Kashiwazaki-Kariwa BWRs might not begin restarting until 2009
Restart of the first of seven BWRs at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa won't likely be authorized by regulators and politicians until after the beginning of next year and perhaps by
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Kentucky, Utah may encourage nuclear construction in their states
Recent legislation introduced in Kentucky and Utah, which do not have any nuclear power plants, would encourage construction of reactors.
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Lower nuclear plant availability costs EDF Eur 420 million in 2007
The average availability of Electricite de France's nuclear plants dipped to 80.2% in 2007, the lowest level in eight years, costing the French utility 420 million euros
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McCain differs from Clinton and Obama on nuclear power
Among the remaining three leading US presidential candidates, there is a surprising convergence of views on many key environmental and energy issues. But only one contender —
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Mississippi considering legislation allowing recovery of new plant costs
The Mississippi legislature is moving forward with legislation that would allow ongoing recovery of costs for construction of new generating plants, including Entergy Mississippi's proposed new reactor
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NRC review of Yucca Mt. submittal depends on timing, Klein says
NRC won't have the funds to review a DOE repository license application in a timely manner if the department fails to make the submittal before the fiscal
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Suez to decide in 2009 on investing in new nuclear generation, CEO says
Suez won't decide on whether to invest in new nuclear generating capacity in continental Europe until next year, once it has completed its planned merger with Gaz
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UK official signs GNEP statement, explores new reactor financing
The UK became the 21st country to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership when UK Business Secretary John Hutton signed the GNEP Statement of Principles in Washington
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US seeking Indian commitment to buy reactors from US vendors
US officials are pressing their Indian counterparts to provide assurances that some of New Delhi's anticipated reactor purchases will be from US vendors, sources said this month.
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Uncertainties for new reactors similar to other generation, NEI says
The uncertainties of building new nuclear power plants are now well understood and are "no larger than the risks" for constructing other types of baseload generation, Nuclear
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AECL, consultant to review events leading to NRU shutdown
A Washington-based international consulting firm, Talisman International LLC, has been hired to conduct a joint review of the circumstances that led up to the extended outage of
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Areva wants to sell EPRs to Turkey, but awaiting invitation to bid
Areva is interested in selling EPRs to Turkey, the French vendor confirmed February 19, but a spokesman said it is too soon to talk of a formal
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BE trying to increase AGRs' output as it pursues new construction
British Energy is attempting to reverse the plummeting output from its aging, second-generation advanced gas-cooled reactor, or AGR, fleet as it jockeys for "a central role" in
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DOE may apply to NRC this summer for license for Yucca Mt. repository
DOE might send a repository license application to NRC this summer, but the department won't have a potential operating date until Congress changes the way the program
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EBRD sees shortfall in funding for cleanup of northwest Russia
About Eur 1.7 billion (US$2.5 billion) will have to be spent in the next 17 years to help dismantle nuclear submarines and deal with spent fuel in
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ElBaradei advises Sarkozy to go slow on sales of new nuclear plants
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei last week cautioned French President Nicolas Sarkozy against any initiative to sell nuclear power plants to countries that may not be ready
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FPL says cost of new reactors at Turkey Point could top $24 billion
Building two new reactors at Turkey Point would cost as much as $24.3 billion, depending on the technology chosen, Florida Power & Light Co. has told the
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Fourth reactor could come online at Olkiluoto in 2018, analysis says
A nuclear reactor with 1,000 MW to 1,800 MW of installed capacity could be online at Olkiluoto around 2018, according to an environmental impact assessment released February
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GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy CEO shifted to new position in company
Andrew White, the president and CEO of GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy, was transferred last week to a new position within GE Energy and replaced by Jack Fuller, another
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IEA: Long-term policy needed for investment in new US reactors
A significant US nuclear renaissance will require a long-term policy framework to encourage investment in nuclear capacity, the OECD International Energy Agency said last week.
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NRC review schedule for Bellefonte foresees major studies done by 2011
NRC anticipates issuing the Bellefonte final environmental impact statement, or EIS, in January 2010 and the final safety evaluation report, or SER, in February 2011 — the
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NRC, DOE, industry to investigate LWR life extension beyond 60 years
The operating life of current US power reactors can and should be extended beyond 60 years, government officials and industry representatives said at a workshop this week.
