Cost hikes for all things nuclear in the U.S. and UK This August, the U.S. Department of Energy said a revised estimate of the cost to plan, build, and operate…
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Nuclear power plant design, licensing, construction, operation and maintenance, refueling, and uprating.
Australia considers seabed sequestration legislation If the Australian Parliament passes legislation that was introduced by the minister of resources and energy in mid-June, the country could have the world’s first…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) extended forecast of electricity consumption requirements—as shaped by demographic trends, migration patterns, and population growth—suggests a 40% increase from current levels by 2030. To…
Thirty years after the U.S. government began assessing if a remote ridge in the Mojave Desert 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev., was suitable for the nation’s first permanent…
It is rare indeed to witness, at an otherwise staid industry forum, the public rebuke of the country’s most prominent supplier to the electric power industry. But at the Keynote…
A week before the Preakness and two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, it was an atomic horse race in Baltimore. Reactor vendors trotted out their technologies at the ELECTRIC POWER…
National Grid divested of Ravenswood London-based National Grid plc will sell Ravenswood Generating Station (Figure 1), a facility in Queens, N.Y., that provides more than 20% of New York City’s…
The convergence was too obvious to ignore. February 5, 2008, political Super Tuesday, saw voters in 24 states make their choices for Republican and Democratic nominees for president. Sen. John…
In any technology-based business, after its scientists unlock nature’s secrets, its engineers use that knowledge to design new products that we eventually can’t live without. Without scientists, there are no…
What a difference a month makes. No sooner did the FutureGen Alliance announce its long-awaited decision about the location of the zero-emissions demonstration plant than the DOE did an abrupt…