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- Source NRC - Acting on an initiative advanced by Commissioner George Apostolakis and Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken steps to further improve the licensing reviews of potential applications to license small modular reactors (SMRs). Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, William Magwood and William Ostendorff concurred...
- Source NRC - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized the transfer of the possession license for the Zion Nuclear Power Station from Exelon Generating Company LLC to ZionSolutions LLC. The license transfer is effective as of today. The two unit plant is located about 40 miles north of Chicago. The Zion station has been shut down since 1998...
The first domestically produced VVER fuel assemblies have been loaded into the cores of the Russian-designed units 1 and 2 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in Jiangsu province, China. - Edited By Tom Lamar - Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL and Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (JNPC) signed a contract in December 1997 for the supply of fuel for...
- Edited By Tom Lamar - Energetics Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of VSE Corporation, reported today that the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is hosting a delegation from Romania on a visit to Washington, DC and other U.S. locations to encourage partnerships with U.S. businesses that can participate in and support Romania's civil...
"I want to thank the managers and staff of the NRC for making this award possible by their dedication to this agency's important public health and safety mission," said NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko. - Source NRC - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a 4,000-strong independent federal safety regulator dedicated to protecting people and...
- By Tom Lamar - Waste Control Specialists LLC reached another milestone in Andrews County, Texas. Waste Control Specialists has selected a company to build its low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. Colorado based DelHur industries will start construction later this year after 75 million dollars in financing becomes available. DelHur was the...
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If I was a print journalist, I would be limited in my ability to describe the vast difference between the presentations of Areva, GE Hitachi, Westinghouse, and EnergySolutions and that of the Union of Concerned Scientists during the first session of the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future...
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Progress reported in Czech Republic, India, and China The New York Times reports in a major story that CEZ, the Czech state- owned nuclear power utility, is ready to accept bids on two and as many as five new nuclear reactors at multiple sites around the country. Two reactors are planned to expand the Temelin plant and up to three more may be built...
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Germany's utilities and major energy consuming businesses are taking the battle over special taxes into the public domain. They are refusing to be patsies for the politicians who are trying to frame the debate and tell the public that extending nuclear power plant operation is simply a gift to the plant owners. Though I do not speak German and am...
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After spending a couple of days at the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, I had a sense of deja vu that I could not shake. I kept telling myself that I had heard many of the ideas about used fuel management before. I did some looking around and found an editorial I wrote in the third issue...
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Every few months, a reporter hits upon nuclear fusion - or a fraud involving nuclear fusion – and that may set up a brief uptick in attention paid to fusion and it enthusiasts. Another nuclear energy topic that springs forward every now and again is thorium and its potential as a complementary or replacement fuel source for uranium. No question...
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There have been some interesting recent discussions about the overall effect of introducing large amounts of weather dependent wind energy into a complex power grid supplied by more controllable forms of power generation. The conversations have been building on research conducted over several years as countries and states gain experience in integrating...
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I have just had the pleasure, and sometimes the frustration, of observing two days worth of hearings by the Reactor and Fuel Cycle Technology Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. The venue for the sessions was the Washington Marriott Hotel on 22nd Street, NW, just north of Pennsylvania Avenue. You can find the...