December, 2010

As we close out 2010, we believe that the significant events are the ones still to come. Over on Idaho Samizdat, Dan Yurman has already provided his 2011 outlook. We want to hear what you think or would like to see as the big news in 2011. Please post your thoughts and comments on the [...] ...read more

In a major step for domestic energy security, the U.S. Department of Energy offered a conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan guarantee to facilitate financing of AREVA’s Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility under development near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Read the news of the announcement here. ...read more

AREVA signed agreements for development of two Clean Energy Park projects this year, including one in Fresno, Calif., and another in New Brunswick, Canada. AREVA and Fresno Nuclear Energy Group announced an initial agreement in for Clean Energy Park at the beginning of the year and strengthened the partnership...

In October AREVA was awarded a contract by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for engineering and development work toward the potential completion of the Bellefonte Unit 1 nuclear power plant in northern Alabama. Read the news here. ...read more

Adding to AREVA’s renewable energy portfolio of offshore wind and bioenergies, AREVA acquired U.S. solar company Ausra in February. The California-based company is a provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electricity generation and industrial steam production. More information...

From all of us at the AREVA North America: Next Energy Blog, we want to wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday. ...read more

In March, the construction of the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina hit three million safe work hours. The project continues with a strong record as an excellent example of nuclear construction that is on-time and on-budget. More updates are available on MOX TV. ...read more

By Jarret Adams AREVA announced a contract today worth approximate $525 million with Trianel, an group of German electric utilities, to supply 40 five megawatt (MW) M5000 turbines for the Borkum West II offshore wind farm located in the North Sea. Situated about 28 miles off the northern coast of the...

AREVA presented a virtual tour of our La Hague Recycling Facility providing a closer look at AREVA’s decades of experience in safely and economically recycling used nuclear fuel. If you did not get to see the video the first time, check it out here. ...read more

On Tuesday, December 21, the Olympic Region Clear Air Agency staff recommended approval of the Notice of Construction permit for the ADAGE Mason County biomass facility in Shelton, Wash. This decision is a significant step for the planned nominal 65 Megawatt woody biomass project validating that the...

A conversion facility at the DOE’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio began operations this year. Constructed by a joint venture of AREVA, EnergySolutions and Burns and Roe, the facility uses a proprietary AREVA process to perform conversion. The partnership is also working on a sister plant in Paducah, Ky., which...

AREVA successfully delivered of the second replacement reactor vessel closure head to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant on July 19, 2010. More information about this successfully delivery can be found in the press release here : ...read more

The year started off with a strong affirmation from President Obama during his State of the Union address by saying: “But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this...

Facing climate change issues, utilities are looking for long-term strategies to optimize their investments and manage uncertainties – like fossil fuel costs and CO2 price. This goal is reachable with an optimal combination of AREVA’s nuclear and renewable energy technologies. To learn more about the...

By Jarret Adams At the Energy Innovation 2010 (Twitter hashtag #EI2010) conference today in Washington, D.C., discussion focused on ways to spur new ideas in energy in the United States and move our nation away from fossil fuels while spurring innovative ideas that will create jobs in this country. The...

Today AREVA celebrated the inauguration of a new state-of-the-art centrifuge enrichment facility. As the Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility planned for Idaho is still on the drawing board, its sister facility, George Besse II plant in France honored a major project milestone. More than 100 customers from...

The talk about nuclear energy recently has been only one thing: BIG. This week, nuclear energy got BIG backing from the administration with Secretary of Energy Chu and White House energy advisor Browner coming out in support of a Clean Energy Standard that involves nuclear. (Read here.) BIG is also the...

In the recent issue of the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) Electric Perspectives, Alan Hanson, AREVA’s executive vice-president for technologies and used fuel management, has an informative and noteworthy piece about one of the most well-known challenges to expanding nuclear energy; how best to manage...

By Jarret Adams Among the ideas that emerged from the Nuclear Energy Summit yesterday was the idea of a Clean Energy Standard that would call for a certain percentage of renewable, nuclear energy and clean coal generation at a future date. Yesterday’s conference was hosted by the centrist group Third...

Tomorrow in Washington, the Third Way and the Idaho National Laboratory will host a bipartisan forum on the future of nuclear energy. Some of the A-listers scheduled to participate include Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, White House Energy Czar Carol Browner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregory...

By Jarret Adams AREVA signed a series of major agreements today with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) for the construction of two EPR reactors, with options for four more, and a 25-year supply of fuel. The agreements between AREVA and NPCIL cover conditions for the contracts, industrial...

Creating Jobs? Investing in energy infrastructure in the United States? Strengthening the nuclear supply chain? Today in Idaho, AREVA answered yes to all of these questions while hosting a Suppliers Day Event in Idaho Falls. The event in Idaho was organized to help identify and certify new partner companies...

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu spoke decisively on the rapid growth of clean energy industries in China and other countries. Chu compared this growth to the outpacing of the United States by the Soviet Union with the launch of Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting...