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This is the third site selected in the firm’s search for a suitable location Alternative Energy Holdings Inc. ( OTC:AEHI ) announced Oct 20 it has selected a new site for its planned nuclear reactor in Idaho.  The site in is Payette County, Idaho, some 60 miles northwest of Boise and about five...

Government action is a necessary precursor to award of $40 billion in nuclear reactor construction The Wall Street Journal reports an independent nuclear regulatory body has been set up in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) under a new law that paves the way for up to $40 billion in new nuclear reactor...

Governor goes pro-nuclear and so do the people who want his job What is it about California that always twists what the rest of the  country takes for reality into a pretzel?  For more than three decades the state has banned the construction of new nuclear power plants. At the same time it...

CEO says he’s look at Idaho State Lands Over at the Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker has a piece that indicates there is more confusion about plans by Alternative Energy Holdings Inc. (AEHI) ( OTC:AEHI ) for a new nuclear reactor at a site near Mountain Home, ID , in Elmore County.  Barker...

Nuclear energy deal still too expensive for Ankara Russia turned up the heat on Turkey this week over a long  running and complex negotiations to build four nuclear reactors for a total of 4,800 MW of electricity generation.  None other than Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed up in...

Despite a chilly reception from Gov. Jay Nixon A committee of the Missouri House of Representatives voted 12-1  this week in favor of a bill ( HB 554 ) that would allow Ameren ( NYSE:AEE ) to recover construction costs of a new nuclear reactor at Callaway, MO, while it was being built. The St. Louis...

Minnesota and Wisconsin say climate change puts atomic energy back in play Farmers know about climate. That’s why the legislatures in two of the nation’s great farming states in the upper Midwest are taking a new look at nuclear energy.  Draft bills that would repeal decades old bans on new nuclear...

Developing nation said to be talking to Westinghouse Reuters reports Vietnam is negotiating with Westinghouse  to build the country's first nuclear power plants. The wire service cited state run news media from Hanoi. Vuong Huu Tan , Director of the Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute, told the...

Twin reactors in Texas are said to be on short list for loan guarantees NRG Energy said it would steam ahead with its plans for 2,700 MW to  be generated by two GE-Hitachi ABWR reactors for the South Texas Project ( STP ) units 3 & 4.  This is despite the fact the City of Austin, TX, which...

EDF will be the project manager (NucNet) A second European Pressurized Water Reactor ( EPR ) is to  be built in France, president Nicolas Sarkozy announced Jan 22. Construction of Areva’s 1,600 MW reactor is expected to start in 2012 at the existing Penly nuclear power plant site in northern France...

UAE signs nuclear agreement with US In one of its last official acts, the Bush Administration signed a  nuclear-cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates. The Wall Street Journal reported that the pact could help the UAE become the first Arab nation to develop a nuclear-power industry...

Legislative battle over nuclear energy unfolds in the ‘show me’ state Nuclear energy utility AmerenUE has finally left earth orbit and set sail for an uncharted region of the economic and political space seeking strange new supporters in a hostile universe.  A bill ( S.B.228 ) introduced in the...

Exelon and NRG face uncertainties for new nuclear builds in the lone star state No one outside of NRG ( NYSE:NRG ) really knows what it will cost to  build the 3rd and 4th units at the South Texas Project ( STP ), but that hasn’t stopped NRG, the New Jersey utility that is building them, from seeking...

Critics claim energy independence won’t be achieved with Russian reactors Turkish news media reports yet another slide off into the ditch for  the country’s troubled nuclear energy program.  After all but one of 13 potential bidders walked away from the byzantine project, the only company bidding...

Speeding up plant construction is the key to avoiding brownouts Between 2017 and 2025 the U.K. will close ten aging nuclear power  plants, a third of its total capacity, opening a major gap in electricity generation supply.  Even with the country’s aggressive plans to build new reactors, the...

Three dozen U.S. firms, and 60 executives, travel to Mumbai  for trade discussions The U.S. India Business Council concluded this week a historic trade mission to India to ink deals for nuclear fuel and reactor technologies.  The U.S. Department of Commerce officially sanctioned the trade mission...

Alberta energy project is moving to avoid environmental conflicts According to a report in the Calgary Herald, Bruce Power has sent a letter to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission withdrawing its application for a dual reactor, 2,200 MW, $6.2 billion nuclear power complex that it planned to build...

Utility asks NRC to stop reviews for Grand Gulf and River Bend Platts reports that Entergy has asked the NRC to suspend review  of the utility's two COL applications - one for Grand Gulf, MS , and the other for River Bend, LA .  According to Platts, Entergy asked the NRC to stop billing...

AECL would finance the deal with private sector firms Canadian Energy Minister Jack Keir said this week he will seek approval for two additional new nuclear reactors at Point Lepreau in New Brunswick province.  The atomic power plants would be built by Crown corporation Atomic Energy Limited Canada...

Lack of money for light water reactors impacts commercial development of advanced nuclear fuel concept The South African government's inability to fund conventional LWR reactors will significantly slow down development of the new pebble bed technology. The announcement by Eskom last week that it...

"It's too big. We can't do it," says the utility Another casualty of the world wide credit crunch in the nuclear  industry was record Friday Dec 5. Eskom, the troubled South African electric utility, canceled its plans to build two nuclear power plants worth $12 billion. Bloomberg...

Baby baby won't you please come back? South Texas Project asks City of Austin to reconsider NRG, the owner of the South Texas Project , is asking the City of  Austin to change its mind about its stake in the nuclear power plant.  Austin Energy now says it will reconsider and will spend...

Advanced reactor design is out of the running for Victoria, TX, site GE Hitachi's latest product offering, an "economic simplified  boiling water reactor" ( ESBWR ) was dropped this week from further consideration for Exelon's planned greenfield nuclear reactor site at Victoria...

Negotiations over cost tumbled by "financial turmoil" Ontario Power won't be making up its mind soon about who will  build a new nuclear power plant at Darlington.  A deadline for the decision of March 31, 2009, has been pushed into the indefinite future by "market turmoil"...

The state is a model for keeping financing costs low and investor confidence high Florida regulators on Oct 11 approved plans to allow the sunshine  state's two largest utilities to collect more than $600 million next year in costs for new nuclear plants expected to enter revenue service within...