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• Texas nuclear new build roundup

  Exelon files with NRC, Luminant coming up soon Texas is the heart of the nation's oil industry, but it is in the Lone Star State that new nuclear reactors are being planned at a pace which only a few years ago would have seemed like science fiction.  There is an enormous amount of activity in Texas, and it continues to rival China in terms of planned commitments to nuclear energy.  This... Posted Sep 13 2008, 01:07 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, Exelon, New Nuclear Plants, Luminant

• TVA's destiny revealed at Bellefonte - Part II

  It enters uncharted territory by asking NRC for reinstatement of the licenses for two unfinished nuclear reactors The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to  reinstate the licenses for two partially completed reactors at its Bellefonte site near Scottsboro, GA.  The Knoxville News reports the first-of-a-kind request could result in the restart... Posted Aug 31 2008, 12:00 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, Bellefonte, TVA, New Nuclear Plants

• NGNP Licensing Strategy

  NRC and DOE deliver report to Congress The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S.  Department of Energy (DOE) this week delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report . The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directed the agencies to jointly develop a strategy for licensing the NGNP demonstration plant.  The report to Congress explains that current... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:00 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, next generation nuclear plant, DOE

• Small reactors have NRC's attention

  Chairman Dale Klein speech says they're part of the "nuclear renaissance."  He has some advice for how to deal with their licensing issues. The drumbeat about a global nuclear renaissance drives  is giving some people a headache and that includes NRC chairman Dale Klein who complained about it at a conference by the same name in Alexandria, VA, last week.  While NRC's... Posted Jul 27 2008, 06:37 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, New Nuclear Plants, small reactors

• NRC gets first ISL uranium mining application

  Uranium recovery activity noted in Wyoming The dramatic rise in the price of uranium has stimulated new mining activities throughout the West and nowhere is this trend more visible than in Wyoming. The NRC received an application from Energy Metals to construct and operate a in-situ uranium recovery facility at Moore Ranch in Campbell County, Wyoming. The NRC said it is the first application for a... Posted Nov 02 2007, 08:40 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, energy metals, in-situ uranium leach, isl

• TVA files for two new reactors at Bellefonte

  And now for a really big show Anyone watching the nuclear energy industry this month must think it is on something of a roll. The Tennessee Valley Authority filed an application for a license to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors. The site is in Bellefonte, Alabama where it mothballed two reactor projects nearly two decades ago after investing billions of dollars. The TVA application... Posted Oct 30 2007, 10:09 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, Bellefonte, TVA, Dale Klein

• AEHI still "invisible" to NRC's radar screen

  NRC chairman - agency "not engaged" in licensing dialog with AEHI Idaho Statesman reporter Ken Dey spoke with NRC Chairman Dale Klein at a nuclear industry conference taking place in Boise, ID, this week. Dey asked Klein about Alternative Energy Holdings (AEHI) proposed AREVA EPR for a location on southwestern Idaho near Mountain Home AFB. Here's the dialog . . . Q: We have one nuclear plant proposed... Posted Sep 11 2007, 11:55 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, AEHI, Ken Dey, Idaho Statesmen

• NRC faces dust devils at Wyoming hearing

  "Generic EIS" on uranium mining gets low marks at kick-off hearing A public hearing called by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Capser, WY, on August 7th on in-situ uranium leaching and uranium milling turned out 120 people who had some questions about the process. NRC is trying to figure out how 14 new in-situ uranium leaching proposals will affect the environment. Wyoming landowners and two Wyoming... Posted Aug 10 2007, 11:14 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Wyoming, uranium in-situ, NRC licensing