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... after Duke-Progress wasted $70 million and eight years that should have been used to help slow global warming DURHAM, N.C., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NC WARN Executive Director Jim Warren issued the following statement today: "Duke Energy's cancellation yesterday of licensing efforts to build two nuclear reactors at subsidiary Progress Energy's Harris nuclear plant is good news - but it comes with a taint. The Shearon Harris failure perfectly typifies why the US...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today of plans to suspend its application for two proposed new nuclear units on its Harris site near New Hill in Wake County, North Carolina. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130322/CL81938LOGO ) Progress Energy Carolinas submitted the combined construction and operating license application to the NRC in February 2008. "The Harris site is well suited for new...
AUSTIN, Texas, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) told judges overseeing the licensing case for two proposed South Texas Project nuclear reactors that the applicant (NINA) is subject to foreign ownership control or domination requirements and does not meet the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act in this regard. This will help licensing opponents in the hearing that is anticipated this fall. "This NRC notice is great for us as...
CLARKSVILLE, Md., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Fiscal Optimal Solutions (iFOS) Managing Consultants, LLC recently announced it is has been awarded a 5-year ID/IQ to provide Onsite Secretarial Support Services for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Headquarters and Interim Locations. The contract has a 1-year base, for 4-year options and a potential value of $13.5 million if all option years are exercised. Under the contract, iFOS provides short-term and long-term...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida Senate today passed a bill that attempts, for the first time, to address the anti-consumer "early cost recovery" law passed in 2006 that allows the state's big power companies to shift all the financial risk of building new nuclear reactors to its customers. Senate bill 1472 adds procedural steps that require power companies seeking cost recovery from customers to show before the Florida Public Service Commission...
Even Before Administration's Budget: $100 Million in "Mini Nuke" Corporate Welfare Already Doled Out, Today's Announcement Continues Commitment to Half Billion Dollars in Subsidies WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Less than six weeks after the nonpartisan group Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) handed out its latest "Golden Fleece Award" to the Department of Energy for committing more than half a billion dollars in corporate welfare for the development and...
Westinghouse Electric Company announces that it has submitted a Letter of Intent to respond to the recent Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Announcement to accelerate the deployment of small modular reactor technology. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) April 08, 2013 Westinghouse Electric Company today announces that it has submitted a Letter of Intent to respond to the recent Department of Energy (DOE) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to accelerate the deployment of small modular...
Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that its subsidiary, PCI Energy Services, LLC, has signed a contract with Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. to provide engineering, specialty pipe cutting and welding services in support of the replacement steam generator program at Argentina’s Embalse Nuclear Power Plant. Pittsburgh, Pa. (PRWEB) April 03, 2013 April 3, 2013 -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that its subsidiary, PCI Energy Services, LLC (PCI), has signed a...
Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I, China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation Ltd. and Shandong Nuclear Power Company Ltd. of China Power Investment Corporation announce the successful setting of the AP1000 containment vessel top head for the nuclear island of Unit 1 at the Haiyang site in China. BEIJING (PRWEB) March 29, 2013 Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member CB&I, China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation...
Students of nuclear science and technology will be learning from experts, presenting their own research, and capturing on video what it means to be a nuclear scientist or nuclear engineer. La Grange Park, IL (PRWEB) March 29, 2013 The first-ever “I’m a Nuke” video will star nuclear science and technology students who are participating in the American Nuclear Society 2013 Student Conference hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Student Section of the American...
