August, 2009

We just want to share some of the discussion that has been taking place in U.S. news this week: From “Nuclear is Good Investment for Economy, Environment and Energy Security” by Bernard Weinstein in the San Antonio Express-News “A decade ago, objections from environmentalists were the principal...

Rob Pavey of The Augusta Chronicle coined the project “a new mission for an old plant,” as the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility, currently under construction by Shaw AREVA MOX Services on the Department of Energy Savannah River Site, becomes an integral part of a global effort for nuclear...

Here’s an informative video that takes you inside the world’s #1 facility for reprocessing used nuclear fuel. The AREVA La Hague industrial complex, located just west of Cherbourg, has recycled more than 21,000 tons of used fuel since its inception, reducing the need for natural uranium and...

We love to write about things like this!  Congratulations to our colleagues at Shaw AREVA MOX Services, who raised more than $26,000 for children’s charities at this year’s annual Celebrity Waiter Night in Aiken, S.C.  The money will be used to provide daycare, meals, and help to at-risk...

A recent report from Bloomberg.com highlighted the current state of affairs concerning spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. The report specifically focused on a recent study, which concluded that “storing nuclear waste above ground at atomic power plants for as long as six decades may be the best temporary...

For nearly half a century, non-proliferation treaties and other multinational collaborations have helped facilitate the safe expansion of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. But some wonder whether the benefits of the so-called “nuclear renaissance” are worth the increased risks of the technology...

A recent Clean Skies TV report tackled the question that many nuclear opponents see as the downside to the reliable, CO2-free energy produce by nuclear power plants; What about the cost? The report by Tyler Suiters explores how the new nuclear power plants are not necessarily a burden to the taxpayer...

UVAToday, a University of Virginia publication, includes a feature on the partnership between its School of Engineering and Applied Science and AREVA. The partnership includes dedicated funding for educational and research programs, and provides an excellent opportunity for tomorrow’s engineers to gain...

People are talking about nuclear energy, and as Lisa Peterson describes from her post “A Nuclear Charlotte, North Carolina” on Clean Energy Insight, it’s all about economic growth and jobs. Nuclear power is on the brink of a renaissance. New nuclear power plants are planned to be built; which...

In an editorial from the August 16, 2009 The News-Star, Professor Emeritus Ron Thompson opines on the value of nuclear energy to meet an increasing global appetite for energy: Global energy demands are increasing exponentially. Burning more fossil fuel is not a viable solution. An inescapable fact of...

Over the past several years AREVA has steadily increased its diversity in the workforce, and minority hires are playing a role in recruitment efforts. The increase is due to more aggressive recruitment efforts on college campuses and AREVA’s sponsorship of conferences geared towards minority college...

AREVA prides itself on being the leader in the nuclear energy cycle, and the company’s success has caught the attention of Time Magazine. In a piece posted to Time’s online section from August 7, AREVA was identified as “the first place that countries or power companies go when looking for all of their...

Power Engineering’s most recent issue included a great piece on the need to rethink the situation for recycling nuclear fuel in the United States. The article by Senior Editor Nancy Spring points out the key benefits that come from recycling used nuclear fuel. “In ballpark figures, it takes around 30...

Here’s another great question on recycling that was submitted by Max Epstein: I have heard the argument (including by at least one professor with a related PhD) that the benefits of reprocessing in terms of reducing volume of waste overstate the real benefits, because the reprocessed fuel comes out hotter...

by Kelsey Massie, AREVA Corporate Communications Intern Most high school students dread the approaching of summer’s end; however, for 10 Lynchburg, VA area high school students, the end of summer is exactly what they have been waiting for. These 10 students are AREVA’s summer high school apprentices...

Yesterday, an editorial in the Aiken Standard spotlighted the important work taking place at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. “The Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at SRS is to turn some 34 tons of weapons grade plutonium into a component for fuel rod assemblies that will...

by Katherine Berezowskyj It couldn’t have been said better: “Investing in new nuclear power plants, which produce electricity 24 hours a day and seven days a week, can be a major growth engine for our economy,” while also being an energy source that is “tailor-made for addressing climate change...

by Gilles Clement, Vice-President of Recycling Technologies, and Dr. Alan Hanson, Executive Vice President of Technology and Used-Fuel Management Today we’d like to highlight a thought-provoking question about recycling that was asked recently on the AREVA North America blog. Randal Leavitt asked...

Today in Virginia we at AREVA celebrated the grand opening of a new, $6.5 million Chemistry and Materials Center (CMC). It’s an 8,000 square foot, two-story building at our facility in Campbell County. Here several labs will work and provide key services to help AREVA’s customers with their continuing...

by Jarret Adams With the second anniversary of construction work at MOX project in South Carolina, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) issued a press release announcing that it has launched some new media tools for keeping people up to speed on the project. The MOX project also has a...

From 80 + 1’s experts’ debate on nuclear energy vs. coal energy: Nuclear has about the same carbon footprint as wind but is astronomically more compact and efficient and operates at 90 percent capacity (coal: 53 percent capacity; wind: 34 percent). Nuclear waste is therefore tiny in volume...