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Sand sets meeting on his proposal to build nuclear plant in Red River Valley
Feb 1 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Grand Forks Herald, N.D. - North Dakota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Duane Sand will hold two press conferences and a town hall meeting this month to discuss his energy plan and proposal to build a nuclear power plant in the Red River Valley. More...
Nuclear plants more capable of dealing with accidents than thought in past
Feb 2 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Peter Bacque Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. - A relatively severe accident at a nuclear plant like Dominion Virginia Power's Surry Power Station would be significantly less dangerous than federal regulators previously thought, an NRC study says. More...
Study: Peach Bottom equipped to handle major accident
Feb 2 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Sean Adkins - Daily Record/sunday News York Daily Record, Pa. - If a major earthquake hit the area and knocked out all power at or going to Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, systems at the plant would still be able to cool the reactors' cores and avert an accident. More...
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No damage at North Anna from aftershock
Feb 1 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Rusty Dennen The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va. - A noticeable aftershock triggered an "unusual event" declaration Monday night at North Anna Power Station. More...
B&W to Apply for U.S. Department of Energy Small Modular Reactor Funding Opportunity
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb 01, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE:BWC) confirmed today that it plans to apply for a Public-Private Partnership through the U.S. More...
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Disruption – Where Art Thou? Notes from Distributech

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There is all the glitter – the gleaming transmission widgets, the towering consultants’ tents. Tons of wall-to-wall eye candy for more...

POST FUKUSHIMA DISASTER; THE FATE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

Blogger Photo 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 more...

2012 U.S. Energy Sector Outlook Shows U.S. Energy Execs Believes Independence Achievable in 15 Years

By Matt Klein - U.S.ENERGY EXECUTIVES BELIEVE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IS ACHIEVABLE WITHIN 15 YEARS – OVERWHELMING MAJORITY SUPPORT FRACKING 70% of Energy Executives Believe more...

Does Your (Sub) Contractor Selection Process Withstand Scrutiny?

Blogger Photo By Peter Hessler - A recent article in ENR, “Contracting – Sub Prequalification is Tougher but Needed More”, got me to thinking about the more...

A bit mystified about this article

By Mark Wooldridge - DOE official looking at expanding research of small nuclear reactors - Research will be moving forward this year toward development 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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Nuclear-Based Electricity and Economic Theory

By Ferdinand E. Banks
The purpose of this article is to extend the short paper I presented as part of an energy 'debate' at the recent 'Singapore Energy Week'. What I attempted to do in that talk was to more...
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Chancellor's 'Atomausstig': Implications of Nuclear Abandonment for German (and European) Economy. Will Renewables Help Out In It?

By Karol Mazur
Three weeks ago on Friday night in Hamburg, while having a pint of German beer in world-famous St. Pauli district, I met a friend, Michael, an engineer working for one of Germany's leading onshore windmills more...
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Will France Also Play the Nuclear Fool?

By Ferdinand E. Banks
Many years ago, although it seems like centuries, I was sitting in a small bar-disco in a town near Stuttgart Germany, talking to an Ivy League type from the same brigade in the U.S. Army more...
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Germany and the Nuclear Future

By Ferdinand E. Banks
While Germany might temporarily abandon nuclear facilities located in Germany, they will never abandon electricity generated in nuclear reactors -- at least as long as German voters prefer a higher to a lower standard of more...
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