Skip to main content

Home/ nuke.news/ Group items matching "utility-industry" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Energy Net

Finnish govt grants permissions to 2 nuclear reactors | Reuters - 0 views

  •  
    "Govt picks TVO, Fennovoima to build new nuclear reactors * Says no to utility Fortum * Says aims to make Finland electricity self-sufficient Finland's government granted on Wednesday a permission to utility Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) and consortium Fennovoima to build new nuclear power stations, but rejected Fortum's (FUM1V.HE) application. "We are giving a strong signal to the industry that it is worthwhile to invest in Finland. Granting one (nuclear reactor) permission is not enough," Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of the Economy, told a news conference."
Energy Net

U.S. firm sheds liability for Canadian nuclear peril - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • Nuclear plant supplier GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy shielding finances from the risks of an accident at a Canadian nuclear station Share with friends Close Email Please enter a valid e-mail address Please enter a comma delimited list of valid e-mail addresses Other ways of sharing: Tweet this on Twitter Share on Facebook Add to Delicious Submit post to Digg.com Seed this post at Newsvine Print or License Close Print this page License this story Recommend | 11 Times   Article   Comments (29)   $(document).ready(function(){ art.dividers = $('#article-tabs li.divider'); art.allCommentsRetrieved = false; art.type = "news"; art.tinyFlash = ""; if (location.hash) { $('#article-tabs li a').each(function(i) { if (this.href.split('#')[1] == location.hash.split('#')[1]) { art.defaultSelected = i; art.tabContext = this.href.split('#')[1]; art.intialTabContext = art.tabContext; } }); if (art.intialTabContext == "video") { $('#article-rail .boxr').each(function(i,box) { box.id == "coAd" ? $(box).show() : $(box).hide(); }); } } else { if (art.type == 'picturecollection') { art.tabContext = 'photos'; } else if (art.type == 'flash') { art.tabContext = 'interactive'; } else if (art.type == 'videotabbed') { art.tabContext = 'video'; } else { art.tabContext = 'article'; } art.defaultSelected = 0; } art.isInitialWideStateRequest = function(content) { return ((content == 'photos' || (content == 'interactive' && art.tinyFlash != "true")) && (art.intialTabContext != 'undefined' && art.intialTabContext != null)); } art.initiateWideTabRequest = function(content, height) { height = height + 35; var wideName = content + '-ctr'; $('#'+wideName).addClass('selected').css({paddingTop: height+'px'}); $('#article-rail').css({paddingTop: height+20+'px'}); $('#article-relations').css({paddingTop: height+'px'}); art.intialTabContext = null; } art.controlComments = function(content) { // This is needed so the comments do NOT display twice on the comments tab if(content=='comments') { globalPluckLocation = "comments"; if (!art.allCommentsRetrieved) { globe.pluck.getComments(1,null, globalPluckOrder); art.allCommentsRetrieved = true; } $('#latest-comments').hide(); } else { globalPluckLocation = content; $('#latest-comments').show(); } } art.tabbify = function() { var selected = $('#article-tabs li.ui-tabs-selected')[0]; $(art.dividers).removeClass("right-selected").removeClass("left-selected"); $(selected).prev().addClass("left-selected"); $(selected).next().addClass("right-selected"); } art.growTabs = function(content) { $('.wide-container').removeClass('selected').css({paddingTop: 0}); var contentHeight = $('#'+content).height(); var padding = contentHeight+35; var widePdgTop = padding + 'px'; var wideName = content + '-ctr'; if (content == "interactive" && art.tinyFlash == "true") { return; } else { $('#'+wideName).addClass('selected').css({paddingTop: widePdgTop}); $('#article-relations').css({paddingTop: widePdgTop}); $('#article-rail').css({paddingTop: padding+20+'px'}); } } art.getGalleryImages = function(collectionId) { if (!art.galleryImages) { art.galleryImages = new Array(); var gimg = $("#gallery-image"); var url = "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/template/ver1-0/ajax/pictureCollectionImages.jsp"; var params = { articleId: collectionId, start: 0, version: 'gm-f' //cacheTime: '15m' }; $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: url, data: params, dataType: 'json', success: function(json) { $.each(json.images, function(i, image) { art.galleryImages.push(image); art.galleryImages[i][0] = new Image(); art.galleryImages[i][0].src = image.src; }); // end