Report: Israel close to purchasing 3 nuclear submarines from Germany
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Report-Israel-close-to-purchasing-3-nuclear-submarines-from-Germany-470615
Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry. Nuclear Activities
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Report: Israel close to purchasing 3 nuclear submarines from Germany
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Report-Israel-close-to-purchasing-3-nuclear-submarines-from-Germany-470615
The Case for a Nuclear Energy Investment Bank
Neutron Bytes - Dan Yurman
The Case for a Nuclear Energy Investment Bank
The nation needs a government backed investment bank to secure
capital at reasonable interest rates for development of advanced
reactors.
This blog post describes the kinds of mechanisms that could be
developed to provide the capital and financing mechanisms that are the
missing links in the chain of events that need to be completed for
nuclear start-ups to get the one thing they need most
– customers.
https://neutronbytes.com/2016/10/22/the-case-for-a-nuclear-energy-investment-bank/
Consumer Interests Paramount In Pending Fuels Policy
Consumer Interests Paramount In Pending Fuels Policy
By By Energy Tomorrow Blog, / Friday, October 21, 2016 10:00 AM
The Renewable Fuel Standard, created a
decade ago to strengthen U.S. energy security and benefit American
consumers, is doing neither. The RFS is broken and should be repealed or
significantly reformed – with the interests of consumers the top
priority. That’s the message API Downstream Group Director Frank
Macchiarola delivered during a conversation with a
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Nuclear News Roundup for October 23, 2016
Nuclear News Roundup for October 23, 2016
Note to readers: Twitter was unavailable several times this week due to a series of unprecedented denial of service cyber crime attacks. This weekly report on the blog is longer than usual to compensate for loss of Twitter for breaking news. Regular posts to Twitter will return as conditions permit.https://neutronbytes.com/2016/10/22/nuclear-news-roundup-for-october-23-2016/
Friday, October 21, 2016
Why the environmental movement is important for nuclear power
Why the environmental movement is important for nuclear power
http://www.neimagazine.com/opinion/opinionwhy-the-environmental-movement-is-important-for-nuclear-power-4559455/
Posted: 20 Oct 2016 11:59 AM PDT
The
previous post on this blog covered efforts by Environmental Progess
Illinois to save nuclear plants in that very tough market space. Now,
coming up in just four days, there'll be a march in Chicago to try to
pump up attention for this important cause. You can see the previous post here, if needed for background on this very important effort.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Eric Meyer, Director of Engagement, Environmental Progress
Tel. 218.384.1645
Email: eric@environmentalprogress.org
Date: 10/20/16
With Time Running Out for Illinois Nuclear Plants, Independent, Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists to March
WHEN: Monday, October 24th, 2016, 11:00 AM
WHAT: Protest March and Rally at Invenergy and Environmental Law and Policy Center.
WHO: Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists
WHERE: Starts at W. Monroe and S. Wells St., Chicago, ending with a rally and press conference at ELPC at 12:30 (see attached map)
WHY: To urge passage of legislation to save Illinois nuclear plants
CHICAGO -- On Monday, October 24th at 11:00am, independent pro-nuclear environmentalists will march, rally, and sing in support of provisions in the Next Generation Energy Plan (NGEP) that would allow for continued operation of Clinton and Quad Cities Nuclear Plants.
Illinois legislators could still act in a “veto session” after the November 8 elections to save both plants as part of a package deal that includes generous subsidies for renewables and energy efficiency.
The march is being organized by the Clean Power Coalition, a new pro-nuclear environmental coalition consisting of Environmental Progress, American Nuclear Society - Young Members Group, Mothers for Nuclear, Thorium Energy Alliance, and the International Youth Nuclear Congress.
Coalition marchers will march on the headquarters of two organizations they view as hostile towards nuclear power — Invenergy and the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC).
“The ELPC has accepted funding from fossil energy companies including Invenergy to lobby against nuclear,” said Alan Medsker, IL Coordinator of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear environmental organization, “but we won’t let them shut down these two climate change champions, Clinton and Quad Cities.”
“There are only a few regions in the world that have actually been able to stop burning fossil fuel for power — places like France, Sweden, and Ontario — and they did so with nuclear power,” said University of Illinois nuclear engineering student and ANS student president Aries Loumis, “Illinois could be one of those places.”
If the Next Generation Energy Plan passes with the nuclear component intact, the plants will get the small subsidy necessary to remain competitive in a market flooded with cheap natural gas. “This is just smart energy policy,” said Lenka Kollar of IYNC, “Keeping these valuable assets online is crucial for mitigating climate change and ensuring energy security for the future.”
“Abandoning these plants would lead to 2 million cars worth of pollution and over 4,000 people losing their jobs,“ added Natalie Wood, President, North American Young Generation in Nuclear. "If we need to march to ensure fair treatment of nuclear power, we will.”
