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• Areva targets Fresno, California, for new reactor

  The French state-owned nuclear giant will have to contend with California’s strong anti-nuclear bias and its 30-year ban against new reactors AREVA and Fresno Nuclear Energy Group ( FNEG ), LLC announced that both companies have signed a Letter of Intent to cooperate in the development of a nuclear power plant project in the Fresno, Calif , area. The agreement updates a relationship that has been maturing... Posted Dec 29 2009, 02:58 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Areva, Fresno Nuclear Energy Group

• Baloney detection for nuclear new builds

  You can't tell the players without a scorecard In 2001 Michael Shermer, a columnist for Scientific American, introduced the concept of baloney detection , which is the fine art of detecting fraud in the scientific and engineering realms. Schermer asks five questions which are appropriate for assessing the legitimacy of a claim. In the case of nuclear energy, baloney detection is unusually appropriate... Posted Oct 30 2007, 10:18 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, AEHI, Energy Alberta, Michael Shermer, baloney detection, NRG Energy, Transition Power Utah

• Abstract - Update on DeVore's Nuclear Initiative

  He’s got a long way to go By Dan Yurman, Contributing Reporter Fuel Cycle Week, V6 N246 09/18/07 Assemblyman Chuck DeVore , a republican from a conservative district in southern California, wants to overturn California's 31-year old ban on new nuclear power plants. Last April the Democratic majority on a legislative committee slammed the door on his initiative to overturn the state’s 31-year ban on... Posted Sep 19 2007, 09:15 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, Chuck DeVore, California ban on building nuclear power plants

• Chuck DeVore launches nuclear ballot initiative

  California State Assemblyman isn't just titling at windmills A California republican state law maker isn't taking "no" for an answer from the state's Energy Commission nor from his Democratic colleagues who shut him down in a committee vote earlier this year. Rep. Chuck DeVore thinks the future of energy in California is driven with nuclear reactors and he's signed up with a group of Fresno businessmen... Posted Jul 15 2007, 02:16 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, Chuck DeVore