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• DOE awards $40 million for NGNP

  The money will be used for conceptual designs U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced Mar 8 selections for the award of $40 million to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego-based General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ).  The results of this work will help the agency determine whether to proceed... Posted Mar 08 2010, 11:38 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Westinghouse, NGNP, next generation nuclear plant, DOE, steven chu, Secretary of Energy, general atomics

• DOE releases $40M for NGNP

  The funding opportunity is for design work on a high temperature gas cooled reactor The Department of Energy announced Sept 18 a significant funding  opportunity for work on the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ). U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that up to $40 million in funding will be available from the Department of Energy to support design and planning work for the Next Generation... Posted Sep 18 2009, 12:33 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Department of Energy, NGNP, next generation nuclear plant, DOE, steven chu, design

• NGNP gets 2009 funding

  Omnibus appropriation includes $160M The Idaho Falls Post Register , which retains published content behind a firewall accessible only to subscribers, has two reports today on nuclear energy that are worth your attention. The first is that the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) has done well in the FY2009 budget which was finally cleared by Congress nearly six months after it was due. The second is... Posted Feb 27 2009, 07:39 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NGNP

• Idaho is not likely to be nuclear soon

  In the third decade of this century Idaho Power may buy electricity from INL's "Next Generation" nuclear plant Hat tip to Dave Bradish and his team at NEI Nuclear Notes The Mountain Express out of Mountain Home, ID has a news note for June 2 that reports sometime in the third decade of this century Idaho Power will consider acquiring electricity from a planned " Next Generation "... Posted Jun 02 2008, 02:02 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: pebble bed, NGNP, Idaho Power

• DOE to fund NGNP ~ deep burn ~ reactor design

  Two reactor R&D efforts are linked in a single grant funding opportunity The Department of Energy isn't giving up on GNEP even if Congress has repeatedly sent a strong message it isn't going to fund the program at the levels requested by the agency. In a new twist DOE has linked nuclear reactor R&D design work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant and GNEP objectives to the the concept... Posted Apr 30 2008, 10:42 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: GNEP, NGNP

• How will Idaho lab build NGNP?

  Answer - two heads may be better than one The Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) is facing a formidable challenge with the release of a request for information (RFI) earlier this month by the Department of Energy (DOE). The government wants to hear from firms that think they can build the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ) which is most likely going to be a high temperature gas cooled reactor, possibly... Posted Apr 29 2008, 10:44 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, NGNP, Idaho National Laboratory

• DOE releases RFI and FOA for NGNP and GNEP

  Says the government will pay more for fewer acronyms The Department of Energy this week issued a request for information (RFI) targeting industry and university groups, and other interested parties, asking for input on a prototype, low-emission nuclear plant at its Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ). It also issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $15 million for GNEP R&D. There are... Posted Apr 17 2008, 10:38 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: GNEP, NGNP

• Idaho lab's long range vision for NGNP

  Comes up short on cash There is great profile of the plans by the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ) at the Energy Central web portal. It reports that the people planning the future of nuclear energy measure time in decades and time is running short. Philip C. Hildebrandt, who is the director of the Next Generation Nuclear Project has the job to build a... Posted Apr 08 2008, 06:41 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NGNP, next generation nuclear plant, Idaho National Laboratory

• 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

• NGNP Costs said to be high than expected

  The plant won't be built for another eight years Platts reports that demonstrating the commercial viability of a high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor capable of producing both electricity and hydrogen could cost between $3.8 billion and $4.3 billion, according to estimates from three contract teams competing in the US Department of Energy's Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ) project... Posted Dec 14 2007, 11:07 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Department of Energy, NGNP

• Summer is over - there's still some nuclear news

  August is a slow month, but there were a few nuclear issues Summer is a time for vacations and taking advantage of the fine weather. That's mostly what I did, so this is a long post that catches up on a lot of the nuclear news that took place anyway. Many of the links from news sources have expired so readers will hopefully excuse the lack of them in these reports. EnergySolutions Bids for USEC The... Posted Sep 08 2007, 10:45 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: PBMR, Utah legislature, USEC, Toshiba, Fluor, NGNP, Energy Solutions