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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy expects to get orders for six to eight nuclear power reactors in India, with total capacity of up to about 9,000 megawatts, once state-run nuclear firms put out orders to build reactors. GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between U.S conglomerate General Electric Co and Japan's Hitachi said it could supply its advanced boiling water reactors (ABWR) once regulatory hurdles are cleared. "The rough idea of work is ABWRs of about 9,000 megawatts at the site. That's a lot of work, but it will be spread over many years," GE-Hitachi's senior vice president Steve Hucik, in India as leader of a U.S. commercial nuclear delegation, told Reuters. India signed a nuclear pact with t

Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it had won a contract to build two nuclear plants in the United States that are scheduled to start generating power in 2016. It is the first such contract a Japanese company has won overseas, covering the projects entirely from engineering and procurement to construction of the nuclear plants, the company said. Under the contract, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp., a US-based Toshiba subsidiary, will build two Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) nuclear power plants in Texas.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a schedule for the Combined License (COL) review of the South Texas Project (STP 3&4) expansion today. Based on the NRC's schedule, Nuclear Innovation North America LLC (NINA) - the nuclear development company jointly owned by NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) and Toshiba Corporation, anticipates receiving the COL for the new units in 2012. With this permitting schedule established, we can now move to complete the detailed design and construction schedules from pouring first concrete to fuel load and startup. Issuing the schedule marks the continuation of NRC's review based on a revision to the STP expansion application filed in September 2008. The revision incorporated a limited number of changes to enhance safety and increase the ability to complete the units on time and on budget using the proven NRC-certified Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) design.

Exelon Corp, the nation's largest operator of nuclear plants, has selected an alternate technology from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GE.N) for a proposed Texas nuclear plant, the company said Thursday. Exelon spokesman Craig Nesbit said the company signed an agreement with Hitachi to develop two 1,350-megawatt Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) in Victoria County, Texas.

This is NRC's official timeline chart for reactor licensing by design: AP1000 (Bellafonte, Lee Summer, Harris, Vogtle, Levy Cnty, Turkey Pt) ESBWR (N Anna, Grand Gulf, River Bend, Victoria Cnty, Fermi) EPR(Calvert Cliffs, Callaway, Amarillo Power, Bruneau, Nine Mile Pt) ABWR (South Texas) USAPWR (Commanche Peak)