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Oregon regulators stick to plan to issue single ruling in Trojan case
The Oregon Public Utilities Commission last week stood firm on its intent to issue a single ruling on two central issues involving the shutdown Trojan reactor —
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Progress Energy files for license for Harris site
Progress Energy Carolinas filed an application February 19 with the NRC for a construction permit-operating license, or COL, for two potential new reactors at its Shearon-Harris station
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STP's biggest owners to pursue expansion as city of Austin opts out
The biggest owners of South Texas Project-1 and -2 are moving ahead with plans for new reactors at the site after the smallest owner, the city of
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Swedish climate panel sidestepped nuclear issues, lawmaker says
The majority of members of Sweden's Climate Committee "have completely dodged the question of how power from our 10 reactors will be replaced" after decommissioning, a Liberal
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US nuclear MWh cost inches up, led equally by operations, capital
The average cost of generating a US nuclear megawatt-hour, including operations, fuel and capital, has risen about $4/MWh in the five years from 2003 to 2007 with
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UK: Studsvik get permits for UK recycling facility. All permits for construction and operation of Studsvik's UK metallic recycling facility have been granted, the Swedish company said
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Brunsbuettel, Kruemmel to be back online this year, Vattenfall CEO says
Brunsbuettel and Kruemmel will be back online this year, Vattenfall CEO Lars Josefsson said February 7, but he did not give a more specific date.
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Finnish minister wants lawmakers to review only one reactor project
Finnish Minister for Employment and the Economy Mauri Pekkarinen said last week that parliament should consider at most only one nuclear reactor during its current term, which
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Generation By Nation for 2007
Generation By Nation for 2007
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German leaders question selling EPRs to new-nuclear developing countries
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to sell state-owned vendor Areva's reactors to developing countries has raised concerns among German political and industry leaders that such projects could
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Government gets results of studies on new reactor at Point Lepreau
The New Brunswick government has received two studies on the potential of construction of a new reactor next to the province's existing Candu unit at Point Lepreau,
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Gross Generation by Reactor Type and Vendor 2007
Gross Generation by Reactor Type and Vendor 2007
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Lenders' template for evaluating carbon risks might benefit nuclear
Three lending institutions this month issued joint guidelines for evaluating so-called carbon risks in financing new electric power plants that indirectly could bolster the attractiveness of utility
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Lithuanian president approves changes to nuclear power plant law
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus approved amendments to the country's new nuclear power plant law February 12, only hours before his deadline to act expired.
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Notes to Nucleonics Week's generating table for December 2007
Units in the US and Asia reported results for 744 hours in December and 8,760 hours year-to-date. Europe outside the UK reported results for 840 hours in
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Nuclear Electricity Generation for December 2007
Nuclear Electricity Generation for December 2007
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Nuclear power key to Exelon's low-carbon plan
Exelon's "low-carbon energy strategy," with the goal of reducing, displacing or offsetting the company's "entire carbon footprint" by 2020, is "something we can only do because we
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Plans for US isotope reactors carry nonproliferation, market impacts
Potential US producers of medical isotopes say they could have facilities online in the next several years — a development that, if it materializes, could have a
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SPD ex-economics minister warns party on energy policy
Wolfgang Clement, for decades a leading Social Democratic politician, warned his party last week that its unflagging opposition to nuclear and coal-fired power generation will make Germany
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South Carolina lawmakers support nuclear, but not as renewable energy
South Carolina's House of Representatives last week unanimously passed legislation that excludes nuclear energy from the definition of renewable power but includes support for nuclear as a
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Top 50 Units by Capacity Factor 2007
Top 50 Units by Capacity Factor 2007
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Top 50 Units by Generation 2007
Top 50 Units by Generation 2007
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UK nuclear output declines as gas-cooled fleet ages badly
UK nuclear units went from bad to worse in 2007, with output declining and material ills multiplying as the country's gas-cooled reactors age and approach planned decommissioning.
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US units shine, but world nuclear generation lags in 2007
In an otherwise lackluster 2007, when worldwide nuclear generation fell about 100 million megawatt-hours short of the 2006 mark of 2.8 billion MWh, US reactors set a
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AECL completes work at NRU that had been required by CNSC
Unfinished work at the NRU reactor at Chalk River has been completed, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. said February 4.
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Based on Chernobyl event, France developing post-accident strategy
More than 20 years after the accident at Chernobyl-4 in what is now Ukraine, French authorities are fine-tuning a formal strategy for managing the aftermath of a
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Capacity factor for PSEG's fleet dips slightly on Hope Creek outage
Hope Creek's 33-day fall refueling outage caused the cumulative capacity factor for Public Service Enterprise Group's nuclear fleet to drop slightly below the projected level for 2007,
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Constellation keeping up pace on reactor construction effort
Constellation Energy remains on track with its schedule for deciding on building new reactors, a top company official said last week.
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Duke again seeking to recover nuclear development costs
Duke Energy is seeking to recover additional nuclear development costs for its planned William States Lee III nuclear plant in South Carolina.
