Nuclear News Update 9/1

Iran: Bushehr nuclear reactor reaches full capacity USA TODAY Iran's deputy nuclear chief, Mohammad Ahmadian, said the reactor at the Bushehr power plant was brought to its "full capacity of 1,000 megawatts" Friday evening. The reactor went into operation for the first time last year at minimum capacity. The ...

Calvert Cliffs nuclear power project facing 60-day deadline Baltimore Sun Once promoted as the vanguard of a "nuclear renaissance," a proposed new reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Southern Maryland now faces a major new roadblock, with federal regulators threatening to shelve the troubled $9.6 billion ...

Nonaligned nations back Iran on nuclear power, but not on Syria Bend Bulletin TEHRAN — The 120-nation Nonaligned Movement handed its host Iran a diplomatic victory Friday, unanimously decreeing support for the disputed Iranian nuclear energy program and criticizing the U.S.-led attempt to isolate and punish Iran with unilateral ...

Report: IAEA's findings may move up plans for Ynetnews The recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which indicated that Iran is forging ahead with its nuclear program, has strained the tense relationship between the West and the Islamic Republic further. The IAEA's report, released ...

India should deprioritise Nuclear Energy Moneycontrol.com The book looks at the history of nuclear power in India. The Department of Energy had made a series of projections for how much nuclear power would contribute to India's energy production over the past 60 years. These projections have not come through.

Fuel loading in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project likely next week Economic Times CHENNAI: A day after the Madras High Court cleared decks for the commissioning of unit-1 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, a senior official at the plant today said they would commence loading real fuel in the Indo-Russian venture by the end of next ...

Officials must decide if Crystal River nuclear plant is needed Tampabay.com For three years, the broken Crystal River nuclear power plant has been little more than a monument to Progress Energy's failure to pull off a relatively routine upgrade project. The question now is not when the plant will return to service, or the ... S

Georgia Power says cost of new nuclear units up $116 mil since February Platts Georgia Power's share of costs for the 2,200-MW Vogtle nuclear plant expansion has risen by $116 million since February to $6.2 billion and is now above what state regulators said the utility could recover from ratepayers, according to a filing Friday ...

Why Do We Hold Renewable Energy to a Different Standard than Fossil Fuels ... CleanTechnica Now that renewables are receiving some of the same incentives that fossil fuels have enjoyed for nearly one hundred years, we're suddenly being inundated with calls for a purely “free-market” approach to energy development from politicians on the right ...

The GOP is wrong to say Obama cut nuclear weapons budget Washington Post “The United States is the only nuclear power not modernizing its nuclear stockpile,” the platform warns. “It took the current administration just one year to renege on the President's commitment to modernize the neglected infrastructure of the nuclear ...