Yesterday the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it will approve a construction and operating license for two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at The Southern Company’s Vogtle generating plant. This will be the first new U.S. nuclear project in more than three decades. It will create around 25,000 direct and indirect jobs. A couple years ago,...
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Clean, cheap industrial heat coming soon: Next Generation Nuclear Plant marches on
I am always glad when I hear of research and development dollars going to deserving projects led by deserving researchers. Today (August 16) I read a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $1.1 million to a UW-Madison researcher to develop ways...
CANDU back in the game: what now?
After months of excruciating uncertainty, the CANDU situation has been resolved somewhat. As everyone predicted, SNC-Lavalin has agreed to purchase the CANDU reactor part of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. I won’t go into the ins and outs of the deal. I’ll just focus on what needs to happen now. Assuming the deal is indeed...
Waste to power: beautiful concept, and demonstrably viable
I recently visited a waste-to-power project in my home town, Ottawa Ontario. This is the Carp Road landfill gas project. The Carp Road landfill is a private facility, run by Waste Management Inc., a Houston-based multinational whose name aptly describes its business. The Carp Road facility consists of a mountain of municipal garbage into...
Newly focused Areva turns up the heat on AECL with Canadian design review
Areva might have lost its battle with EDF over supremacy in the French nuclear industry, but it hasn’t lost its desire to sell reactors in Canada. A CNSC official just confirmed to me that Areva will submit its 1,000 megawatt Atmea PWR to CNSC for a Vendor Pre-Project Design Review. A pre-project review, which...
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