each setTimeout(function() { $('#photo-meta p.caption', gimg).text(art.galleryImages[0].caption); $('#photo-meta p.credit em', gimg).text(art.galleryImages[0].credit); $('#photo-count', gimg).text('1 of '+art.galleryImages.length); $('img', gimg).attr({ src: art.galleryImages[0][0].src, alt: art.galleryImages[0].alt, width: art.galleryImages[0].width, height: art.galleryImages[0].height }); $('#galleryLoading', gimg).fadeOut(200, function() { $(this).remove(); $(gimg).removeClass('loading').addClass('gimg-0'); $('#gallery-controls').fadeIn(1000); $('#photo-meta',gimg).fadeIn(1000); $('img',gimg).fadeIn(1000); }); }, 200); }, error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { $('#galleryLoading') .css({'background-image': 'none', 'width': '60%', 'text-align': 'left'}) .html("This gallery's images aren't loading properly. We're looking into it.Sorry for the inconvenience."); console.log('Gallery error status: '+textStatus+ ' Error thrown: '+errorThrown); } }); } } art.showTab = function(event, ui, content, wideTab) { var content = ui.tab.hash.split('#')[1]; // ie. photos, article, comments, interactive art.controlComments(content); if (art.type == "flash" && art.tinyFlash == "true") { return; } var contentHeight = $('#'+content).height(); if (art.type == 'picturecollection') { contentHeight+=45; } else { contentHeight+=35; } if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version=='6.0' && (art.type=='picturecollection' || art.type=='flash')) { var fixIE6 = true; } if (content == wideTab) { $('.wide-container').addClass('selected'); if (fixIE6) { $('#article-content').css({overflow: 'visible'}); } else { $('#article-rail').css({paddingTop: contentHeight+'px'}); } $('#article-relations .relation:first').css({borderTopColor: '#fff'}); } else { if (fixIE6) { $('#article-content').css({overflow: 'hidden'}); } $('.wide-container').removeClass('selected'); $('#article-relations .relation:first').css({borderTopColor: ''}); } if (art.type == 'picturecollection') { art.getGalleryImages(1381240); } } art.resetWideTabs = function(removePadding) { if (removePadding) { $('#article-content .wide-container').removeClass('selected').css({paddingTop: 0}); $('#article-content #article-relations').css({paddingTop: 0}); } else { $('#article-content .wide-container').removeClass('selected'); } // since the container has had it's position reset to static (rather than absolute // when related to a news article, there's no need to remove padding on #article-relations) $('#article-rail').css({paddingTop: 0}); } art.registerOmniTab = function(tab) { // omniture if (art.tabContext == tab) { return; } art.tabContext = tab; var hierarchy = s.hier1.split(':'); hierarchy.pop(); hierarchy.push(tab); var newHierarchy = ''; $.each(hierarchy, function(i,val) { if (i!=0) { newHierarchy
  •  
    Nuclear plant supplier GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy shielding finances from the risks of an accident at a Canadian nuclear station One of the world's largest nuclear plant suppliers has ordered its Canadian division to hermetically seal itself off from its U.S. parent, going so far as to forbid engineers at the U.S. wing from having anything to do with Canadian reactors. The move by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is spurred by concerns about liability - if an accident at a Canadian plant spreads damage across the border, Americans might be able to sue the parent company. The result is a Canadian company cut off from the technical advances of its parent, a leading player in the industry. The company also won't allow any equipment built or designed by the U.S. parent to be used in Canadian reactors for the same reason.
  •  
    Nuclear plant supplier GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy shielding finances from the risks of an accident at a Canadian nuclear station One of the world's largest nuclear plant suppliers has ordered its Canadian division to hermetically seal itself off from its U.S. parent, going so far as to forbid engineers at the U.S. wing from having anything to do with Canadian reactors. The move by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is spurred by concerns about liability - if an accident at a Canadian plant spreads damage across the border, Americans might be able to sue the parent company. The result is a Canadian company cut off from the technical advances of its parent, a leading player in the industry. The company also won't allow any equipment built or designed by the U.S. parent to be used in Canadian reactors for the same reason.
Energy Net

