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• Amarillo Power Update - License Application Will be Filed In 2009 vice 2008

  On Tuesday September 9, 2008 Amarillo.com published an update on Amarillo Power's planned nuclear project in the Texas panhandle. For undisclosed reasons, the company - led by George Chapman - has notified the NRC that it will be filing its construction and operating license application in late 2009 vice late 2008. At least part of the reason for the delay is the engineering site evaluation to... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:44 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, NRC, Amarillo Power

• Another European Country With Plans for New Nuclear Power

  Switzerland has one of the cleanest electrical power systems in the world. It produces and consumes about 58 billion kilowatt-hours per year. Its five nuclear reactors (four power stations, one has two reactors) supply about 22 billion kilowatt-hours (38%), nearby French nuclear plants supply about 7-8%, and its extensive network of hydroelectric dams produce nearly all of the rest. Unfortunately,... Posted Jun 11 2008, 04:34 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants

• Cookie cutter plants may reduce initial costs of new nuclear power

  In an interesting editorial in the Tri-City Herald (serving Kennewick, Pasco and Richland Washington) titled Slow resurrection of nuclear power the paper's editorial board bemoans the fact that there does not seem to be much progress visible in the Nuclear Renaissance. Of course, we all know that there are things happening in preparation for building, but watching from the outside must be like... Posted May 14 2008, 04:12 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants

• Amarillo Power still an intriguing dark horse contender for first new nuclear plant in the US

  George Chapman at Amarillo Power continues to fascinate me, partially because he does not make much noise. Information about his project's progress only surfaces once in a while. I try to share it with you as soon as I have time to digest and verify my own understanding of the implications of what is being said. (If you are not a regular reader or if you are new to this blog, you might want to... Posted Mar 16 2008, 12:13 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, Amarillo Power

• Smaller plants could speed the Nuclear Renaissance

  Marianne Lavelle writes Beyond the Barrel on the Money and Business section of the US News and World Report web site. She posted a blog on February 21, 2008 titled Nuclear Industry Eyes a Smaller Renaissance that reported on the NEI's recent brief of Wall Street investors . Her report included an after meeting chat with John Rowe, CEO of Exelon who answered a few questions about the biggest hurdles... Posted Feb 24 2008, 07:03 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, Nuclear Energy

• Like it or not, the nukes are coming - the big question is how fast

  The Houston Chronicle serves a reader base that includes a high percentage of people in the energy business. The city's prosperity has risen and fallen and risen again as the energy markets have fluctuated during the past 100 years. The primary focus of Houston's energy business has been oil and natural gas, but there are a number of important reasons why its leading businessmen might become... Posted Feb 17 2008, 03:58 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants

• Irish entrepreneur wants to build a nuclear plant near Belfast

  According to a Saturday, January 19, 2008 article on the Belfast Telegraph web site titled Nuclear power plan for Ulster Robert Andrews, the founder of Andronics , a satellite communications and location tracking company, has stated his interest in building a new nuclear power plant in Northern Ireland. However, that part of the UK was apparently excluded from the recent White Paper discussions about... Posted Jan 19 2008, 09:05 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, UK

• Ireland discussing nuclear power again

  According to an opinion piece titled The debate on Irish nuclear power should be fuelled by pragmatism the recent decision by the UK to include nuclear power in its future energy plans is causing an increased level of discussion about a domestic use of atomic power within Ireland. Another useful source about the discussion can be found on the Independent.ie (Ireland) under the title of Nuclear debate... Posted Jan 13 2008, 12:47 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, Ireland

• Opposition getting organized against NRG South Texas plans

  There is no doubt that there will be some effort to fight against any new nuclear power plants here in the US. There are people nearing retirement age whose entire adult lives have been spent in the professional battle to slow the development of nuclear fission based power plants. There was an article published in the December 28, 2007 issue of the Houston Chronicle titled Opposition stirring against... Posted Dec 29 2007, 07:14 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: NRG, new nuclear plants

• New shape of hybrid cooling towers described by Baltimore Sun

  Unistar Nuclear has plans to build the first of a series of nuclear power plants about 50 miles south of my home in Annapolis at a place called Calvert Cliffs. Right now, there are two 850 MWe PWR units originally supplied by Combustion Engineering operating at that site. Throughout its history, Calvert Cliffs has been a precedent setting site. Following the passage of the National Environmental Policy... Posted Dec 27 2007, 02:50 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, Combustion Engineering, Calvert Cliffs, Unistar Nuclear

• Free Idaho blog repots on nuclear interest in Idaho by a company owned by Warren Buffett

  BillH over on freeinidaho.com posted a very interesting comment about recent interest by MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co., a subsidiary of the Des Moines, Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. in some land in Idaho. The holding company has electricity distribution companies in neighboring states and certainly has the financial resources for building nuclear power plants. Go read the article now... Posted Dec 05 2007, 06:09 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: new nuclear plants, MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co., Idaho