August, 2010

According to an Associated Press article published today, U.S. electric utilities are looking to buy reactors “off-the-shelf,” choosing from a few different reactor designs. The article focuses on Southern Company’s new reactor at Plant Vogtle under development in Georgia. While the Vogtle project uses...

“AREVA supports an integrated approach that ensures options including recycling, interim storage, and disposal,” Executive V.P. Dr. Alan Hanson today told the members of a Blue Ribbon Commission subcommittee. “Commercial recycling of used nuclear fuel has a long, successful, safe and secure history....

Highly recommend that you follow the weekly nuclear blog carnival as it shifts from blogger to blogger each Friday. This is the 16th carnival and this week’s it’s at Dan’s blog. ...read more

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its draft safety evaluation report on the MOX (mixed oxide) Fuel Fabrication Facility, a project under construction at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Shaw AREVA MOX Services, a joint venture of the two leading energy companies, is building the...

By Hector Sanchez, Executive Director LCLAA The risks of climate change due to excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are significant for everyone, and are an even greater concern for working Latino families.  The majority of Latinos are concentrated in urban areas in 15 states that account for 86.5...

Bringing industry and medicine together in the battle against cancer, AREVA Med has announced another important milestone to continue this fight. AREVA Med, an AREVA subsidiary, is dedicated to developing medical grade lead-212 isotopes to be used in promising Radioimmunotherapy. Lead-212 is a rare radioactive...

By Jarret Adams Over at the Huffington Post today, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club has dished up another attack on the economics of nuclear energy that goes light on the facts and heavy on the rhetoric. Contrary to Mr. Pope’s wishes, nuclear energy’s revival already is well under way with more than 50 new...

We noticed with some surprise, this article in the Washington Post this week.. It reports: “Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry’s standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.”...

Congratulations to the University of Florida and the University of Tennessee as the recipient of a $150,000 grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in support of their Nuclear Reactor Instrumentation and Control and Digital Implementation projects. The University of Florida and the University of...

By Jarret Adams An article in this week’s Science magazine, “Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste?” (subscription required) raises some very interesting questions about managing nuclear waste in the context of the nuclear renaissance now under way. Beyond recounting the history and current state of U.S. waste...

We blogged in the past about how encouraging it was to see discussion online between folks on nuclear power that was genuinely good debate and discussion, and that a great example was this exchange between blogger Rod Adams and Scientific American writer and blogger John Hogan. Well Hogan writes on his...

by Patti CasePublic and Regulatory Affairs manager for Green Diamond Resource Company Welcome to the Olympic Peninsula, where Green Diamond Resource Company owns vast acres of timberland. Our company has its roots here (pun intended); 120 years ago Sol Simpson founded Simpson Logging Company in the heart...

In another important step to deliver renewable energy and jobs to Washington state, ADAGE, the biopower joint venture between AREVA and Duke Energy, announced today that it has signed its first long-term biomass fuel supply agreement with Green Diamond Resource Company, who owns and manages timberland...

Everyone should definitely go check out David Bradish’s excellent posting at the progressive political blog Dailykos… Here is an excerpt: Last week here at Daily Kos, the Nuclear Information Resource Service published an ill-informed essay composed of inaccuracies and wild assumptions about...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a public meeting in Boise, Idaho, on Aug. 9 to hear from the public, elected officials and other stakeholders on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the AREVA Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility under development near Idaho Falls. The NRC held this meeting...

In a letter yesterday, the Western Governors’ Association, representing the governors of 19 states and three US-flag Pacific islands, called on the Obama Administration to “develop a clear and unambiguous federal biomass policy,” saying that “many of the issues presented remain...

In an opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post today, Slate columnist, Nina Shen Rastogi asks “What are nuclear energy’s green credentials?” And after discussing the issues, Rastogi concludes:
 “The Lantern doesn’t find herself particularly freaked out by atomic energy. The long...

In a recent piece by the Christian Science Monitor, “Global Warming Heats up a Nuclear Energy Renaissance,” the article examined the American context energy and why nuclear power is an attractive option. One key point mentioned is that the majority of the general American public views nuclear energy...

If you have not read it yet, we would like to spotlight the new blog by the U.S. Department of Energy. With the kick-off post from Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, he describes how the blog is “a first for us and part of our commitment to achieving the level of transparency, engagement, and [...] .....

AREVA Solar’s VP of Sales Jayesh Goyal talks with Jennifer Runyon, Renewable Energy World, about AREVA’s investment in CSP technology that has resulted in a better balance sheet for the company and better bankability for projects. ...read more

Another major announcement made by AREVA today that underscores the growth and future of renewable energy generation. AREVA and Bolognesi Participacoes, through its subsidiary Hidrotérmica, a Brazilian independent power producer, have signed a master agreement to modernize cogeneration units in 10 sugarcane...