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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1 million to the NGNP Industry Alliance Limited for a 50/50 cost shared contract (plus follow-on options) to continue business and economic analysis for using HTGR technologies and expanding the nuclear energy footprint from electricity production into the process...

Holtec Releases Statement on DOE’s Small Modular Reactor Award Decision Holtec has released the following statement: We respect the Department of Energy's (DOE) decision to make only one award at this time from four applications it received in May of this year for the Small Modular Reactor...

As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to deploy every available source of American energy, the Energy Department today announced an award to support a new project to design, license and help commercialize small modular reactors (SMR) in the United States. This award follows...

L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has won an order to supply a human factors simulator to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) located in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The INL is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Energy Alliance. The project is effective immediately, and the simulator...

The Saltstone Facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have restarted operations following a nine-month planned improvement outage. The facilities process and dispose of decontaminated salt solution, reducing the risk of potential contamination in the environment. Improvements to the facilities...

Bechtel Responds to DOE Internal Memo Regarding Safety of Waste Treatment Plant Design Bechtel responded to a memo that questions the company’s ability to safely design the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) , also known as the Vit Plant. The facility will treat 56 million gallons...

NuScale Power has submitted its proposal to participate in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Modular Reactor Funding Opportunity to accelerate the deployment of small modular reactors, according to a Monday release. "Our approach offers DOE a plant with innovative new safety features and...

Westinghouse Electric Company and the Missouri Electric Alliance led by Ameren Missouri today announced the formation of a utility participation group called the NexStart SMR Alliance. The Alliance is a consortium of current and prospective nuclear plant owners and operators and includes cooperative...

USEC Inc. announced yesterday that they have entered into a multi-party arrangement with Energy Northwest, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) to extend uranium enrichment operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion...

Construction is behind at Southern Co's Plant Vogtle in Georgia and the company has entered a dispute over who should pay for $400 million in unanticipated costs, utility executives said Wednesday. Southern initially planned on finishing the construction of its first new reactor in April of 2016...

The Executive Board of Energy Northwest voted Thursday to spend $711 million to buy fuel to supply its Columbia nuclear power plant . While the fuel will not be used until 2021 to 2028, the company believes it is in a unique position to get a below-market price for fuel and potentially stabilize fuel...

USEC announced that its American Centrifuge project for uranium enrichment has surpassed one million hours of machine run-time in its Lead Cascade test program, according to a Friday release. “One million hours of run-time is a testament to the robustness of this leading-edge technology and...

Southern Company today reported first quarter 2012 earnings of $368 million - or 42 cents a share - compared with earnings of $422 million - or 50 cents a share - in the first quarter of 2011, according to a release that cited the mild winter as one reason for the decline. "Despite the effects...

According to a Tuesday release, Gen4 Energy (previously Hyperion Power) will not pursue the DOE's Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), designed to establish cost-shared agreements with private industry to support the design and licensing of SMRs . Gen4 will continue to work under the Memorandum...

Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri have entered into an agreement to respond collaboratively to the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for developing and licensing the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR). Under the terms of the agreement, Ameren Missouri...

Today in Washington, the Department of Energy is sponsoring their Small Modular Reactor Industry Day at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel , where DOE representatives will interface in person about the department's Cost-Sharing Program for Small Modular Reactors. The cost-sharing initiative represents...

In a step designed to accelerate the deployment of modular, scalable nuclear technology and boost economic development, NuScale Power LLC, and NuHub, an economic development initiative in Columbia, SC, will work together to pursue a small modular reactor project (SMR) at the Savannah River Site in South...

Holtec has released information regarding its agreement with the Department of Energy to build its small modular reactor at the Savannah River Site (SRS). "We are pleased to announce that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between our wholly owned subsidiary SMR, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy...

New Funding Opportunity Announcement Will Support SMR Design and Licensing for Widespread Commercial Use The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the first step toward manufacturing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in the United States, demonstrating the Administration’s commitment...

At 1:23pm on December 20, 1951, Argonne National Laboratory director Walter Zinn scribbled into his log book, “Electricity flows from atomic energy. Rough estimate indicates 45 kw.” At that moment, scientists from Argonne and the National Reactor Testing Station watched four light bulbs glow...

USEC Inc. announced yesterday that discussions are ongoing between the Company, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Congress regarding the American Centrifuge project. The American Centrifuge project seeks to deploy an innovative technology developed by DOE and improved by USEC in recent years...

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Safety and Ecology Holdings Corporation (SEC) from Homeland Security Capital Corporation (Homeland). Under the terms of the agreement, Perma-Fix will pay Homeland approximately $24.5 million consideration...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today issued a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the management and operation of the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant, with an option for phase in of Tritium Operations performed at the Savannah River Site. The draft RFP also includes...

A federal court ruled last Friday to award Energy Northwest more than $48.7 million in damages for the construction and licensing of a used fuel storage area at Columbia Generating Station. The ruling came nearly five years after the court determined the U.S. Department of Energy was in breach of contract...

“I agree with the recommendation to include facilities at Hanford, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos as part of this effort and I will continue leading efforts in Congress to authorize preservation activities. Anyone who has toured B Reactor knows it provides a real sense of what it might have been like...