FT.com / Columnists / European View - Stop-start revival of the nuclear industry - 0 views

  •  
    Barely a few days before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, EDF finally clinched its multi-billion pound acquisition of British Energy. At about the same time, the French state-controlled electricity group also tried - and failed - to counter veteran investor Warren Buffett's bid for control of a US electricity utility, Constellation Energy. The moves seemed logical for a French champion of nuclear energy. With oil prices hitting record highs of nearly $150 a barrel and climate change pushing governments to promote investments in clean and renewable energy, the nuclear lobby felt confident the industry was about to enjoy a renaissance. The US and the UK, countries that have committed themselves to expand significantly their nuclear power generating capacities, seemed the new promised lands of the nuclear revival.
Energy Net

ReviewJournal.com - Nuclear industry calls for Yucca Mountain fallback - 0 views

  •  
    The government affairs arm of the nuclear industry today called for President Barack Obama to convene a blue ribbon nuclear waste commission, a move that could be a first step toward forming alternatives to burying radioactive power plant fuel at Yucca Mountain. With the future uncertain for the Nevada project, the Nuclear Energy Institute is endorsing a fresh look at nuclear fuel management, an NEI official told an audience of state utility regulators. Under the proposal, the Department of Energy would be allowed to continue pursuing a license to build the Yucca repository while the study was being conducted over a 12- to 24-month period.
Energy Net

Standardized nuclear plant design eluding utility firms - Triangle Business Journal: - 0 views

  •  
    RALEIGH - The nuclear plant design favored for new plants by Progress Energy, Duke Energy and three other utilities is the subject of multiple design changes that energy industry watchdogs say undermine the concept of a pre-certified design and could delay the construction of new reactors while adding billions to the cost. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified the plant design of Westinghouse Electric Co.'s AP1000 at the end of 2005. Pre-certification was intended to help streamline an approvals process that takes years before plant construction even begins.
Energy Net

Belgium eyes annual nuclear power levy - paper | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters - 0 views

  •  
    Belgium could raise between 500 million euros ($740 million) and 1 billion per year by extending the life of its nuclear power stations, business daily De Tijd reported on Wednesday. The money would come primarily from dominant electricity player Electrabel, the Belgian arm of French utility GDF Suez (GSZ.PA). De Tijd said Energy Minister Paul Magnette would soon be submitting to the government a report that concludes Belgium cannot meet its energy needs without nuclear power. The country plans to shut its three oldest reactors in 2015 and the remaining four by 2023.
Energy Net

U.S. utilities, regulator disagree on generation | Reuters - 0 views

  •  
    The nation's top power industry regulator on Tuesday suggested that U.S. utilities don't need to build big nuclear or coal-fired power plants to fill the nation's future power supply needs. Instead, Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said future electricity demand growth can be met with a low-emission supply from wind, solar and other renewable sources, combined with more efficient use of all sources of electricity.
Energy Net

Uranerz Signs Long-Term Contract For Uranium - Nuclear Power Industry News - 0 views