“It takes guts to defend nuclear power in this hostile political climate,” noted Brett Rampal, President of American Nuclear Society's Young Members Group. “But with all the information, I trust the legislature will do the right thing.”
About the Clean Power Coalition
The Clean Power Coalition is composed of environmental, academic, and industry organizations including Environmental Progress, Mothers for Nuclear, the International Youth Nuclear Congress, North American Young Generation of Nuclear, Thorium Energy Alliance, and American Nuclear Society Young Members Group.
About Environmental Progress
Environmental Progress is an environmental research and policy organization building a movement of citizens, scientists and conservationists advocating ethical and practical energy solutions for people and nature.
To learn more visit www.environmentalprogress.org,
or email us at info@environmentalprogress.org
-----http://atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com/2016/10/pro-nuclear-environmentalists-try-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtomicPowerReview+%28atomic+power+review%29
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Eric Meyer, Director of Engagement, Environmental Progress
Tel. 218.384.1645
Email: eric@environmentalprogress.org
Date: 10/20/16
With Time Running Out for Illinois Nuclear Plants, Independent, Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists to March
WHEN: Monday, October 24th, 2016, 11:00 AM
WHAT: Protest March and Rally at Invenergy and Environmental Law and Policy Center.
WHO: Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists
WHERE: Starts at W. Monroe and S. Wells St., Chicago, ending with a rally and press conference at ELPC at 12:30 (see attached map)
WHY: To urge passage of legislation to save Illinois nuclear plants
CHICAGO -- On Monday, October 24th at 11:00am, independent pro-nuclear environmentalists will march, rally, and sing in support of provisions in the Next Generation Energy Plan (NGEP) that would allow for continued operation of Clinton and Quad Cities Nuclear Plants.
Illinois legislators could still act in a “veto session” after the November 8 elections to save both plants as part of a package deal that includes generous subsidies for renewables and energy efficiency.
The march is being organized by the Clean Power Coalition, a new pro-nuclear environmental coalition consisting of Environmental Progress, American Nuclear Society - Young Members Group, Mothers for Nuclear, Thorium Energy Alliance, and the International Youth Nuclear Congress.
Coalition marchers will march on the headquarters of two organizations they view as hostile towards nuclear power — Invenergy and the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC).
“The ELPC has accepted funding from fossil energy companies including Invenergy to lobby against nuclear,” said Alan Medsker, IL Coordinator of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear environmental organization, “but we won’t let them shut down these two climate change champions, Clinton and Quad Cities.”
“There are only a few regions in the world that have actually been able to stop burning fossil fuel for power — places like France, Sweden, and Ontario — and they did so with nuclear power,” said University of Illinois nuclear engineering student and ANS student president Aries Loumis, “Illinois could be one of those places.”
If the Next Generation Energy Plan passes with the nuclear component intact, the plants will get the small subsidy necessary to remain competitive in a market flooded with cheap natural gas. “This is just smart energy policy,” said Lenka Kollar of IYNC, “Keeping these valuable assets online is crucial for mitigating climate change and ensuring energy security for the future.”
“Abandoning these plants would lead to 2 million cars worth of pollution and over 4,000 people losing their jobs,“ added Natalie Wood, President, North American Young Generation in Nuclear. "If we need to march to ensure fair treatment of nuclear power, we will.”
“It takes guts to defend nuclear power in this hostile political climate,” noted Brett Rampal, President of American Nuclear Society's Young Members Group. “But with all the information, I trust the legislature will do the right thing.”
About the Clean Power Coalition
The Clean Power Coalition is composed of environmental, academic, and industry organizations including Environmental Progress, Mothers for Nuclear, the International Youth Nuclear Congress, North American Young Generation of Nuclear, Thorium Energy Alliance, and American Nuclear Society Young Members Group.
About Environmental Progress
Environmental Progress is an environmental research and policy organization building a movement of citizens, scientists and conservationists advocating ethical and practical energy solutions for people and nature.
To learn more visit www.environmentalprogress.org,
or email us at info@environmentalprogress.org
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists March to Save Illinois Nuclear Plants: Eric Meyer Guest Post
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists March to Save Illinois Nuclear Plants: Eric Meyer Guest Post
http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2016/10/pro-nuclear-environmentalists-march-to.html#.WAqoG9yXQkgAnother nuclear plant will close for good on Monday
Another nuclear plant will close for good on Monday
http://atomicinsights.com/another-nuclear-plant-will-close-good-monday/
Press Relief: Information on EDF's nuclear fleet
PRESS RELEASE
21 October 2016
EDF PR French nuclear fleet - 21 oct 2016
21 October 2016
Information on EDF's nuclear fleet
As
indicated in the EDF Group press release of 21 September 2016, EDF is
progressing on controls in order to demonstrate that those steam
generators of the nuclear fleet concerned by the issue of carbon
segregation can operate in a fully safe mode.