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EPRI, DOE plan cost-share program for LWR research and development
The Electric Power Research Institute and DOE's Idaho National Laboratory announced plans for a government-industry cost-share program for LWR research and development, including on extending the lifetimes
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Eskom gets bids for two EPRs, three AP1000s, bigger 'fleet'
Westinghouse and Areva both submitted bids January 30 to build new nuclear power plants for South African utility Eskom, kicking off a new round of competition following
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FY-09 DOE budget request reflects push for nuclear expansion
The Bush administration unveiled a $25 billion, nuclear-friendly budget request for DOE February 4 that would nearly double spending in fiscal 2009 on the near-term deployment of
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Fennovoima to look at new plant's impact on the environment
Fennovoima will look at the environmental impact of constructing a new nuclear plant and what effect construction delays might have, the Finnish company said in submitting its
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Hunterston B-1 leads in BE's 2008 AGR boiler balancing work
British Energy took its Hunterston B-1 advanced gas-cooled reactor, or AGR, offline February 1 for planned boiler inspections and will do the same with three similar AGRs
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Left party's success could sideline plans to end German phase-out
The rise of the recently-formed Left party — Die Linke — could scuttle efforts by Germany's two pronuclear parties to form a national parliamentary majority in 2009
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Lithuanian lawmakers approve changes to new nuclear plant law
In a vote that narrowly escaped being invalid, amendments to Lithuania's new nuclear plant law passed in the Baltic country's parliament February 1.
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Lungmen ABWR project set back by design problems, evaluators say
Taiwan Power Co.'s 12-year effort to build two ABWRs at Lungmen has been delayed in part by engineering design problems that were ultimately caused by inappropriate management
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Minnesota emissions reduction plan includes lifting nuclear moratorium
Governor Tim Pawlenty's preliminary action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Minnesota calls for lifting a moratorium on new nuclear plants.
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NEI says US plants set generation records in 2007
US nuclear plants set records for output and capacity factor in 2007, the Nuclear Energy Institute said February 6. The 104 US reactors generated 807 billion net
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NRC FY-09 budget request breaks billion-dollar mark for the first time
The NRC is requesting a fiscal 2009 budget of nearly $1.02 billion, $90.9 million more than its FY-08 spending authority.
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NRC request for new-reactor funds less than original plan, staff says
The administration's fiscal 2009 budget request for NRC reviews of new-reactor license application is short of what the staff requested, and the shortfall could have an impact
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SCE&G still hopes to apply for COL
South Carolina Electric & Gas is in "the final throes" of contract negotiations for a new nuclear plant and believes it can successfully conclude those talks in
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Socialists back nuclear phase-out again as election nears in Spain
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero last week approved the inclusion of a nuclear phase-out in the platform of his Socialist party for national legislative elections to
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Ukraine's president approves plan for decommissioning of Chernobyl
Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko last month approved an action plan for decommissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant covering the next four years, as part of a long-term
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CEA wants to test theory on cause of 1989-90 reactivity drops at Phenix
France's Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, CEA, thinks it has identified the cause of the negative-reactivity incidents that plagued the Phenix prototype fast reactor almost two decades ago,
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Construction on Leningrad-II-1, -2 set to begin in fall, STUK says
Final construction permits for Leningrad-II-1 and -2 are expected to be issued by the end of March and concrete pouring for the Russian VVERs is scheduled to
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Deal could be signed this week to ease US limits on Russian LEU
Russia and the US are scheduled to sign an amendment February 1 relaxing restrictions on exports of low-enriched uranium to the US, sources from the two countries
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Entergy's merchant fleet spin-off is company's top 2008 priority
Separating Entergy's merchant nuclear fleet into a separate business from the regulated utility entity is the company's top strategic priority this year, Entergy Corp. Chairman and CEO
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Ex-CNSC president says safety risks at NRU exceed international limits
Linda Keen, former president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, told a parliamentary committee January 29 that the safety risks of operating Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s
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Experts defend low 'nuclear' rates for French electricity consumers
French electricity consumers have the right to benefit from low-cost nuclear power via regulated rates that have been challenged by the European Commission, energy experts told a
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France, India agree on cooperation, but barriers to nuclear trade remain
France and India agreed on deepened nuclear cooperation late last week, but conclusion of a formal bilateral agreement — and any reactor and/or fuel supply contract —
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GE-Hitachi considering partners as it again looks at Turkish market
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy is looking at a partnering arrangement involving a utility and a reactor constructor that it believes can be successful in building new reactors in
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House panel, GAO probe programs DOE used to support GNEP
The Government Accountability Office and the chairman of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee are questioning DOE's use of a program, which was originally established to employ
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IAEA team to visit Albania as part of country's nuclear power planning
An IAEA expert mission will visit Albania next month at the request of the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha, which is preparing to introduce nuclear power
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MidAmerican cancels project as others reassess nuclear option
Citing soaring costs for building nuclear power plants, MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co. said this week that it was abandoning plans to potentially build a new reactor in
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Partners may leave Ignalina project, says Lithuanian prime minister
Lithuanian lawmakers have postponed a scheduled January 31 vote on changes to the country's law on a new Ignalina nuclear power plant, a move that Prime Minister
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TransCanada's earnings from Bruce down in last quarter, full-year 2007
TransCanada Corp. reported lower net earnings from its share in Bruce Power's six operating reactors January 29.
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Turkey to pick reactor vendor by end of 2008
The Turkish government aims to select a foreign power reactor vendor and its partners by the end of 2008 to build and operate nuclear power plants at
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