed by broad support from the U.S. electric power industry and elected officials, NuScale Power LLC has submitted its proposal to participate in a U.S. Department of Energy program to accelerate the deployment of small modular reactors. More...
Westinghouse, Burns & McDonnell and Electric Boat Collaborate in Applying for DOE SMR Funding Opportunity
ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire - Westinghouse Electric Company, Burns & McDonnell and General Dynamics Electric Boat will collaboratively team to support the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) application for the U.S. More...
Westinghouse reduces work force by 177 because of nuclear slowdown
May 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Thomas Olson The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Westinghouse Electric Co. laid off 25 employees across the country today, and another 152 accepted an early-retirement offer, to adjust its work force to a slowdown in nuclear-power work, the company said. More...
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San Onofre's future hinges on finding cause of abnormal tube wear
May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Abby Sewell Los Angeles Times - On Jan. 31, alarms alerted the control room at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station that a radiation leak was occurring in one of the nearly 39,000 tubes that carry radioactive water in the steam generators. More...
Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri Announce Creation of NexStart SMR Alliance to Rapidly License and Deploy Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor Technology
PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire - Westinghouse Electric Company and the Missouri Electric Alliance led by Ameren Missouri today announced the formation of a utility participation group called the NexStart SMR Alliance. More...
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NPP – Part 2 – Remote NPPs - Transfer of energy

Blogger Photo By Chavdar Azarov - From previous article “NPP – cooling of melting core” the surrounding water might be used for emergency cooling/ flooding of more...

Co and Co2

Blogger Photo By Alexander Khripkov - The variety of kinds of Carbon is defined not by external display of its physical and chemical properties. This definition more...

A Few Energy Questions

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - Tomorrow morning, it is ask the editor time in Phoenix, as I head out to speak to a conference of more...

More U for India's Hungry Reactors: Tummalapalle Commissioned

Blogger Photo By Sam Tranum - India has just commissioned the Tumalapalle uranium mine and mill in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district, Thespan style="border-width: 0px; ma more...

Turkey’s Nuclear Power Plant Controversy

Blogger Photo By Ben Lack -   There has been much debate over whether nuclear energy is renewable or not. But for Turkey, the nuclear issue more...
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A Nuclear Dream From London

By Ferdinand E. Banks
During the 10 years of so that I taught international finance at Uppsala University (Sweden), I made two things clear: I didn't teach nonsense any longer (meaning a large part of advanced macroeconomics), and so more...
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Post Fukushima Disaster; The Fate of Nuclear Energy

By Shehu Khaleel
Why the heated attack between the pro-nuclear and pro-renewable energy experts intensifies after the Fukushima incidence? The two groups had been attacking each other for quite a long time.

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After the Coal Plants Close, Where Will the U.S. Get Cheap Electricity?

By Mark Morabito
According to ExxonMobil's newest energy report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, "By 2040, worldwide electricity demand will be 80 percent higher than it was in 2010," and ".electricity generation will account for more...
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The New Power Mix in Germany -- What Does It Mean For the Rest of Europe?

By Nigel Blackaby
In the wake of Fukushima disaster, energy experts now agree that securing Europe's future electricity supply will require an increasing convergence between existing fossil fuel sources and the fast-growing renewable generation sector. Nowhere is this more...
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Is it Time for California to Phase Out Nuclear Power?

By Tam Hunt
Italy recently became the fourth nation to pledge to phase out nuclear power since Japan's Fukushima disaster. Italy accomplished this feat by a popular referendum, soon after Germany did the same in its legislature (Bundestag). more...
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