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Thoughts on the DOE Loan Guarantee Program

The Department of Energy is moving forward with its clean energy Loan Guarantee program. In a press release last week, DOE announced that it had received applications from 17 companies to build 14 nuclear power plants totaling 21 new units and almost 29,000 megawatts of new electrical capacity. In total...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Ten tons of chickens, five tons of truck

The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program is overloaded In an old joke told to me by a man who made a living clearing farmers' fields of tree stumps with dynamite, a truck is driving down the street of a small town and something unusual happens every time it comes to a stop light...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-05-2008
DoE takes stock of nuclear loan guarantees

The US Department of Energy has 14 nuclear power projects to consider in its loan guarantee program. Their combined value of $188 billion is ten times what the DoE has allocated.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2008
A plan to license NGNP

The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project took another step forward on 15 August when the US Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission submitted a joint licensing plan for the advanced reactor.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008
NGNP Licensing Strategy

NRC and DOE deliver report to Congress The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report . The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directed the agencies to jointly develop a strategy...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
Moab tailings will move by rail

The government will ship 16 million tons of waste 30 miles. Within the next 10 years approximately 12 million cubic yards of the MOAB uranium mill tailings will take a final journey of just 30 miles and end a disturbing episode in the history of the West. This week the Department of...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-10-2008
U.K. & U.S. grapple with investments in national nuclear labs

The reality is new nuclear R&D is not cheap or easy The U.K. announced this week that it will charter and fund a new national nuclear laboratory (NNL) at a cost of L$2 billion ($4 billion US at current rates). In the U.S. the Department of Energy worried out loud how it will "re-establish...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-26-2008
US solicits bids for loan guarantees on nuclear construction

The US Department of Energy has invited applications for a total of up to $30.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy, nuclear and front-end nuclear power facility projects.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008
Idaho signs new nuclear waste cleanup agreement

It removes a threat to the Snake River aquifer from transuranic wastes Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter (left) stepped into history this week joining former Idaho governors Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt by signing a ground breaking cleanup agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. ...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008
House Committee erases GNEP from '09 budget

Prospects are uncertain in the Senate The House Appropriations Committee voted this week to zero out funding in FY2009 for the Department of Energy's ill-fated and much maligned Global Nuclear Energy Program ( GNEP ). This is a repeat of last year's action by the House which kicked GNEP...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-28-2008

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