TVA plan update

MarketWatch is now reporting the same thing we noticed and reported here a short while back - namely, that the Tennessee Valley Authority is...

Some Calvert Cliffs comments

By now, many of you have read the letter that Constellation Energy has sent to Electricite de France, both of whom are partners in UniStar, ...

B&W does get a Bellefonte contract after all

Just in here is the news that Babcock & Wilcox, original reactor vendor for the cancelled Bellefonte 1 & 2 reactor plants in Alabama...

Breaking 5:45 PM EDT Weds - EDF to go it alone?

Bloomberg is presently reporting that Electricite de France, or EDA, has responded to Constellation's having backed off plans to add a n...

TVA brief update

Nuclear Engineering International is reporting that the Tennessee Valley Authority's long term plan includes an increased focus on nucle...

Pilgrim: Tritium >limits again

We note briefly now that the groundwater sampling at Entergy's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (General Electric BWR plant) near Plymouth,...

NRC Special Inspection: Robinson 2

No surprise to anyone with any smidgen of knowledge of the industry is the arrival of an NRC inspection team at Robinson-2 yesterday. This a...

Back to Bataan!

By following this link you'll see a very fascinating web page. As it happens, the Philippines began construction of a Westinghouse pres...

Funding issues for new plants...

Two recent announcements have put a little hitch in the nuclear renaissance. First, Constellation has halted further plans to add another nu...

Robinson problems...

We noted early today, and have now seen a Business Week report on, an incident at Robinson 2. It appears that for whatever unknown reason, ...

Bellefonte moving forward

On August 24th we noted here that TVA was moving toward finishing one or both B&W plants at the Bellefonte site; today we have reports t...