Davis-Besse

Davis-Besse was back online this morning at 4:25 AM according to a number of local news sources. The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting th...

Yankee dirt to move West

Because Vermont Yankee is in the spotlight right now for two reasons (contaminated ground water, and the state legislature's decision no...

Vermont- are you reading this?

Considering the fact that the Vermont legislature thinks that extending Vermont Yankee's license would be a bad idea, and that it would ...

WPPSS and/or Trojan Phoenix

This article published today is an excellent summation of the Pacific Northwest's experience with and view toward nuclear energy over t...

Bechtel Corporation

I've added links on the blog page to represent both of Bechtel's general nuclear energy concerns; namely, its original design and co...

Our newest nuclear power plant

The United States has completed the latest of a very long line of almost totally successful* nuclear power plants; that aboard the USS New M...

Nuclear Journal - June 24th

I notice today on the wires that Vietnam has announced intent to place online a fleet of nuclear power plants by the year 2030; this follows...

Where'd the time go?

Well, vacation's over in 20 minutes. That was too fast. I think I need vacations more often than every nine or ten years.

Miscellaneous Nuclear News Items

DAVIS-BESSE has been given NRC permission to start up following CRDM nozzle repairs to alleviate stress corrosion cracking; the plant is ex...

Daya Bay 2; I told you so.

We just looked around enough to get confirmation of what we wrote on June 15th (see the entry if you'd like) -- the "radiation lea...

Osorb?

Yes, Osorb. Supposedly, ABS Materials of Wooster, Ohio has a material made from silicon polymer that can absorb eight times its own mass in...

Vogtle 3 and 4 funding moving along

Just a note here to confirm in this blog for completeness that Georgia Power accepted the loan guarantee made by the Federal Government thro...

Vermont Yankee tritium, Vermont legislature ignorance

Entergy has revealed that the tritium leak to groundwater was due to a very likely unforseeable combination of circumstances, related both t...

Lightbridge all-metal fuel

Lightbridge Corporation has announced a new all-metal fuel that it has been developing as of this morning. This article describes the savin...

Vacation time going by

My vacation is more than half over. I haven't taken a vacation, that is to say a trip of any sort in any serious way in about nine years...

Xenon, etc.

Last month, a six-times normal Xenon concentration in the air was monitored in South Korea. That spurred looking for evidence of a nuclear ...

Davis-Besse to install new Rx vessel head in 2011

Because of pressure from the NRC, Davis-Besse will get its new reactor vessel head in a 2011 shutdown, instead of waiting through until a pr...

This isn't commitment. It's lip service.

I found an article at the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times that really details how a utility should NOT position itself for the nuclear resurgence...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue; Finale

No update was made for Saturday nite; I was too tired! The meeting that Richard held was, due mainly to Richard but also due to the input of...

Changing the assumptions

This article , by Rod Adams, is a reprint of a 1996 article he wrote wherein he challenges the assumption that in order for nuclear energy t...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 7: FRIDAY

What a great day! After a truly event-free drive, and a quick clean-up, it was off to Richard's place to meet with some long-time frien...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 6

Arrived safe; checked in and getting settled at my hotel. Didn't see anyone else with any typewriters....

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 5

About to depart here within 20 minutes, just a bit "ahead of the advertised," to borrow a railroading term. That means that the n...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 4

About T minus 2 hr 50 min until launch here; expecting to arrive at my hotel around 3 or probably 4 PM down there in Cincinnati. Full tank ...

Sweden to allow new nuclear plants

Very new news as of this post; Sweden has decided to scrap its 1980 plan that called for phasing out all 10 of its nuclear reactors by this ...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 3

Repairs to the Alpina are complete; the last consisted of gluing back in some loose soundproofing pads inside the ribbon cover. Now it'...

Poll: Do you favor the expanded use of nuclear power to meet the world's growing energy needs?

Poll: Do you favor the expanded use of nuclear power to meet the world's growing energy needs? This link goes to a poll at the MARKETWAT...

MarketWatch - broad nuclear coverage

This article and related features, linked conveniently, give a good idea of the level field that nuclear energy finds itself on now. I...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 2

Dave and I just finished making the mechanical repairs and tweaks to an ALPINA that I'll be bringing down with me to the meeting. It...

