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• Two More Utilities Tell GE "No Thanks" on the ESBWR

  Entergy and Dominion Resources have announced that they have been unable to reach an agreement with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy on the details of building Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ESBWR) as their next new nuclear power plants. Entergy had started the process of obtaining a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) for an ESBWR at two different sites , Grand Gulf in Mississippi... Posted Jan 10 2009, 04:39 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, ESBWR, Entergy, GE-Hitachi, Grand Gulf, River Bend

• Exelon reevaluating its choice of ESBWR

  Exelon announced last year that it was basing its future project in Texas on GE's ESBWR design. That choice, however, may be reevaluated as Exelon's internal reviewers obtain more information about the technical readiness of the design. Here is a quote from a November 25 article in the Chicago Tribune titled Exelon rethinks design for proposed reactor . "Exelon said it is currently "considering... Posted Nov 25 2008, 08:52 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, ESBWR