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Love Rod Adams’ recent post on how “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” is a saying that is “good for Aluminum, good for Uranium.” As his posts often are, it’s a very well thought through and well written response to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy’s recent stance...

By Jarret Adams Amid the many benefits that America’s 104 nuclear power plants provide, increased energy security is rarely mentioned. It is perhaps obscured by the fact that nuclear energy is by far the nation’s largest source of low-carbon electricity. People often talk about the reliability of U.S...

Interest is growing on for the development of recycling in the United States, AREVA Inc. CEO Jacques Besnainou told a roomful of reporters yesterday at a breakfast sponsored by the Energy Daily in Washington, D.C. Besnainou said that talks with U.S. utilities have “accelerated” during the past few months...

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future holds today its final public meeting before issuing draft recommendations for managing used nuclear fuel. One of their major considerations in shaping the policy of our energy future will be to decide whether to strategically view the 60,000...

Nearly one year has passed since AREVA debuted the virtual tour of its La Hague recycling facility in the Normandy region of France. At the Waste Management conference in Phoenix yesterday, I had the opportunity to do “vitual” virtual tour for conference attendees, explaining the making of...

S.C. Sens. Graham, DeMint Support Idea of Recycling Speaking before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future on Friday January 7, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) expressed their support for recycling nuclear fuel and said that developing this capability at the...

Last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its final Safety Evaluation Report for the MOX (mixed oxide) Fuel Fabrication Facility. Currently under construction on the Savannah River Site, the MOX Facility is a Department of Energy program to construct a facility that will convert former...

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...

The International Energy Agency describes energy security as “the uninterrupted physical availability at a price which is affordable, while respecting environment concerns.” As the world become comparatively smaller with more people and fewer natural resources, the topic of energy security is more and...

Jan Phillips, AREVA Federal Services I had the opportunity recently to visit AREVA’s French facilities with members of AREVA’s grassroots outreach organization, the Community Advisory Council. The Council was established to provide nuclear educational opportunities to members of the African-American...

By Robert W. Gee, President Gee Strategies, LLC Our visit began with a tour of the used nuclear fuel recycling AVEVA facilities in La Hague in the Normandy Region of France, followed by a tour EDF Flamanville 3 site to see the construction of the third and newest EPR™ reactor slated for completion in...

By Stephanie Jones, President, Stephanie Jones Strategies, LLC Before October 2009, had someone told me that I would one day stand on top of nuclear waste, I would have been horrified!  And the scary picture that came to mind would have involved a hazmat suit and a terrified expression. Yet, here I was...

By David Jones, Vice President, Used Fuel Management Recycling used fuel from America’s nuclear power plants, using technology available in the near term, represents a solid option for the United States. As we have stated before, recycling nuclear fuel is a proven solution that makes waste management...

By Jarret Adams About a dozen members of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future yesterday toured the Department of Energy’s Hanford site near Richland, Wash. This panel, which is charged with developing a recommendation on managing the nation’s nuclear waste, heard testimony from local...

We would like to highlight the “Energy on Trial” project. This is a documentary that “tackles a subject as dear and essential to us as the air we breathe and the nourishment we require. Without energy, we are doomed. But the way much of it is produced is terminally damaging to our environment, and to...

By Jarret Adams In an effort to green up the debate on recycling nuclear fuel, several anti-nuclear activists have decided recycle some old misinformation about the topic. In fact, recycling nuclear fuel has some distinct advantages to the once-through approach proposed in the U.S. and deserves consideration...

By Jarret Adams As a group of 16 utilities and the Nuclear Energy Institute filed suit to stop payment of Nuclear Waste Fund fees, questions and opportunities again are emerging as to how the U.S. manages used nuclear fuel. The companies argue that, after taking the Yucca Mountain repository off the...

By Jarret Adams AREVA announced today its contract to supply recycled mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel to the Japanese utility Hokkaido Electric Power Company for use at its Tomari 3 nuclear plant. According to the agreement, AREVA will manufacture MOX fuel assemblies using recycled material at its MELOX facility...

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Today, AREVA hosted live a virtual tour of the La Hague Recycling facility in Normandy, France. The tour provided a closer look at AREVA’s decades of experience in safely and economically recycling used nuclear fuel. The discussion described how nuclear fuel recycling simplifies nuclear waste management...

We want to congratulate Shaw AREVA MOX Services for its achievement of a record 3 million consecutive safe work hours. The MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina has already completed the construction of two buildings totaling almost 95,000 square feet and are working on the 500,000 square foot...

By Jarret Adams As the new Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future begins its work this week, it is faced with an interesting situation. Companies have filed applications to build 26 new reactors in the United States and many more are under consideration. Meanwhile, the Department of Energy...

Following-up on Gallup’s results that support for nuclear power is at an all-time high, a recent study from market research firm TNS Sofres looks at opinions on the topic of recycling used nuclear fuel. Presented as part of AREVA’s International Recycling Day in February, the study “Nuclear energy and...

Starting today, the AREVA North America Next Energy Blog will host a week of posts exploring the topic of recycling used nuclear fuel. To kick off our “Recycling Week” we have two great videos about AREVA’s recycling activities.  The first clip is from the Discovery Channel Program, “The Green Room...

On Feb. 13, the Discovery Channel aired an episode of “The Green Room,” hosted by John Holden which provided a great look at AREVA’s La Hague facility and the process of recycling used nuclear fuel. Check you the clip below that features AREVA Executive V.P. Alan Hanson as he walks...