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• Outlook for New Nuclear Plants in the U.S.

  By Katherine Berezowskyj What’s next for nuclear reactors in the United States? Rebecca Smith of the Wall Street Journal just tackled the answer to this question. Her recent piece, “The New Nukes,” took a look at what’s being developed for the new nuclear reactors and how they are going to “be safer, cheaper, and more efficient [...] Read More... Posted Sep 08 2009, 06:50 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., News, AREVA EPR Reactor, Nuclear Power Plants, Spent Fuel Recycling, La Hague, Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Smith

• TIME’s Look at AREVA and the Future of Nuclear Energy

  AREVA prides itself on being the leader in the nuclear energy cycle, and the company’s success has caught the attention of Time Magazine. In a piece posted to Time’s online section from August 7, AREVA was identified as “the first place that countries or power companies go when looking for all of their nuclear services─ [...] Read More... Posted Aug 13 2009, 12:25 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., News, AREVA EPR Reactor, Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Renaissance, Anne Lauvergeon, Olkiluoto, Ben Elias, Time Magazine, OL3

• Dr. Alan Hanson of AREVA Testifies before the House Committee on Science and Technology

  The House Committee on Science and Technology spent the morning listening to information on nuclear fuel recycling from AREVA’s Dr. Alan Hanson, Executive Vice-President of Technology and Used Fuel Management. Some highlights include Hanson’s analysis of the main benefits and criticisms of recycling: The main benefits associated with recycling are that it makes waste management [...] Read More... Posted Jun 17 2009, 01:19 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Recycling, Yucca Mountain, Used Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Spent Fuel Recycling, Non-proliferation, Government & Policy, Alan Hanson

• Reduce. Reuse. Recycle Spent Fuel.

  by Katherine Berezowskyj After a nuclear reactor has produced base-load, CO2-free energy, there is the matter of what to do with the left-over nuclear fuel. There are currently two options for dealing with the spent or “used” fuel. First is the direct disposal in a deep geological repository. The other option, not currently [...] Read More... Posted May 21 2009, 05:10 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Recycling, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Spent Fuel Recycling

• Whitehouse.gov: Open for Questions on Nuclear Energy

  The official White House website has added a new feature, “Open For Questions,” which allows people to ask the President key questions on the economy and vote up other people’s submissions. So far, over 13,000 people have submitted over 16,000 questions. There are a number of good questions on the economic effect of nuclear energy, in [...] Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 11:42 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Government and Policy, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., News, Nuclear Policy, Climate Change, Energy Security, Uncategorized, White House, Barack Obama

• Excellent Editorial from WSJ

  Several of our fellow nuclear bloggers have already linked to William Tucker’s excellent editorial from the Wall Street Journal, “There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste.” We thought we’d add our voice to the resounding applause for this excellent piece, which is well-written and well-argued. AREVA is proud to be leading the [...] Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 04:30 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Used Fuel, Recycling, Government and Policy, Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Nuclear Power Plants, Spent Fuel Recycling

• Some Questions and Answers about Nuclear Fuel Recycling

  by Laurence Pernot Though people who follow the debate over used nuclear fuel are well aware of the benefits of recycling, we’ve found that many in the general public don’t even know that it’s an option. There’s a lot of confusion out there about used fuel recycling - whether it’s feasible, practical, and safe. So we’ve prepared this brief FAQ about [...] Read More... Posted Mar 10 2009, 03:49 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Fuel Recycling, waste, reprocessing

• 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

• Quote of the Day

  From George Monbiot at The Guardian, an argument that nuclear power should be paired with renewables in the clean energy gameplan: It’s true that my position has changed. As the likely effects of climate change have become clearer, nuclear power, by comparison, has come to seem less threatening.[...] So why contemplate nuclear power at all? Why not, [...] Read More... Posted Mar 02 2009, 10:57 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Fuel Recycling, Nuclear Policy, Energy Security, Renewable Energy, George Monbiot, The Guardian