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• Luminant advances Mitsubishi APWR

  Texas energy company expects to file with the NRC in 2008 for two units Energy Futures, now branded as Luminant, is currently  the only U.S. reactor operator which plans to file an application with the NRC for new reactors that will use Mitsubishi's Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor (APWR). Luminant plans to build two new units at its Comanche Peak reactor station, but has not formally committed... Posted Jun 15 2008, 10:50 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Mitsubishi, APWR, Luminant

• For Mitsubishi size doesn't matter

  Firm will start making large forgings and may invest in Pebble Bed  Reuters reports that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to get into the business of manufacturing large forgings for nuclear reactors including its own 1,700 MWe PWR .  It joins firms in Korea, France, and the U.K. who are seeking to gain market share in this field. The only firm making the components now is Japan Steel... Posted May 27 2008, 11:03 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, Mitsubishi

• Mitsubishi files APWR design with NRC

  Approval is expected by 2011 Bloomberg wire service reports Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has filed a 9,500 page application seeking approval for its nuclear power-plant design from the NRC . The package is submitted in electronic form composed of text, data, and engineering drawings. The application for the U.S. advanced pressurized water reactor, APWR ; a 1,700 MWe reactor, was submitted at a ceremony... Posted Jan 03 2008, 12:34 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Mitsubishi, NRC, APWR

• PBMR seeks Mitsubishi investment in new reactor

  Demonstration plants are expensive South Africa has asked for funding from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan to finance all or part of 24 small nuclear power installations, at 160 Mw each, to be built by the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) project. They will need a lot of money because the rollout of this completely new reactor design goes far beyond building a prototype. The report was published... Posted Dec 25 2007, 05:21 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, NGNP, Idaho National Laboratory, Mitsubishi

• Areva files EPR for NRC design certification

  Constellation's Calvert Cliffs site will be first in line for the 1,600 MWe reactor Saying it had reached a major nuclear-industry milestone through work done mostly in Lynchburg, VA, AREVA asked the NRC this week to approve its design for a new reactor. It’s the first step in what AREVA hopes will be an eight-year process. It expects a reactor will be built and operating by 2015. The application... Posted Dec 15 2007, 12:22 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Areva, EPR, Mitsubishi, Atmea