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Thursday, July 26, 2012

News Update on SMRs 7/26


B&W prepares for small modular reactor studies in Ohio
Energy Business Review
FirstEnergy Corporation, a Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) subsidiary and Generation mPower has inked an agreement for studies on the potential deployment of a small modular nuclear reactor at the former's site in Ohio, US. B&W mPower will generate ...
Little reactors
Columbia Daily Tribune
On Monday area residents got another taste of the small modular reactor potential as Gov. Jay Nixon and other boosters visited the University of Missouri to tout a possible nuclear power manufacturing operation in Callaway County. Expectation has ramped ...
B&W's small reactor design gets a boost [The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.]
Equities.com
July 26--Babcock & Wilcox's progress in developing a small modular nuclear reactor has taken several steps forward recently, including a new agreement announced Wednesday with an Ohio utility. B&W signed a memorandum of understanding with ...
Plan progresses for small nuclear reactors
Power Engineering Magazine
A proposal for federal dollars that would bring small modular nuclear reactors to Callaway County would be "transformational" for Missouri, state and local leaders said yesterday. At stake is as much as $452 million being offered by the U.S. Department of ...
FirstEnergy looking at smaller underground reactor
Upstart
Akron-based FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) is studying the potential for Babcock & Wilcox Co.'s mPower small modular reactor, which would generate 180 megawatts from its underground containment, the newspaper reports. FirstEnergy's four reactors generate 800 ...
Mo. Governor Finds Ample Local Support for Callaway SMR Proposal
Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Portal (blog)
Since Westinghouse teamed up with Ameren to compete for federal funding supporting small modular reactor development, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has found no shortage of local support for the potential project at the Callaway nuclear plant. In a speech this ...
B&W and FirstEnergy Pursue SMR Plants in Ohio
www.breakbulk.com
Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary Generation mPower and FirstEnergy have signed an agreement to assess the possibility of constructing power plants using mPower's small modular reactors in Ohio. The agreement includes an evaluation of potential sites for ...

Mo. Governor Finds Ample Local Support for Callaway SMR Proposal

Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Portal (blog) - ‎13 hours ago‎
Since Westinghouse teamed up with Ameren to compete for federal funding supporting small modular reactor development, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has found no shortage of local support for the potential project at the Callaway nuclear plant.

MO Gov. Nixon Names Task Force to Help Develop Next-Generation Reactors

Power Engineering Magazine -
Gov. Jay Nixon today announced the creation of a Local Government Task Force to assist Westinghouse Electric Co. in its bid for funds from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to design, license, manufacture and commercialize American-made small modular ...

Jungermann appointed to area nuclear task force

Fulton Sun - ‎J
By Don Norfleet Callaway County Presiding Commissioner Gary Jungermann was appointed Monday to a Local Government Task Force to help Westinghouse Electric Co. win a federal grant to manufacture small modular nuclear reactors in Callaway County.

Boone County commissioner Dan Atwill named chair of energy task force

Columbia Missourian -
BY Matthew Patane COLUMBIA — Boone County Presiding Commissioner Dan Atwill will chair a task force aimed at readying five Missouri counties for new nuclear technology. Gov. Jay Nixon announced the creation of this Local Government Task Force Monday at ...

B&W's small reactor design gets a boost [The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.]

Equities.com -
July 26--Babcock & Wilcox's progress in developing a small modular nuclear reactor has taken several steps forward recently, including a new agreement announced Wednesday with an Ohio utility. B&W signed a memorandum of understanding with FirstEnergy ...

FirstEnergy looking at smaller underground reactor

Upstart -
FirstEnergy Corp. is taking a look at a reactor that generates less than a quarter of the power of its smallest existing reactor, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission still hasn't signed off on the technology, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.

B&W prepares for small modular reactor studies in Ohio

Energy Business Review -
FirstEnergy Corporation, a Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) subsidiary and Generation mPower has inked an agreement for studies on the potential deployment of a small modular nuclear reactor at the former's site in Ohio, US. B&W mPower will generate ...
 

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