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• Shaw Group Earnings Report Gives Hints of Nuclear Plant Construction Activity

  As a counterpoint to the often repeated claim among anti-nuclear activists that the nuclear industry has not started building any new plants, I want to quote from a MarketWatch.com article reporting on the Shaw Group's most recent earnings report: J.M. Bernhard Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw, said, ... "We enter fiscal year 2009 with a very strong backlog of unfilled... Posted Nov 02 2008, 03:12 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Shaw Group

• Shaw Group Announces Nuclear Component Manufacturing Plant Joint Venture

  Shaw Group , which has a 20% ownership stake in Westinghouse Electric Company LLC , has announced a new plant that will build reactor components to be shipped via barge to new construction sites. The plant, destined for Lake Charles, Louisiana , will be a joint venture between Shaw and Westinghouse with about $210 million in assistance spread over 10 years from the state of Louisiana. To obtain the... Posted Aug 28 2008, 03:29 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Westinghouse, Shaw Group, large steel components, Louisiana

• DSC, Mitsubishi, PBMR, Toshiba, Shaw Group, Italy

  Strange blog post title today. I have been having some difficulty juggling a number of activities recently, and I find that I have missed commenting on a several recent events and updates associated with the NuClear renaissance. One of my activities has been a continuing conversation with Adam Curry on the DSC . If you have been listening to his recent shows, you will already know that he has been... Posted May 30 2008, 03:58 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Toshiba, PBMR, Italy, Mitsubishi, Shaw Group