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• India expands Russian reactor deal

  India 'Roadmap' includes four more Russian reactors at Kudankulam . . . but r uling coalition withdraws bill to cap liability for U.S. firms after protests from left-wing parties 15 March ( NucNet ): India has agreed a ‘roadmap’ for the construction of further nuclear power plants in the country in cooperation with Russia. Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh said on March 12 that the roadmap... Posted Mar 15 2010, 06:20 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, GE-Hitachi, Kudankulam

• Victoria, Texas, Two-Step

  Exelon switches reactors but not vendors for the twin unit project A few months ago the nation’s biggest nuclear power utility dealt a devastating blow to the GE-Hitachi consortium that is developing the new Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor ( ESBWR ) a 1,550 MW unit. Because the design is still under review by the NRC, and not yet certified for market, the Department of Energy ranked it as... Posted Mar 27 2009, 11:28 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Exelon, GE-Hitachi, Victoria Texas

• GE-Hitachi moves on laser enrichment

  Decision to build a full-scale facility could come in 2009 While Areva is still silent on a decision whether and where to build a uranium enrichment plant at one of five potential sites in the U.S., Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a subsidiary of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), has announced it has selected GEH's Wilmington, NC, headquarters site for a potential commercial uranium enrichment facility... Posted Apr 30 2008, 10:25 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: laser enrichment, GE-Hitachi

• GE Hitachi cut ties with Toshiba

  Japanese nuclear giants set a competitive course for U.S. market share The Daily Yomiuri, an English language newspaper in Japan, reports that the joint opening of a U.S. office by Hitachi and General Electric is a signal of a new competitive race between the two firms and Toshiba which owns Westinghouse in the U.S.  The new office set up by GE and Hitachi in San Jose, CA, will market boiling... Posted Apr 27 2008, 03:10 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Toshiba, GE-Hitachi

• GE-Hitachi pulls out of Ontario bidding

  Company still has a long-term relationship with AECL The Toronto Star reports that GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy told the Ontario government it will not bid on construction of a new nuclear power plant in the province. There are still a lot of decisions to be made. It isn't over until the fat lady sings. The decision shortens the list of qualified bidders to three - Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., France's... Posted Apr 09 2008, 03:44 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Bruce Power, Ontario, GE-Hitachi