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• NRG’s Recent Cost Estimate Increases for STP 3&4 Due to a Weaker Dollar?

  By now I’m sure most readers here have heard that NRG’s cost estimates to build two new reactors at South Texas Project increased around $4 billion just recently. Apparently quite a bit of the increase was due to a weaker dollar. From the Wall Street Journal : Dollar weakness helped drive up cost estimates for two new reactors NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) is planning in Texas with Toshiba Corp. An NRG executive... Posted Dec 18 2009, 10:45 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Toshiba, South Texas Project, NRG, reactor, Nuclear, STP, estimates, cost

• NRG Files License Applications with NRC for New Reactors at the South Texas Project

  My apologies for the lack of posts today, as I was down on Capitol Hill this morning for the press event announcing NRG's license application with NRC to build an additional two reactors at the site of the South Texas Project . For more details directly from NRG, click here . I was at the event with my video camera, so I should have some footage to share later this afternoon. Congratulations to... Posted Sep 25 2007, 01:35 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: New Nuclear Plant, License Applications, South Texas Project, NRC, NRG

• Looking at NRG and New Nuclear in Texas

  Another diarist at DailyKos (not our friend N Nadir) drove 80 miles to attend a public hearing on NRG's potential plans for new nuclear build in Texas . He sounds bullish on nuclear energy: Expanding electricity capacity in Texas from nuclear, wind, and potentially in the future, solar, while pushing hard for conservation is our only hope for a fossil fuel phase-out. Not only are these measures... Posted Jul 02 2007, 03:50 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NRG

• Toshiba Close to Deal With NRG on Texas Reactors

  Details from Reuters . Read More... Posted Jun 27 2007, 09:00 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Toshiba, NRG