Latest Nuclear renaissance Stories

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A fire that shot 50 foot flames into the air erupted January 8(th) in the main transformer at the South Texas Project site near Bay City, Texas, about 90 miles southwest of Houston. Reactor 2, which was out of commission for five winter months in 2011-2012, has not been operating since the fire. The fire occurred just one week prior to a hearing on re-licensing the two South Texas Project reactors, which will be held January...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Since 1945, the Japanese people have been haunted by the specter of radioactive fallout. Yet despite the disturbing memories of the two innocuously dubbed nuclear warheads Fat Man and Little Boy, the island nation has embraced the power of the atom and currently depends on nuclear reactors for 30 percent of its total energy needs. However, Japan’s nuclear-sensitive psyche was rocked last year by the series of catastrophes at the...

TAKOMA PARK, Md., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A three judge Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) today denied a license for the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 nuclear reactor on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. In a 29-page decision, the ASLB agreed with intervenors that the Calvert Cliffs-3 project would be in violation of the Atomic Energy Act's prohibition against foreign ownership, control or domination, and that the project's owner, UniStar...

MENA and African nations including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa are pushing forward new nuclear construction projects that offer global engineering firms over $300 billion of new contracts from 2012. (PRWEB) August 11, 2012 The 3rd Annual MENA Nuclear Construction Conference takes place in Dubai on the 25-26 September and is the only meeting that will bring together key buyers from each nation to build their $multi-billion supply chains. The MENA nuclear...

ORLANDO, Fla., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Southern Company today received the 85th Annual EEI Edison Award, the electric utility industry's most prestigious honor, for the company's efforts in leading the nuclear renaissance. The company made immense progress toward building two new reactors at the site of subsidiary Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 by successfully obtaining the first combined construction and operating license in the United States in more than...

On October 25-27 2011, Dave Frantz, Director of Loan Guarantee Program at the Department of Energy will join over 300 nuclear experts to review the status of the loan guarantee program. The meeting will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina and the DOE presentation will review positive and poor loan guarantee applications to help ensure progressive responses are received from future nuclear project loan applications. London (PRWEB) July 25, 2011 The conference is the 3rd Annual Nuclear...

BOISE, Idaho, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTC:AEHI; www.aehipower.com) announced that it received final local rezone approval for building a nuclear power plant in Payette County, Idaho. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100907/AQ59921LOGO) On June 20th, Payette County Commissioners unanimously approved the request, which is a landmark achievement for the company and the international nuclear renaissance after the Japanese tsunami-caused event....

Case for Proposed EPR Reactor Grows Worse by the Week With Unresolved Safety Issues, Rising Costs and Doubts Raised by Former EdF CEO; Are U.S. Taxpayers About to be Stuck With "the Last Tickets for the Titanic"? WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A big red warning light started flashing for U.S. taxpayers in recent days amidst growing indications that the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor project -- the reported next-in-line recipient of a taxpayer-backed federal loan...

Nuclear Power Industry is Perfect Illustration of Why Taxpayers Are Saying "No More Bailouts!" - Billions for Plant Vogtle Reactors Impossible to Justify in Terms of Rising Financial Risks, Reduced Demand for Power, Cheaper Renewables and Huge Potential of Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First it was insurance companies, then it was banks and that was followed by auto companies. Now, the federal government is putting U.S. taxpayers and utility customers at...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Senator Pete Domenici today delivered a speech outlining a 21st century framework for global nuclear power at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the United States Energy Association hosted the presentation by former Senator Domenici, now a Senior Fellow at the BPC. In his speech, Senator Domenici argued that America's nuclear renaissance has stalled and, as a result, the United States is...