  •  
    Second contract signed by Uranerz for the sale of uranium to a U.S. utility Uranerz Energy Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of uranium to one of the United States' largest nuclear operators, with plants located in several states. This is the second contract signed by Uranerz for the sale of uranium to a U.S. utility; the Company announced its first such contract in July 2009. This agreement is a long-term contract with deliveries over a five year period and pricing which contains market referenced prices, with combined spot and long term indicators, to set the final sales price. The agreement's pricing structure contains floor prices to provide Uranerz with downside protection and ceiling prices which protect the buyer from unlimited upside price risk. Uranerz continues to pursue additional uranium off-take sales opportunities to develop a portfolio that reflects a balance between market-related and fixed price contracts thus providing appropriate security to market price fluctuations, production cost fluctuations and pricing diversification.
Energy Net

Draft Law: EDF To Sell A Third Of Nuclear Power To Competitors - Nuclear Power Industry News - 0 views

  •  
    "According to a report by Bloomberg, Electricite de France SA, (EDF) Europe's biggest generator, would be forced to sell as much as 120 terawatt-hours of power a year to rivals, about one third of its French nuclear output, under a draft law to open competition. EDF, a leading nuclear power utility, operates a French nuclear fleet consisting of 58 reactors spread over 19 different sites. click for full sizeThe planned legilsation is designed to meet antitrust concerns of the European Commission, which raided EDF offices last year as part of a probe into whether the utility abused its dominant position by raising prices on France's wholesale power market. State-controlled EDF holds 85 percent of the market by volume even after it was opened to competition nearly three years ago. "The price will reflect the economic conditions" of EDF's existing nuclear reactors and "all of the costs" of operating them will be calculated by the regulator, according to the document."
Energy Net

Green River nuclear plant announces major funding source | The Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

  •  
    "The company behind plans for Utah's first nuclear power plant, Salt Lake City-based Blue Castle Holdings Inc., has secured an agreement for $30 million in private equity financing from the New York-based LeadDog Capital LP. The money would come over three years to help develop the reactors to potentially generate 4,500 megawatts of power at a new, Emery County industrial park at Green River. In exchange, LeadDog will receive newly issued common stock from the Utah company. Blue Castle, headed by former Utah County legislator Aaron Tilton, said this week the project has attracted the interest of more than 15 utilities. "This agreement provides Blue Castle with a flexible financing option that allows the company to raise and deploy capital when necessary and only under optimum conditions," Tilton said in a statement. "The structure of this capital is very complimentary to our licensing schedule.""
Energy Net

Public Citizen | Deal That Could Pave the Way for Four New Nuclear Reactors In the U.S. Is Taxpayer Boondoggle - 0 views

  •  
    Deal That Could Pave the Way for Four New Nuclear Reactors In the U.S. Is Taxpayer Boondoggle Coalition Statement on Reactors Planned for Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Missouri A transaction announced Wednesday through which Electricite de France (EDF) - the world's largest nuclear developer - will buy half of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy should not come to fruition. Not only does it increase the foothold of a French state-controlled utility in the largest energy market, but it makes it more likely that billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars will be sunk into an economically unviable industry. Baltimore-based Constellation Energy said that it would approve a deal with the world's largest nuclear developer, French-controlled EDF. Under the proposal, EDF would pay $4.5 billion to buy half of Constellation's aging nuclear assets, which consist of two reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, two reactors at Nine Mile Point in New York and the Ginna reactor, also in New York. In addition, EDF would buy up to $2 billion of non-nuclear Constellation power plants.
Energy Net

Albert Lea Tribune | Cheap nuclear power is faulty accounting - 0 views

  •  
    Your utility bills have carried a surcharge of $27 billion for nuclear power. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 required nuclear power providers to contribute to the Nuclear Waste Fund, which funds were to build a Nuclear Waste Repository by 1998. This repository is yet to open, leaving our government open to lawsuits. Our government has spend $94 million defending itself against breach of contract resulting in a $420 million judgment for the plaintiffs. Outstanding liabilities are in the billions. Should the repository at Yucca Mountain become operational it could hold existing and future wastes from the nukes already built. Yucca Mountain could not hold the wastes from an expanded nuclear power industry. Wait! That's not all folks!
Energy Net

