FutureGen picks Mattoon, Ill. In mid-December, members of the FutureGen for Illinois taskforce, elected officials, local residents, and Governor Rod R. Blagojevich (D) celebrated the FutureGen Industrial Alliance’s decision to…
Nuclear
Nuclear power plant design, licensing, construction, operation and maintenance, refueling, and uprating.
Early last month, Governor Eliot Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo—both New York Democrats—asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to reject Entergy Nuclear’s application to extend the…
Dominion applies for new Virginia reactor In late November, Dominion became the third power company to formally propose building what would be the first new U.S. nuclear unit in more…
Predicting the U.S. power industry’s 2008 performance requires understanding how utilities and other plant developers respond to risk and uncertainty. Three years ago, mercury controls had the undivided attention of…
Continued economic growth in the U.S. over the next several years will inevitably drive growth in electricity consumption (Figure 1). Meeting the projected 40% increase in national demand by 2030…
In the U.S. today, there are continual discussions about energy independence, energy security, and ways to slow climate change. But meeting the nation’s projected 40% increase in electricity demand by…
TVA may revive Bellefonte The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received the second complete application to build a new nuclear plant in as many months. On October 30, Tennessee…
SYSTEM RELIABILITY The NERC auditors are coming The persons responsible for reliability (responsible entities) at utilities and other participants in the U.S./Canadian bulk power industry are preparing to have their companies’ compliance…
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) would be entirely justified in renaming its Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power plant the “Phoenix” power plant. Not for geographic reasons (the plant is…
Comanche Peak, Luminant’s (formerly TXU) only nuclear plant, has two 1,150-MW pressurized water reactors (PWRs) that went into service in April 1990 and April 1993, respectively. Bechtel Power Corp., working…