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New Nuclear: North Anna Unit 3 Should Be Approved Before The End Of May

April 3, 2017 By Rod Adams

Shown are about 1/2 of the NRC staff members who were sworn in as potential witnesses during the North Anna Unit 3 COL hearing. Chairman Svinicki is administering the oath.

Dominion Resources’s North Anna nuclear power station unit number 3 should be approved for construction by the end of May 2017. It’s possible that the approval – in the form of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 10 CFR Part 52 combined license (COL) – could be issued within the next three weeks. This would be […]

Filed Under: New Nuclear, NRC, Nuclear regulations

NRC accepted NuScale’s DCA. Will it complete its review on time? Estimated completion July 2020

March 16, 2017 By Rod Adams

Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted NuScale’s 12,000 page design certification application (DCA). That action starts the safety determination process, which is scheduled to take 40 months. Completed on December 31, 2016 and submitted to the NRC on January 12, 2017, NuScale’s certification application has been subjected to a 60 day checklist review designed to […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, New Nuclear, Nuclear regulations, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Water Cooled Reactors

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

February 20, 2017 By Rod Adams

Toshiba’s chairman, Shigenori Shiga, has accepted the responsibility for his company’s financial challenges and operating losses and resigned his position as chairman and as a board member. He remains an executive with the company. After some early confusion related to a discussion about its financial statements with its auditors, Toshiba has announced that it will […]

Filed Under: AP1000 saga, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear

Toshiba Likely To Exit Nuclear Plant Construction Business

February 5, 2017 By Rod Adams

Note: There is an important information update at the end of this post. Westinghouse is “unlikely to carry out actual construction work for the future nuclear power plant projects to eliminate risk.” Satoshi Tsunakawa, President and CEO of Toshiba, the Japanese company that owns Westinghouse and its CB&I Stone Webster subsidiary, made that statement during […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, Economics, New Nuclear, Nuclear regulations

NRC Vision And Strategy For Licensing Advanced Reactors Needs Improvement

January 24, 2017 By Rod Adams 9 Comments

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its vision and strategy for preparing to review applications for permission to begin building reactors that do not use light water as the coolant. Policy makers who are interested in ensuring that American reactor developers have the opportunity to lead in the nascent – but potentially very lucrative field – of […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, New Nuclear, NRC, Nuclear regulations

Will China convert existing coal plants to nuclear using HTR-PM reactors?

November 21, 2016 By Rod Adams

It would be a huge benefit to the earth’s atmosphere if China, India, Brazil and the US could reduce direct coal burning while still making use of much of the capital that they have invested in building coal fired power plants. It would make an even larger difference in reducing air pollution in the areas […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, ANS Winter 2016, Climate change, Gas Cooled Reactors, Graphite Moderated Reactors, New Nuclear, Pebble Bed Reactors

NuScale Getting Ready For Design Certification Submission

October 26, 2016 By Rod Adams 18 Comments

NuScale remains on track to submit a high quality design certification application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of 2016. That statement might surprise people who follow small modular reactor developments closely enough to be aware that the company received a status report earlier this week from the NRC that gave a grade […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Water Cooled Reactors

Nuclear plant construction in U.K. will gain momentum from Brexit vote

July 1, 2016 By Rod Adams 12 Comments

British voters have spoken; they want to leave the EU by a margin of 52% to 48%. The split should provide a boost for the UK’s nuclear energy program. It should also improve the UK’s energy resiliency and improve the effectiveness of its effort to reduce CO2 emissions. As an island nation, the UK doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Business of atomic energy, International nuclear, New Nuclear

Feeling Upbeat about Nuclear Technology’s Future

May 5, 2016 By Rod Adams 25 Comments

I feel better about the prospects for new nuclear technology development today (April 21) than I have for several years, based on the four conferences in four different U.S. cities I’ve attended over the past several weeks. My travel calendar has included Washington, D.C., for the Nuclear Industry Summit / Nuclear Security Summit, New York […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, Atomic Pioneers, New Nuclear

No obstacles prevent China from rapidly building floating nuclear power plants

April 23, 2016 By Rod Adams 35 Comments

Credible entities in China have begun lining up the supply chains required to produce reliable electrical power from barge mounted nuclear fission power plants. There are no technical, industrial, or regulatory hurdles that prevents the first of those machines from being in service by 2020. China has a pressing need for the electricity those movable […]

Filed Under: Atomic ships, International nuclear, New Nuclear, Nuclear Navy, Nuclear Ships, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors

Advanced Reactor leaders: Will you put one in your backyard?

April 17, 2016 By Rod Adams 54 Comments

I returned from the Nuclear Energy Insider International Advanced Reactor and SMR Summit with revived energy, optimism and passion for participating in an expanding effort to smooth and straighten the tortuous path associated with producing increased quantities of clean energy from atomic fission. The effort isn’t small, it isn’t narrowly focused, and it isn’t–by any […]

Filed Under: Advanced Atomic Technologies, Atomic Advocacy, New Nuclear, Nuclear Communications

Bechtel will “pursue” accelerated mPower development

March 8, 2016 By Rod Adams 18 Comments

I’ve relearned a valuable lesson — read press releases and other PR material closely, paying special attention to wiggle words. On Friday, March 4, Bechtel issued a press release titled Bechtel, BWXT to Pursue Acceleration of Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Project. In my excitement, I missed the key word in the headline and in the […]

Filed Under: Business of atomic energy, New Nuclear, Small Nuclear Power Plants, Smaller reactors, Water Cooled Reactors

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