In a 2012 report, the Obama administration announced that it was "jumpstarting" the nuclear industry. Because of the industry's long history of permitting problems, cost overruns, and construction delays, financial markets have been wary of backing new nuclear construction for decades.
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Virginia's Nuclear Energy Consortium (NEC), signed into law this week by Gov. McDonnell, intends to make the state a hub for research and development of safe and available nuclear power. The Consortium will build on Virginia's already substantial nuclear facilities in higher education, nuclear reactor manufacturing, and nuclear engineering.
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On May 1, 2013 access to one of Germany's investment incentive programs will be granted, but only to the bright spark who is able to solve the problem of storage capacity and the balancing of decentralized power generation.
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Scientists around the world have crossed a threshold into a promising and challenging new era in the quest for fusion energy. So says physicist George "Hutch" Neilson, director of advanced projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, in remarks prepared for the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
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Veolia Environnement and the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) have today signed a general collaboration agreement for nuclear facility cleanup and dismantling, along with a specific agreement concerning two facilities - one at the CEA centre in Marcoule, and the other at the CEA centre in Cadarache.
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In the 18 months since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following an earthquake and tsunami, as Japan's other nuclear reactors shut for routine maintenance, popular opposition kept them from restarting. The country entered the summer of 2012 with all its nuclear generators shuttered. With a fourth of its pre-Fukushima power supply gone, blackouts were expected, especially in the country's western region.
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Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. says confidence is high in its plans to build a nuclear power plant in Idaho following a number of successes for the nuclear industry as a whole in 2012. Successes include construction commencement on five new reactors and four additional reactor license approvals are expected in 2013 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Alstom today announced the launch of its “LP75” very long Last Stage Blade (LSB) for nuclear steam turbines at the Nuclear New Build Summit in Shanghai.
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AREVA has chosen the Beaumont-Hague site as the location for a test center for its Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology, thereby renewing its commitment to developing French industrial know-how.
This unique proje...
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Following each of the world's worst nuclear accidents—Three Mile Island,
Chernobyl, and Fukushima—governments and plant operators adopted safety and
security measures to help prevent future disasters. Most recently, ...
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