07/27/2010 Explosion brings down Hanford's K East Reactor stack
The 175-foot-high exhaust stack at Hanford's K East Reactor has been brought crashing to the ground with a combination of explosives and gravity. "The demolition was a success," Kurt Kehler, vice president of decommissioning and demolition for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co., said Monday. "The stack fell exactly where we anticipated it would fall."
www.thenewstribune.com
07/26/2010 UAE students undergoing nuclear training in Korea
The first four-week summer internship programme for the UAE nuclear industry is a partnership between the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT), the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and Sudo Electric Technical High School (SEHS).
www.wam.ae
07/25/2010 Salem 1 nuclear reactor comes back online
PSEG's Salem 1 nuclear reactor came online Saturday at 7:49 a.m. after lengthy repairs of a transformer. The other two reactors at the Lower Alloways Creek Township site, Salem 2 and Hope Creek, are both operating at full capacity.
www.nj.com
07/25/2010 BLOG: You Can Become Part Owner of a Nuclear Reactor for $0.56!
Do any of you know about Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI)? Everything I have read about the company looks legitimate so far. The future value of the company depends largely on the approval of a Nuclear Power plant they want to build in Idaho. If final approval is received the stock would probably really jump.
caps.fool.com
07/24/2010 Looking for gold in uranium mining
A large deposit of uranium, the heaviest of the radioactive elements, was discovered on two family farms in Pittsylvania County, Virginia 32 years ago. The families, and their company, want to mine it, but they need state permission to do so.
www.smithmountainlake.com
07/24/2010 Energy officials to discuss second nuclear plant at Point Lepreau
When New Brunswick energy officials meet with Areva executives in coming weeks, they will be discussing technology never used in Canada - technology that could spell the end of the made-in-Canada reactors that have been the hallmark of the country's nuclear program.
dailygleaner.canadaeast.com
07/22/2010 GLE confident as new laser process advances
Enriching uranium using laser technology. Sounds pretty advanced, doesn't it? It will, in fact, be the technology's first commercial use if Global Laser Enrichment wins a license from regulators to build and operate such a plant in Castle Hayne, NC.
www.starnewsonline.com
07/21/2010 Toshiba interested in rehabilitation of Bataan
Froilan Tampinco, president of Napocor, told reporters, “Japan is one of those which is very much interested in getting into the scene.” Tampinco said Toshiba Corp. is interested in helping Napocor in actual preparations to rehabilitate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP.)
businessmirror.com.ph
07/20/2010 China surpasses U.S. in energy consumption
China officially became the world's most voracious energy-consumer last year, the International Energy Agency in Paris said Monday. China's energy consumption in 2009, the equivalent of burning 2.3 billion tons of oil, outpaced the United States by 4 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported.
www.upi.com
07/20/2010 HANFORD: Murray adds $50 million to 2011 proposed budget
That would bring the Hanford budget next year to $56 million more than the current annual budget for Hanford or almost $2.2 billion. In addition, the nuclear reservation will continue to spend $1.96 billion in federal economic stimulus money.
www.tri-cityherald.com
07/19/2010 Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract at Savannah River Site
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a fixed-price subcontract by Shaw Areva Mox Services, LLC for work to be performed at the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, located at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, S.C.
www.marketwatch.com
07/19/2010 GE Signs Five-Year, $116 Million PPS Alliance with TVA
GE has signed a service alliance with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's largest public power provider, covering four TVA power plants and valued at $116 million over the next five years. The alliance will help TVA meet its strategic needs by ensuring the long-term reliability, efficiency and cost-effective operation of its power generation equipment.
www.marketwatch.com
07/19/2010 New Reactor Head delivered to Diablo Canyon
A replacement reactor for Unit 1 at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach arrives today on a transporter. It will be installed during a scheduled maintenance and refueling outage this fall, according to Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
www.santamariatimes.com
07/19/2010 USS Philadelphia heads for Norfolk shipyard
The USS Philadelphia (SSN 690) has left the Naval Submarine Base. The Los Angeles-class submarine headed to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., to be dismantled, and complete the process of being retired from the Navy fleet.
www.theday.com
07/18/2010 GE Hitachi reaches for incentives with expansion
GEH said it would create 900 jobs over five years and invest $704 million in an expansion at Castle Hayne. The state pledged up to $25.7 million in incentives if the company meets those goals. GEH's first report comes as it moves closer to building a plant here in which uranium will be enriched using laser-based technology.
www.starnewsonline.com
07/18/2010 House Appropriations Subcommittee approves INL Cleanup Funds
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, today announced the inclusion of funding for the Idaho National Laboratory and the Idaho Cleanup Project as part of legislation funding the Department of Energy in Fiscal Year 2011. This legislation provides $422 million for cleanup activities at the Idaho National Laboratory, which is a $10 million increase over the President’s request.
bignews.biz
07/17/2010 PPL: River water forced Susquehanna shutdown
The operators of the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant shut down one of the facility's two reactors Friday after river water leaked into the basement of a building housing the reactor's turbine, according to a press release.
citizensvoice.com
07/16/2010 INL: Fire has not released contamination
The Idaho National Laboratory reported Thursday that a fire that has consumed some 170 square miles of brush land on and off the eastern Idaho nuclear site has not burned over any areas contaminated by radioactive materials.
www.mtexpress.com
07/15/2010 US DOE Official: All 3 Leading Nuclear Projects May Get Funding
The U.S. Energy Department could potentially offer subsidies to all three of the leading nuclear-power projects that have applied for loan guarantees if the U.S. Senate approves funding for $9 billion in additional loan guarantees, a top official said on Wednesday.
english.capital.gr
07/15/2010 Mini nuclear plants in works for 2020
Babcock & Wilcox has been developing its mPower reactor, capable of generating 125 megawatts of electricity from a reactor about 12 feet wide by 75 feet long. The alliance between the corporations will be known as Generation mPower and, pending regulatory approval and other factors, could deploy its first plant by 2020, the companies said.
www.roanoke.com
