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• Details about mPower from Powergenworldwide.com and Chris Mowry

  PowerGenWorldWide.com has published a fascinating interview with Chris Mowry, President and CEO, Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) Modular Nuclear Energy titled The mPower TM Modular Reactor . The conversation goes into significant detail about B&W's design decisions, target market, engineering constraints, and desire to make use of its vertically integrated North American manufacturing base.... Posted Mar 03 2010, 04:59 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: mPower, B and W

• Lynchburg, Virginia Has Reasons To Be Excited About Nuclear Industry Growth Prospects

  Last weekend, I received a press release from Babcock and Wilcox describing their recent leasing of a 50,000 square foot building in Lynchburg capable of eventually hosting a team of 300 engineers, reactor designers, and support people. The entire facility will be focused on efforts to complete the mPower TM modular reactor design work and then to complete the process of getting the system through... Posted Dec 08 2009, 04:20 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: babcock and wilcox, mPower

• How can policy help overcome hurdles to nuclear power in the United States?

  Over at The Energy Collective , Jesse Jenkins, who directs the energy and climate policy program at the Breakthrough Institute posed a series of questions about public policy aimed at initiating a discussion about overcoming hurdles to nuclear power deployment . His entering position for the sake of this discussion is that deploying nuclear power is a good thing, so he has made a strong effort to keep... Posted Dec 02 2009, 04:45 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: small reactors, NuScale, Hyperion Power Generation, mPower, small nuclear

• Update on Babcock and Wilcox mPower Modular Reactor

  During the ANS Winter Meeting, I stopped by the B&W booth and had a chat with some of the booth representatives about the progress that the company is making on its mPower TM modular reactor. We had a good conversation about steady progress and a project that is meeting its planned milestones. I received a promise for an updated set of materials and graphics, but in the meantime I also stumbled... Posted Nov 21 2009, 04:15 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: babcock and wilcox, mPower

• Engineering Opinion on mPowerTM from Ted Rockwell

  Here is another pithy clip from Ted Rockwell's testimony to the Senate Republican Conference on June 22, 2009. He provides some solid engineering reasons why he agrees that modular reactors provide an interesting alternative to large ones. He is specifically addressing the B&M mPower™ in response to a question from Senator Lamar Alexander, but the comment really applies to a wide range of alternative... Posted Jun 26 2009, 07:23 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: engineering, opinion, mPower