Surry-1 update (see June 13 entry)

More details are now out on the incident at Surry 1. It seems that a vital bus was dropped during maintenance, leading to loss of power to ...

Fuel Element Failures - see previous post...

Let's take a moment to look more closely at something I mentioned in my previous post - failed fuel elements in nuclear reactors. As I w...

Chinese Nuclear Plant "Radiation Leak" (Oh, my!)

There are some rather exaggerated reports that DAYA BAY 2 experienced some sort of "radiation leak" (whatever that's supposed ...

Typewriter Convention Travelogue 1

Here I am in northern Ohio at about T minus 72 hours and counting until I launch off to the convention for typewriter enthusiasts that's...

TerraPower, Gates, Toshiba / Westinghouse

It looks like the waste-burning reactor concept is getting a little closer to reality. Bill Gates' TerraPower has $35 million to put to...

Surry-1 N.I. fire, shutdown

Surry 1 experienced a partial loss of electrical power and a brief nuclear instrumentation fire leading to a scram on June 8th. This articl...

Minor leak at Vermont Yankee

A minor leak, at least in terms of flow rate, was found and fixed the same day at Vermont Yankee, according to this report . It would seem ...

Further $36 Billion in nuclear energy loans proposed

Republican senators are proposing a new "Practical Energy and Climate Plan" which will, in part, increase by $36 Billion dollars t...

Nuclear Power in Parade Magazine, Sunday June 6

Perhaps not particularly detailed when compared with other reports, but significant nonetheless was the appearance in the syndicated PARADE ...

AEHI Inc; Idaho plant project, nuclear desalinization

Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. is touting two interesting plans; first, one for a plant in Idaho for commercial power production (Idaho is s...

Davis-Besse closer to startup

The reactor vessel closure head repairs and modifications are complete, according to FirstEnergy Nuclear. According to MarketWatch , a town...

APRA library addition

We've just added a new volume to the APRA library here, which is a part of our historical research for the study on the early history of...

Tornado damage; Fermi-2 shutdown

According to this article , severe weather damage led to a shutdown of Fermi-2 near Detroit and an outage affecting 35,000 people yesterday ...

McDonald's- Shrek Glasses containing WHAT?!

CADMIUM : Atomic symbol Cd, element No. 48, with atomic weight 112.41 AMU. Cadmium is a metal which, in common with Boron and Hafnium, is...

This sounds bad! Oh, wait.. it isn't.

I see today that ten or twelve news articles have exploded onto the net about supposed major problems found when a preparedness drill was ru...

Gulf Oil Update...

First riser cap attempt on LMRP at 9:33PM Eastern Time... Lots of oil blasting out from under the riser cap. Two ROV's shoved the cap ...

Nuke the Deepwater Horizon drill site? Oh, come on..

I won't link the sites, but several supposedly reputable news sources (and several parroting news organizations) have now written specul...

BP Oil Spill Recovery, and Atomic Power

I can't help but think, as I watch the ongoing recovery efforts by BP down in the Gulf of Mexico, about the recovery efforts at the SL-1...

Retro Days with our family

In the last couple days, I've had the pleasure of getting an old AKAI GX-4000D reel to reel tape player working so that we could play ta...

EMD sale (Railroad Locomotives)

A number of venues are now reporting the sale by two investment groups of Electro-Motive Diesel to Progress Rail Inc. Electro-Motive, long ...

ABWRs for South Texas

Toshiba has actually ordered a pressure vessel - for those unfamiliar, this is a large and heavy long-lead-time item - for one of the two Ad...

Is the public more ready every day for new nuclear?

If we look only at the fairly dry articles we see increasingly on nuclear energy, such as this one about PSEG who wants to add some new pla...

B&W / Toshiba Fuel Enrichment

As we see at this article , Babcock & Wilcox and Toshiba are going to partner in future efforts to refine and enrich Uranium to support ...

BP Live Cam Feed

BP has put up a live link to underwater ROV operations which you can see by clicking here . This feed shows undersea recovery and capping o...