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• DoE takes stock of nuclear loan guarantees

  The US Department of Energy has 14 nuclear power projects to consider in its loan guarantee program. Their combined value of $188 billion is ten times what the DoE has allocated. Posted Oct 03 2008, 10:06 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: DOE, loan guarantees

• A plan to license NGNP

  The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project took another step forward on 15 August when the US Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission submitted a joint licensing plan for the advanced reactor. Posted Aug 18 2008, 12:06 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: NRC, DOE, Next Generation Nuclear Plant

• US solicits bids for loan guarantees on nuclear construction

  The US Department of Energy has invited applications for a total of up to $30.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy, nuclear and front-end nuclear power facility projects. Posted Jul 10 2008, 11:57 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, DOE, loan guarantees

• DoE consults industry on NGNP

  The US Department of Energy has appealed to industry on "how best to achieve the goals and meet the requirements" of its Next Generation Nuclear Plant project. It wants to finalize the conceptual design and operational parameters of the future reactor. Posted Apr 18 2008, 12:16 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Generation IV, DOE, NGNP

• US team announces nuclear fuel milestone

  Researchers from the US Department of Energy's lead nuclear research and development laboratory have announced a "major domestic milestone" in the performance of nuclear fuel for use in some of the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors. Posted Mar 13 2008, 11:52 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, Nuclear Fuel, DOE

• EPRI and INL release strategy plan for LWR R&D

  A research and development plan recommending two strategies that would allow nuclear energy to play a substantial role in meeting future US energy needs has been released by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. Posted Feb 11 2008, 11:07 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: DOE, INL, EPRI

• Grants for carbon-fibre composites research

  The US Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant to a researcher from Clemson University to study the use of carbon fibres to enhance the safety of nuclear power reactors. Posted Dec 12 2007, 11:16 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: DOE

• US reactor could become Historic Landmark

  [Seattle Times, 5 December] A US National Park Service advisory committee has recommended unanimously that the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor be designated a National Historic Landmark. The Hanford B reactor produced the plutonium for the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. The Department of Energy (DOE), which has responsibility for the reactor, plans to encase the reactor and steel for 75 years before disposal, as it has already done with five other reactors at the Washington site. Historians feel it should be preserved. Placement of the reactor on the registry of National Historic Landmarks would not guarantee its preservation but could help to protect it. A second National Park Service committee must now review the recommendation, and the final decision on designation as a National Historic Landmark rests with the secretary of the US Department of the Interior. The National Park Service is also carrying out a study on whether to include the reactor and other Manhattan Project sites in a new national park. Posted Dec 07 2007, 11:49 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: DOE, Hanford B Reactor