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Toshiba of Japan will participate in Nuclear Innovation North America LLC, a new company formed by NRG Energy to promote the use of GE-Hitachi's Advanced Boiling Water Reactor in North America.

NRG Energy Inc. has partnered with Toshiba Corp. to create a new company to pursue new nuclear energy projects. Nuclear Innovation North America LLC will focus on “marketing, siting, developing, financing and investing in advanced design nuclear projects” in the United States and Canada, NRG Energy said...

GE-Hitachi has set up a project office to market Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWRs) in the USA. The move comes just weeks after Toshiba established a US company to do the same thing.

Japan's Toshiba has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for two Advanced Boiling Water Reactors at the South Texas Project.

BREAKING NEWS A GE Hitachi reactor should be built by Exelon at Victoria after all. The utility dropped the ESBWR design in November last year, but will now use the ABWR design instead.

Toshiba shocks San Antonio CPS Energy.  City Council postpones $400 million bond vote. The estimated cost of two new 1,350 MW ABWR reactors to be built by Toshiba for NRG at the South Texas Project (STP) rose by $4 billion this week.  According to a report in the San Antonio Express, the project...