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• Greenpeace Militants Board Ship: Miss Target on Climate Change

  Greenpeace militants yesterday boarded a ship transporting steam generators to the Olkiluoto 3 EPR reactor in Finland. The organization’s action, taken in the run-up to December’s climate summit in Copenhagen, is a protest against nuclear energy, which it claims would harm efforts to combat climate change. Once again, Greenpeace has attacked the wrong target – while no one [...] Read More... Posted Nov 17 2009, 10:20 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Climate Change, Energy Security, Sustainable Development, CO2-Free Energy, Greenpeace, EPR reactor

• RB Watkins – A New Member of the AREVA Family

  By Katherine Berezowskyj Today we would like to spotlight another integral part of AREVA family here in North America─ RB Watkins, a transformer field services company based in Stow, Ohio. Founded in 2004, the company joined the AREVA group in December 2008 and is now part AREVA’s Transmission & Distribution subsidiary. RB Watkins [...] Read More... Posted Sep 02 2009, 04:50 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, AREVA T&D, Transmission & Dist., Ohio, RB Watkins

• AREVA Extends Smart Grid Collaboration with Microsoft

  By Jarret Adams AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has announced that it has extended its three-year collaboration with Microsoft for the development of Smarter Grid Management solutions, so the global power industry can manage electricity demand more efficiently. AREVA and Microsoft already provide AREVA customers with some key capabilities for managing the grid. Under [...]... Posted May 13 2009, 03:58 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Energy, News, Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission and Distribution, Smart Grids, Microsoft

• Augusta Chronicle Clarifies Situation at MOX Facility

  On a blog hosted by the Augusta Chronicle, reporter Rob Pavey provides a good summary of the situation at the MOX facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Shaw AREVA MOX Services is building the facility which will convert nuclear weapons material into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for U.S. nuclear power plants. The reporter [...] Read More... Posted May 06 2009, 02:22 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Recycling, AREVA, Government and Policy, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, Energy Security, Shaw AREVA MOX Services, MOX Fuel, MOX

• AREVA’s U.S. Web Site Now Online

  AREVA has launched a new U.S. Web site focused on its products and services in the United States that reinforces the company’s leadership position in providing CO2-free energy technology. AREVA North America President Jacques Besnainou said, “This new Web site offers something for everyone, from bloggers and journalists to government officials, job seekers, and the general [...] Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 10:05 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Site News, AREVA Inc., News, AREVA EPR Reactor, EPR, Energy Security, Uncategorized

• MOX Fuel Supports Environmental and National Security Goals

  By Jarret Adams The MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility under construction in South Carolina recently passed the milestone of 2 million work hours completed without a lost time incident. This facility is an important project because it will take weapons-grade material in our nation’s stockpiles and convert into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. [...] Read More... Posted Apr 08 2009, 02:38 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Used Fuel, Recycling, AREVA, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, News, Energy Security, Sustainable Development, Plutonium, Mixed Oxide Fuel, Shaw AREVA MOX Services, MOX Fuel, Nuclear Weapons, Savannah River Site, MOX Services

• AREVA Expands Heavy Component Manufacturing to Support New Nuclear Plants

  By Jarret Adams AREVA has unveiled plans to further increase its production capacity at its Chalon/Saint-Marcel manufacturing facility in eastern France, to keep pace with its strong international growth. During the coming years, the group will invest €35 million ($47 million) in the plant, which will enable it to produce the heavy components for the equivalent of 2.7 [...] Read More... Posted Apr 02 2009, 11:51 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, News, Nuclear Power Plants, EPR, Energy Security, Uncategorized, Nuclear Manufacturing, Chalon, AREVA EPR, Heavy Components, AREVA Newport News

• Renewables, Including Wind, Represent Growing Part of AREVA’s Business

  By Jarret Adams Today’s announcement of a memorandum of understanding for 80 offshore wind turbines for AREVA’s subsidiary Multibrid signals a major step forward for our renewable business. Apart from the fact that this will be a contract worth over $900 million for AREVA, it reinforces our position as a major player in the renewables sector. These [...] Read More... Posted Mar 31 2009, 03:00 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Energy, News, Energy Security, Renewable Energy, Biopower, Renewables, Uncategorized, Canada, Biomass, Offshore Wind, Multibrid, Nuclaer Power, Wind Turbines, Wind Power, ADAGE

• AREVA’s Sustainable Innovation: Beyond Measurement and Marketing

  By Laura Clise Sustainable Development & Continuous Improvement In the current economic environment, more people have started to question the staying-power of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability programs. Thought leaders and practitioners have made the case that sustainable development programs and initiatives should remain intact despite cost cutting. Still, the economic crisis... Posted Mar 26 2009, 03:49 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Energy Policy, News, Renewables, Sustainable Development, Uncategorized, Environment, Corporate Social Responsiblity

• It’s the Right Time to Reconsider U.S. Recycling

  During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing yesterday, the discussion of the future of the Yucca Mountain project raised the possibility of recycling nuclear fuel as part of the nation’s used fuel management strategy. Recycling nuclear fuel would enable us to reduce the volume of material for disposal by a factor of at [...] Read More... Posted Mar 06 2009, 04:34 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Used Fuel, Recycling, AREVA, Government and Policy, Energy Policy, Yucca Mountain, Used Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Energy: Key to U.S. Green Job Creation

  by Jarret Adams In this difficult economic climate, there has been much talk among policymakers and others about investing the energy infrastructure and creating new green jobs. Renewables are often mentioned are key elements in creating green jobs, but often overlooked is the contribution that investment in nuclear energy is already making in creating green [...] Read More... Posted Mar 04 2009, 08:45 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Government and Policy, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Eagle Rock Enrichment Project, News, Idaho, AREVA EPR Reactor, NEI, Green Jobs, Northrop Grumman, Idaho Falls