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  • Idaho is not likely to be nuclear soon

    In the third decade of this century Idaho Power may buy electricity from INL's "Next Generation" nuclear plant Hat tip to Dave Bradish and his team at NEI Nuclear Notes The Mountain Express out of Mountain Home, ID has a news note for June 2 that reports sometime in the third decade of...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2008

  • DOE to fund NGNP ~ deep burn ~ reactor design

    Two reactor R&D efforts are linked in a single grant funding opportunity The Department of Energy isn't giving up on GNEP even if Congress has repeatedly sent a strong message it isn't going to fund the program at the levels requested by the agency. In a new twist DOE has linked nuclear reactor...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-30-2008

  • How will Idaho lab build NGNP?

    Answer - two heads may be better than one The Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) is facing a formidable challenge with the release of a request for information (RFI) earlier this month by the Department of Energy (DOE). The government wants to hear from firms that think they can build the Next Generation...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008

  • 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 to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008

  • DOE releases RFI and FOA for NGNP and GNEP

    Says the government will pay more for fewer acronyms The Department of Energy this week issued a request for information (RFI) targeting industry and university groups, and other interested parties, asking for input on a prototype, low-emission nuclear plant at its Idaho National Laboratory ( INL )....
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-17-2008

  • Idaho lab's long range vision for NGNP

    Comes up short on cash There is great profile of the plans by the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant ( NGNP ) at the Energy Central web portal. It reports that the people planning the future of nuclear energy measure time in decades and time is running short. Philip...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-08-2008

  • PBMR seeks Mitsubishi investment in new reactor

    Demonstration plants are expensive South Africa has asked for funding from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan to finance all or part of 24 small nuclear power installations, at 160 Mw each, to be built by the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) project. They will need a lot of money because the rollout...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-25-2007

  • NGNP Costs said to be high than expected

    The plant won't be built for another eight years Platts reports that demonstrating the commercial viability of a high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor capable of producing both electricity and hydrogen could cost between $3.8 billion and $4.3 billion, according to estimates from three contract...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-14-2007

  • Summer is over - there's still some nuclear news

    August is a slow month, but there were a few nuclear issues Summer is a time for vacations and taking advantage of the fine weather. That's mostly what I did, so this is a long post that catches up on a lot of the nuclear news that took place anyway. Many of the links from news sources have expired so...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2007
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