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• COP15: Leaks, AREVA and Tree People

  Our impression reading the daily news wrap-ups about COP15 is that everyone is holding their breaths over the arrival of the world leaders next week and that this first week has more the trappings of a, um, conventional convention – that is, trade show displays, break-out meetings on different topics, people dressed in Styrofoam tree costumes giving out flyers – that kind of thing. --- Probably the... Posted Dec 09 2009, 01:30 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, AREVA, opinion, perspective, nuclear blogs, leak, tree, cop15, Conference of the Parties

• The Future, The Shifting Ground, and Bachmann

  Bob Metcalfe has an interesting futurist editorial in the Wall Street Journal: The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production. So far, there are five fission and two fusion start-ups... Posted Jun 24 2009, 06:12 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Toshiba, AREVA, Hitachi, GE

• AREVA Enters the Blogosphere

  NEI's former blog contributor, Jarret Adams, is one of the authors for AREVA's first blog . Welcome and best of luck! Hat tip to Idaho Samizdat . Read More... Posted Mar 05 2009, 07:05 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, blogging, social

• The Whole Energy Portfolio

  Investors Business Daily has an interesting editorial touting nuclear energy in terms of interest to their readers: the pocketbook. Until recently, there was no domestic capacity to manufacture the huge components needed to build nuclear reactors. Global nuclear giant Areva and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding are partnering to start building heavy nuclear components. The U.S. had very little enrichment... Posted Dec 19 2008, 02:53 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Energy, Northrop Grumman Corp.

• Areva, Northrop Grumman Deal Roundup

  Yesterday's announced deal between AREVA and Northrop Grumman to build a $363 million nuclear reactor manufacturing plant in Newport News, VA is getting a whole lot of media attention. The New York Times says Nuclear Power May Be in Early Stages of a Revival . ...Not since 1973 had anybody in the United States ordered a nuclear plant that was actually built, and the obstacles to a new generation... Posted Oct 24 2008, 10:54 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, Northrop Grumman Corp., Newport News

• Founding a Foundry

  One thing we've mentioned here a few times is that a nuclear renaissance is going to require some oomph from the steel industry if the parts necessary to build a plant are going to be built in the United States. Well, here it comes , via the, ahem, French: France's Areva SA said it is forming a joint venture with Northrop Grumman Corp. to build nuclear reactor vessels, steam generators and... Posted Oct 23 2008, 05:11 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, Virginia, Northrop Grumman Corp., Foundry

• The Warp Effect: WSJ on Buffett, Constellation and the Fate of the EPR

  The Wall Street Journal has a story about Warren Buffett's pending purchase of Constellation Energy and, particularly from our point of view, its UniStar subsidiary, a nuclear consortia that includes Electricite de France , AREVA and Bechtel . The WSJ has no idea how Buffett might proceed with its Unistar subsidiary: On Thursday, MidAmerican chief executive Greg Abel sounded more enthusiastic about... Posted Sep 26 2008, 04:40 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Bechtel, AREVA, EPR, Constellation Energy, Warren Buffett

• AREVA Affirms No Need to Restart MOX Tests

  Recently a pair of antinuclear groups issued a misleading press release calling in question the results of trials of MOX (mixed oxide) fuel lead test assemblies (LTAs) at Duke Energy’s Catawba nuclear power plant . The groups suggest that the tests failed—this is not true. The tests provided AREVA with a thorough understanding of the fuel’s performance before it is used on wider scale. There is no... Posted Aug 08 2008, 01:52 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, mox

• Animating the Issues

  AREVA has been notably good with their outreach ads. Here's an animated piece extolling the virtues of nuclear energy through the medium of two yakky fuel pellets. Perhaps a little static in the manner of much Flash animation, but a very nicely produced piece that hits its points without fuss. AREVA is a member of NEI, so this post could easily be construed as a bit of logrolling, but good is good... Posted Mar 27 2008, 04:14 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA

• 100 GW of New Nuclear from AREVA by 2030?

  That's what they're aiming for : Areva aims to build more than 100 gigawatts of new nuclear power capacity by 2030, one third of the 344 GW that the company expects to be developed around the world by that date, a spokeswoman said. AREVA's Evolutionary Power Reactor is 1.6 GW therefore 100 GW would equate to 63 new EPRs. Is that doable? Well, if we look back over the past 50 years, the... Posted Feb 27 2008, 12:42 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, EPR, New Nuclear Plants

• AREVA and Siemens Snag Bulgaria Contract

  Details from EarthTimes . Read More... Posted Jan 15 2008, 03:10 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, Siemens, Bulgaria

• Eskom Seeks Bids for New South African Reactors

  Eskom has invited AREVA and Westinghouse to submit bids . Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 12:47 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, AREVA, Westinghouse, Eskom

• NAM Blogger at AREVA Facility

  Kevin Smith, NAM 's director of research, is in France on a trip sponsored by NEI to visit AREVA's nuclear processing center at La Hague. Click here for more details. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:49 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA

• AREVA Signs Massive China Deal

  Details here at the Wall Street Journal . And others are beginning to notice. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:46 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, China, New Nuclear Plants

• AREVA to Build First EPR in U.S.

  Details from Marketwatch . Read More... Posted Nov 07 2007, 11:35 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: AREVA, EPR