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• Will the nuclear renaissance start with small reactors?

  A panel of vendors makes the case for it at the ANS winter meeting It is the burden of all senior executives when serving on panel discussions at industry conferences to walk a fine line between being interesting and engaging with a skeptical audience on one hand and on the other hawking the daylights out of their product with shameless disregard for anyone's desire not to sit through a commercial... Posted Nov 21 2009, 01:22 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance, nuclear blogs, small reactors, ANS annual meeting, small and medium sized reactors

• TVA’s new nuclear deals

  By 2020 the government utility will generate 50% of its power from nuclear reactors The fullest expression of the nuclear renaissance to date has been  in 18 license applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) mostly by commercial utilities. In the middle of the pile, the  Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) is developing an interesting track record not only in bringing moth balled... Posted Oct 04 2009, 05:15 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance, TVA, capacity, license, applications, Tennessee Valley Authority

• Italy’s nuclear renaissance becomes real

  Next steps – select sites and build Under a new law now approved by its parliament this week, Italy  will in the next six months identify candidate sites for new nuclear reactors.  The law also requires the government to set up a regulatory authority to manage the process of building the plants and administering the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel. Energy Minister Claudio Scajola (left... Posted Jul 12 2009, 01:02 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance, Italy, parliament

• Italy’s nuclear renaissance blooms

  France and Russia compete for market share. Neither Rome nor reactors are built in a day. In an exclusive post at the Energy Collective this week, I explore the progress of the nuclear renaissance in Italy. Italy is looking for energy independence, and like many of its politicians, has taken up with two new companions - France and Russia - both of which are promising a new life with nuclear energy... Posted Apr 19 2009, 03:11 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance, Italy, Europe

• France to build 2nd EPR

  EDF will be the project manager (NucNet) A second European Pressurized Water Reactor ( EPR ) is to  be built in France, president Nicolas Sarkozy announced Jan 22. Construction of Areva’s 1,600 MW reactor is expected to start in 2012 at the existing Penly nuclear power plant site in northern France.  The new unit is expected to enter revenue service in 2017. It will be the fifth EPR construction... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:32 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Electricite de France, nuclear, Nuclear energy, nuclear renaissance, nuclear reactors, EPR, New Nuclear Plants

• Did the nuclear renaissance bloom in 2008?

  The answer is yes with some caveats In 2008 the nuclear renaissance finally began to bloom. In a six week period spanning September and October of this year, six plants have filed COL applications with the NRC and seven filed in the preceding six months for a total of 13 applications and 19 reactors. Add to that the five applications and eight reactors that filed in 2007 and you don't just have... Posted Dec 18 2008, 10:34 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance

• India enters the nuclear renaissance

  Change occurs in the blink of an eye and also over a lifetime Two months ago when Nitin Pai, the editor of Pagati, a political journal in India, asked me to write an article on that nation's entry into the nuclear renaissance, I had no idea it would publish in the context of international turmoil over the terrorist attacks which took place in Mumbai last week. The most immediate impact in terms... Posted Dec 02 2008, 09:30 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: India, nuclear renaissance

• Partly cloudy with a chance of cheeseburgers

  Will the global financial meltdown turn the nuclear renaissance into a patty melt? Everyone is watching the global financial meltdown that has tied  the investment community up in knots.  Top banking executives are on the hot seat with Congress and probably feel like they're in the middle of a pan of frying onions.  In some cases it may be justified, but the future is what concerns... Posted Oct 12 2008, 07:12 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear renaissance

• Nuclear renaissance at WNA London meeting

  429 reactors operating globally, 25 under construction, 76 planned and 162 proposed Reuters has a report on the opening speeches at the World Nuclear Association annual conference held in London this week. The nuclear power industry said on Thursday it provided a clean alternative to fossil fuels and a global warming crisis, saying environmentalist concerns about nuclear waste and atomic security were... Posted Sep 08 2007, 11:21 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: World Nuclear Association, nuclear renaissance