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Westinghouse’s Roderick shifts resources from SMR to AP1000

…said, and the company will eventually file an application with the NRC as the market dictates. But for now it is spending its energy in parts of the company with greater economic potential. In a rather depressing conclusion to the article, Roderick noted that Westinghouse sees a growing opportunity to build its reactor decommissioning business. His company believes that market for destroying nuclear plants may provide as much annual revenue as bu…

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Labor and Business perspectives from White House Summit on Nuclear Energy – Liz Shuler (AFL-CIO) and Danny Roderick (Westinghouse)

…mic Insights has a pretty extensive library of articles that mention Danny Roderick’s leadership and impact on the nuclear industry, this is the first time I’ve mentioned Liz Shuler. She has an impressive resume. One notable achievement was her involvement in a campaign in Oregon to resist efforts by Enron to push an electricity deregulation bill modeled after the disastrous California legislation. She is an engaging speaker, a quality that is alm…

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Westinghouse CEO: Decommissioning is part of the nuclear life cycle

…technology that we use in our new units and in our operating fleets. Danny Roderick Chief Executive Officer Westinghouse Electric Company Danny Roderick is president and chief executive officer of Westinghouse Electric Company, headquartered in Pittsburgh. Westinghouse is a leading nuclear energy company and worldwide supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies. Response from Rod Adams Here is the quote from the original post that stimulat…

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Toshiba Announces $6.3 B Writedown On A $229 M Construction Company Acquisition

…arly in the day in reaction to that possibility. What Will Happen To Danny Roderick? Reports indicate that Danny Roderick, Westinghouse’s popular CEO, is being relieved of the additional responsibilities that he recently assumed as the head of Toshiba’s energy unit. Those reports indicate he is being reassigned to focus on improving Westinghouse’s prospects. Presumably, that will include efforts to seek the best possible outcome at Vogtle and Summ…

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Toshiba Likely To Exit Nuclear Plant Construction Business

…overnance of Westinghouse.” Hara deferred any comment on the fate of Danny Roderick, President and CEO of Toshiba’s Energy Systems & Solutions Company. We cannot comment on the responsibility of Danny Roderick at this moment as well. Hara’s email also explained the preliminary understanding of root cause of the company’s current financial stress. Initially, the construction for the U.S. two projects were carried out by CB&I by its subsidiary calle…

One Toshiba Lesson – Organizations With Venerable Corporate Names Can Be Risky Acquisitions
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One Toshiba Lesson – Organizations With Venerable Corporate Names Can Be Risky Acquisitions

…e are reports that Westinghouse executives, up through and including Danny Roderick, the CEO, pressed hard to get the deal approved. There is an unnamed whistleblower who claims that their desire to settle the conflicts and move forward came through as undue pressure to ignore some of the looming risks that were being accepted by Toshiba as part of the deal. Once again, Toshiba accepted larger risks than it knew about as a result of another purcha…

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Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

…how to reduce costs and improve performance. People like Jose Reyes, Danny Roderick, Jack Devanney, David LeBlanc, Jacob DeWitt, Caroline Cochrane, Leslie Dewan, and Bob Hargraves–to name just a few–are focused on keeping cost as an important metric. Current interest in manufacturing smaller reactors with interchangeable parts for series production shows that many new nuclear leaders have learned that the “economy of scale” doesn’t mean that bigge…

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Mark Cooper is wrong about SMRs and nuclear energy

…a growing order book with eight reactors already under construction. Danny Roderick, president and CEO of the Cranberry-based nuclear firm, said Westinghouse recently “reprioritized” staff devoted to small modular reactor, or SMR, development and funneled their efforts to the AP1000, the company’s full-scale new generation pressurized water reactor currently under construction in China and the U.S. Nuclear advocates agree with Cooper that SMRs are…

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Diseconomy of scale – world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump

…n of first of a kind engineering issues sourced to Westinghouse CEO, Danny Roderick. It continued with a description of the installation plan for redesigned and remanufactured pumps to support a schedule starting date of December 1, 2015 for Sanmen 1. The article explained the status of the pumps issues as follows. Timothy Collier, Westinghouse vice president and managing director, China, said in an April 2014 press conference that the problem wit…

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Atomic Show #204 – Nuclear vendor CEOs discuss global market outlook

…Rencheck, President and Chief Executive Officer, AREVA Inc. and Daniel L. Roderick, President and Chief Executive Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company. They discussed a number of challenges and opportunities including small modular reactors, competition with natural gas, market distortions caused by targeted subsidies, financial benefits to US of the Export-Import Bank, innovation, competing against government-owned corporations, and the obsole…

Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Offers Lousy Excuses About Nuclear Energy Position
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Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Offers Lousy Excuses About Nuclear Energy Position

…ichael Shellenberger, Rachel Pritzker, President Obama, Tom Fanning, Danny Roderick, Jack Devanny, Bob Hargraves, Simon Irish, Jose Reyes or Robert Stone. I’m not sure where Brune has been for the past dozen or so years as the national discussion about nuclear energy, especially as an ultra-low emission, proven technology has continued at both the highest and lowest levels of government, NGOs and private industry. Perhaps he missed the Energy Poli…

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Caldeira, Emanuel, Wigley and Hansen Statement at COP21, December 4, 2015

…acob DeWitte and Caroline Cochrane of UPower, Jose Reyes of NuScale, Danny Roderick of Westinghouse and all of the other atomic power developers, leaders and innovators who are working diligently to make nuclear power systems simple and safe enough so they can produce virtually unlimited quantities of clean electricity that is cheaper than power produced by burning coal. I remain inspired by how Einstein’s famous equation [E=MC^2, with both M and…

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