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Nuclear renewal spurs demand for engineers

From Business Week By RICHARD RICHTMYER TROY, N.Y. Jackie Young was always good at math and science, but when she started college she never figured she'd end up pursuing a career in nuclear energy. Then professors at the University of Tennessee's nuclear engineering department briefed her and...

Posted to Nuclear Careers (Forum) by Highrad on 10-06-2008
Hutton out of UK nuclear new build

Government shuffle creates a new agency responsible for energy and climate change John Hutton, the UK's tireless advocate for new nuclear power plants, is out of the business. He's been shifted to the Defense ministry and replaced by Ed Miliband (right) who heads up a new department...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-05-2008
Who's on First?

Can anyone make up their mind about new nuclear builds? The future of the nuclear industry can easily be understood by two competing paradigms as laid out by the New York Times on Sept 24. The newspaper reported "there are two opposing viewpoints on expanding nuclear power." One is that...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-28-2008
Nuclear new build roundup for September 27, 2008

Hits & misses with financial worries in the bulls eye It was a mostly worrisome week for the global nuclear industry with America's financial troubles taking center stage in terms of media coverage. A splash effect on future funding for new nuclear power plants isn't out of the...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
Construction on Khmelnitsky 3 and 4 from 2010

[Reuters, 22 September] Work to build two new nuclear power reactors at Khmelnitsky in Ukraine will start in 2010, a government minister said while visiting the site. The units are expected to be V-320 model 1000 MWe VVER pressurized water reactors, the first of which would enter operation by the end...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
Microsoft veteran boots up nuclear reactor R&D

A firm focused on patent licensing wants to design a new kind of reactor Intellectual Ventures of Bellevue, WA, is a high energy operation that gets its revenue primarily from scooping up patents and then enforcing its rights to royalties when others want to license them. When other firms infringe...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-20-2008
Two more for Comanche Peak

Luminant Power goes with dual 1,700 MW Mitsubishi ABWRs Texas-based Luminant Power submitted a combined construction permit-operating license (COL) application to the NRC Sept 19 for two new Mitsubishi APWRs at Comanche Peak. [ media kit ] Luminant is the third company to file for new nuclear...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Two COLs in one day

Two applications have been submitted to the US nuclear regulator for combined construction and operating licences (COLs) for potential new reactors in Texas and Michigan. They total some 6500 MWe of potential new nuclear capacity.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Detroit Edison files for Fermi III

The utility has a lock on the rate base which will pay for construction DTE Energy ( NYSE:DTE ) CEO Anthony Earley, Jr. (left), is an executive who believes in his product and the economic future of his customers. His company's commitment is so strong that this week it filed an application...

Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
AEHI Agrees to Negotiate Contract for Colorado Energy Park to Build Multiple Large Advanced Nuclear Plants

BOISE, ID--(Marketwire - September 15, 2008) - Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AEHI ) signed an agreement with a representative of the proposed Colorado Energy Park (CEP) southeast of Pueblo, CO to negotiate contracts on land and water rights for multiple large advanced nuclear reactors...

Posted to Nuclear Power Plant News (Forum) by Highrad on 09-15-2008

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