City Room™ - Chicago Matters - Changes May Be in Store for Commercial Nuclear Power in Illinois - 0 views

  •  
    Illinois was once the cradle of the commercial nuclear power industry. In fact, utilities built so many reactors the Prairie State is still number one in nuclear generation. In 1987, though, Illinois turned its back on that legacy. Concern over nuclear waste and high costs led to a ban on any new nuclear plants. Recently, one legislator suggested Illinois repeal that moratorium and consider a nuclear renaissance.
Energy Net

PGN Reactors likely to cost $9 billion: Progress Energy doubles estimate - 0 views

  •  
    Building two nuclear reactors in Wake County could cost Progress Energy customers more than $9.3 billion. The cost estimate, disclosed this month to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is Progress Energy's latest projection for the Shearon Harris proposal. It doubles the previous estimate of $4.4 billion provided in February, when the Raleigh utility applied to the NRC for a license to build two reactors at the site in Wake County. For nuclear critics, soaring costs offer the strongest case against building new plants. The power industry has long argued that nuclear plants produce the cheapest electricity, but those arguments have been buried under an avalanche of contrary evidence.
Energy Net

Nuclear reprocessing is risky and impractical | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville News - 0 views

  •  
    Apowerful bipartisan duo, Rep. James Clyburn and Sen. Lindsey Graham, recently joined forces to support "nuclear reprocessing." We urge these gentlemen to temper their enthusiasm. For the past year, we served on the Governor's Climate, Energy & Commerce Advisory Committee. CECAC represented a wide range of interests, including utilities, industry and banking. CECAC's final report concluded that nuclear energy is an important part of the state's energy future. However, we adopted an extremely cautious position on reprocessing.
Energy Net

Time to turn our backs on the failing nuclear industry | Greenpeace UK - 0 views

  •  
    Friday's announcement that French state owned utility Electricite de France (EDF) had pulled out of a takeover bid for British Energy has left Gordon Brown's nuclear aspirations in disarray. It was widely expected that, following months of negotiation, a deal would have been struck and a statement read to the sound of popping corks, but instead a rather sombre delivery was given to a stunned room.
Energy Net

Alan Farago: Nuclear Florida - 0 views

  •  
    There is a reason Miami-Dade County in Southern Florida is the first place where America's utility industry is moving forward with new nuclear capacity in three decades. In Miami, Florida Power & Light found public officials malleable as silly putty, willing to allow a local agreement with a wink to substitute for solid facts that the public had the right to know: where the cooling water will come from at a time of chronic drought, where the water--more than 50 million gallons per day-- will go when it is evaporated, and what will its effects be on public health and the environment
Energy Net

Harvey Wasserman: The Crash of France's Nuclear Poster Child - 0 views

  •  
    The myth of a successful nuclear power industry in France has melted into financial chaos. With it dies the corporate-hyped poster child for a "nuclear renaissance" of new reactor construction that is drowning in red ink and radioactive waste. Areva, France's nationally-owned corporate atomic façade, has plunged into a deep financial crisis led by a devastating shortage of cash. Electricite de France, the French national utility, has been raided by European Union officials charging that its price-fixing may be undermining competition throughout the continent.
Energy Net

Business News for the Central Pennsylvania region including the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas - CentralPennBusiness.com - 0 views

  •  
    Remember when Republicans were welded to the notion that entrepreneurs should decide what constitutes the most prudent investment? Wasn't it yesterday that conservatives proclaimed that the market is best suited to determine what technology should move America forward? Jim Rubens, former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, observed, "My party, the Republican party, is too deep in bed with the coal, oil and electric utility industries to remember its free market principles." Turns out politicians from both parties know what's best after all. Welcome to this century's version of corporate socialism.
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 of 126 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page