18 reactors are involved:
- 6 of them have already been granted approval to restart and are operating normally: Blayais 1, Chinon 1, Chinon 2, Dampierre 2, Dampierre 4, Saint-Laurent B1.
- 7 of them are on planned outage and have been or are being inspected: Civaux 2, Dampierre 3, Gravelines 2, Tricastin 1, Tricastin 3, Saint-Laurent B2 and Bugey 4.
- For the 5 reactors currently in operation (Tricastin 2 et 4, Fessenheim 1, Gravelines 4, et Civaux 1), Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN - Nuclear Safety Authority) in its Decision No. 2016-DC-0572 of 18 October 2016, requested EDF to conduct controls before 18 January 2017.
Consequently, in order to conduct these controls, EDF decided the following reactor outages:
- Tricastin 4 from 22 October 2016 to 19 December 2016
- Fessenheim 1 from 10 December 2016 to 03 January 2017
- Gravelines 4 from 17 December 2016 to 10 January 2017
- Civaux 1 from 23 December 2016 to 15 January 2017
- Tricastin 2 from 23 December 2016 to 15 January 2017
Furthermore,
EDF submitted to ASN on 7 October 2016 a technical report supporting
the fully safe operation of all the steam generators concerned by the
issue of carbon segregation.
The EDF Group today informed the electricity markets of the chosen outage periods and is providing regular information to Réseau de Transport d'Electricité
(RTE), which has responsibility for balancing electrical power supply
and demand and for ensuring the system's security of supply.
Considering
the exceptional circumstances impacting these power plants, EDF today
called upon the Minister of Economy and Finance and the Minister of the
Environment, Energy and the Sea to take an order suspending the ARENH
mechanism, in accordance with the provisions of article L336-3 of the
Energy Code, during the first half 2017.
The
2016 nuclear output target is confirmed at 380-390 TWh as well as the
2017 nuclear output that should be in the range of 390-400 TWh, as per
the Group press release dated 21 September 2016.
A
key player in energy transition, the EDF Group is an integrated
electricity company, active in all areas of the business: generation,
transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading, energy services. A
global leader in low-carbon energies, the Group has developed a
diversified generation mix based on nuclear power, hydropower, new
renewable energies and thermal energy. The Group is involved in
supplying energy and services to approximately 37.6 million customers,
of which 27.8 million in France. The Group generated consolidated sales
of €75 billion in 2015, of which 47.2% outside of France. EDF is listed
on the Paris Stock Exchange.
| Please, only print this document if absolutely necessary. EDF SA 22-30, avenue de Wagram 75382 Paris cedex 08 EDF SA share capital €1 006 625 695,50 euros 552 081 317 R.C.S. Paris www.edf.com | CONTACTS Press office: +33 1 40 42 46 37 Analysts and investors: +33 1 40 42 40 38 | |
Smart Waste Management Market- Global Opportunities 2021
Smart Waste Management Market- Global Opportunities 2021
Asia-Pacific (APAC) to witness the highest growth rate in the smart waste management marketDownload Free PDF Brochure@ http://tinyurl.com/Smart-Waste-Management-Market
The smart waste management market is expected to grow owing to the increasing number of smart city initiatives and strict government regulations. It is estimated to grow from USD 1.08 Billion in 2016 to USD 2.37 Billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 16.9%.
The major vendors in the smart waste management market are IBM Corporation, SAP SE, Waste Management, Enevo, and BigBelly among others. The report also encompasses different strategies, such as mergers & acquisitions, partnerships & collaborations, and product developments, adopted by major players to increase their market share.https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2194822/2194822-6194375410353045508
Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?
Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?
“Building it correctly, and safely, is more important than building it quickly” – Georgia Power’s spokesman Jacob Hawkins, in February 2015, addressing a three-year delay and $1 billion in cost overruns in the construction of the first two AP1000 reactors in the United States, the first U.S. nuclear construction in three decades. Safety, not speed, is the usual nuclear construction mantra (and with good reason). Yet the situation on the ground is far more complex than is acknowledged by a simple opposition of safety versus speed. Emergent scope changes, not safety, may have been the driving factor behind most of the delays that have plagued the construction of Georgia Power’s Vogtle nuclear power plant.Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?
“Building it correctly, and safely, is more important than building it quickly” – Georgia Power’s spokesman Jacob Hawkins, in February 2015, addressing a three-year delay and $1 billion in cost overruns in the construction of the first two AP1000 rea...https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4989959/4989959-6194579901954224128
"Too Cheap to Meter" Nuclear Power Revisited
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After 50 years of operation, nuclear electric generation is still having teething pains http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/too-cheap-to-meter-nuclear-power-revisited http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/too-cheap-to-meter-nuclear-power-revisited http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/too-cheap-to-meter-nuclear-power-revisited |
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