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  • Texas nuclear new build roundup

    Exelon files with NRC, Luminant coming up soon Texas is the heart of the nation's oil industry, but it is in the Lone Star State that new nuclear reactors are being planned at a pace which only a few years ago would have seemed like science fiction.  There is an enormous amount of activity in...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-13-2008
  • TVA's destiny revealed at Bellefonte - Part II

    It enters uncharted territory by asking NRC for reinstatement of the licenses for two unfinished nuclear reactors The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to  reinstate the licenses for two partially completed reactors at its Bellefonte site near Scottsboro...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-31-2008
  • NGNP Licensing Strategy

    NRC and DOE deliver report to Congress The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S.  Department of Energy (DOE) this week delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report . The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directed the agencies to jointly develop a strategy...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
  • Small reactors have NRC's attention

    Chairman Dale Klein speech says they're part of the "nuclear renaissance."  He has some advice for how to deal with their licensing issues. The drumbeat about a global nuclear renaissance drives  is giving some people a headache and that includes NRC chairman Dale Klein who complained...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-27-2008
  • The NRC Licensing Process

    In case you missed it: NEI's Sr. Director of New Plant Deployment, Adrian Heymer, appeared this afternoon on CNBC's Street Signs to discuss the licensing process with Michael Johnson, the NRC's Director of New Reactors. The entire segment can be seen here . Heymer is optimistic that the application...
    Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
  • Nuclear Power On the Hill, Day 2

    On Tuesday it was the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources holding a nuclear energy-related hearing , yesterday the Committee on Environment and Public Works served as Senate host. The webcast of the hearing, “ Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Licensing and Relicensing Processes for Nuclear...
    Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
  • NRC gets first ISL uranium mining application

    Uranium recovery activity noted in Wyoming The dramatic rise in the price of uranium has stimulated new mining activities throughout the West and nowhere is this trend more visible than in Wyoming. The NRC received an application from Energy Metals to construct and operate a in-situ uranium recovery...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-02-2007
  • TVA files for two new reactors at Bellefonte

    And now for a really big show Anyone watching the nuclear energy industry this month must think it is on something of a roll. The Tennessee Valley Authority filed an application for a license to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors. The site is in Bellefonte, Alabama where it mothballed two...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-30-2007
  • AEHI still "invisible" to NRC's radar screen

    NRC chairman - agency "not engaged" in licensing dialog with AEHI Idaho Statesman reporter Ken Dey spoke with NRC Chairman Dale Klein at a nuclear industry conference taking place in Boise, ID, this week. Dey asked Klein about Alternative Energy Holdings (AEHI) proposed AREVA EPR for a location on southwestern...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2007
  • NRC faces dust devils at Wyoming hearing

    "Generic EIS" on uranium mining gets low marks at kick-off hearing A public hearing called by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Capser, WY, on August 7th on in-situ uranium leaching and uranium milling turned out 120 people who had some questions about the process. NRC is trying to figure out how...
    Posted to Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-10-2007
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