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Saturday, September 19, 2015

The Chicken & Egg Conundrum of Forging a Future for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

The Chicken & Egg Conundrum of Forging a Future for Advanced Nuclear Reactors



http://www.theenergycollective.com/dan-yurman/2271256/chicken-egg-conundrum-forging-future-advanced-nuclear-reactors

Is going nuclear the key for more sustainable energy?

Is going nuclear the key for more sustainable energy?


http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/nuclear-energy-future-18092015/

Nuclear News Roundup for September 19, 2015

http://neutronbytes.com/2015/09/19/nuclear-news-roundup-for-september-19-2015/

Failure to Protect U.S. Against Electromagnetic Pulse Threat Could Make 9/11 Look Trivial Someday

Failure to Protect U.S. Against Electromagnetic Pulse Threat Could Make 9/11 Look Trivial Someday


http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2014/07/31/protecting-the-u-s-against-the-electromagnetic-pulse-threat-a-continued-failure-of-leadership-could-make-911-look-trivial-someday/

California Utilities Plan For A Cleaner Electric Grid


California Utilities Plan For A Cleaner Electric Grid
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog, Friday, September 18, 2015 10:00 AM
California Power Grid Strained By Heat Wave
California’s “big three” utilities are taking important steps toward achieving a clean energy future – one in which we will better utilize renewable sources of energy, give customers more choice and control, and keep the state on course to cut pollution. One way they are doing this is through Distribution Resource Plans (DRPs). Signed into state… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/18/california-utilities-plan-for-a-cleaner-electric-grid/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22168021&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_EzbYsm9XUCuiLJLuxYW_gp1ASuecyjg7k5uP9LIaVkEyjbjYcggsDWRhntIBCH6ad9Tb3WRMNbS6r6oe6CtPPudj2bQ&_hsmi=22168021

Energy News Roundup: Storage Could Boom, Energy Companies Defaulting & Wind’s Health Hazard


Energy News Roundup: Storage Could Boom, Energy Companies Defaulting & Wind’s Health Hazard
By Conor O'Sullivan, Friday, September 18, 2015 11:48 AM
California Faces Continued Energy Woes
Home energy storage is entering a new era as advanced lithium-ion chemistries are offering longer life-spans that could soon flood the market. [MIT Technology Review] The default rate among U.S. energy companies has accelerated in recent months to 4.8%, the highest level since 1999 and up from 3.3% in August, according to Fitch Ratings. [WSJ]… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/18/energy-news-roundup-storage-could-boom-energy-companies-defaulting-winds-health-hazard/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22168021&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Ie1Y_xW3bbinBkJIUXK9u9-MFAE2HVWdV3zrZegUNvIVNlrpVOqfkeuSX8TPdayiGtCiso7g6imIjPlFWXR5wXjmcog&_hsmi=22168021

Lift The Oil Export Ban, Strengthen America


Lift The Oil Export Ban, Strengthen America
By Energy Tomorrow Blog, Friday, September 18, 2015 2:00 PM
Crude Oil Carrier Hijacked By Somali Pirates
So here we are: Legislation that would end America’s 40-year-old ban on the export of domestic crude oil is moving through Congress – and better, there’s bipartisan momentum behind it. Resistance to lifting the crude exports ban has no credible footholds – reflecting the breadth of the economic analysis supporting exports. There’s also the realization… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/18/lift-the-oil-export-ban-strengthen-america/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22168021&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8fSl-O6tAJCjkl4RoqKWoIMr1wLYKYOVLmr5ls_jc2xwPZDBF5vuhG_dlN8X9Yg8YKi3iY05gm3g5HZaquvPunKWwpPg&_hsmi=22168021

Energy Department Selects Five Projects In First Step To Produce Fresh Water From CO2 Storage Sites

Energy Department Selects Five Projects In First Step To Produce Fresh Water From CO2 Storage Sites
By U.S. Department of Energy, Friday, September 18, 2015 4:50 PM
CHINA-WEATHER-DISASTER-FLOOD
Today, the Department of Energy announced the selection of five projects that will study the feasibility of using salty water – or brine – from carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites to produce fresh water. These projects – which will receive more than $7 million in funding from the Department – will develop and validate strategies… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2015/09/18/energy-department-selects-five-projects-in-first-step-to-produce-fresh-water-from-co2-storage-sites/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22168021&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99gxSBYyKvVlU4JRVmQcWB1bwpgo_VihBwYZoOByReWfEyIUGPv8zKWs-POaW7Ge5KMTBg1d2LH3ak0xsKx1u0H1N32g&_hsmi=22168021

nternational Nuclear Safety Journal (INSJ) Special Issue on the 5 Years Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident


Announcement in Nuclear Safety
 
 
 
 
International Nuclear Safety Journal (INSJ) Special Issue on the 5 Years Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
 
announcerFullName
 
Madalina Tronea
nuclear safety adviser at CNCAN
 
 
Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit or recommend articles to the International Nuclear Safety Journal (INSJ), which is a peer-reviewed open access journal (http://insj.info). The articles for the special issue on the 5 years anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi accident may include review papers and original, unpublished research papers related to this specific theme.

The following list of potential topics is provided to stimulate ideas. Authors are not restricted to this list, but submissions must provide relevant and practical insights related to the use of lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident and insights into the accident, its progression and current facility status, including topics such as:
- Special reviews performed after the accident, including the European “stress tests”
- New regulatory requirements and approaches; revised safety goals and reference levels
- Human and organizational factors
- Safety culture in the organizations constructing and operating nuclear installations;
- Protection against extreme external events
- Defense-in-depth philosophy and design upgrades
- Revisions to design and beyond design basis accident scenarios; treatment of design extension conditions
- Accident management strategies, including NEI's FLEX strategy and French hard core concepts
- Improvements in the training programs
- Emergency preparedness and response; improvements in the conduct of emergency exercises
- Environmental remediation
- New knowledge regarding the core damage assessments and accident sequence and plant damage
- Assessments of seismic damage and their contribution to the accident
- Radiological characterizations of the Fukushima Daiichi units
- Decontamination efforts
- Onsite and offsite dose assessments
- Current radiological status
- Nuclear safety research
- Risk communication
- Regulatory strategies and action plans; implications for safety culture in the regulatory authorities.

The articles are expected to be submitted online through our electronic submission system on the INSJ website.
Please register (http://nuclearsafety.info/international-nuclear-safety-journal/index.php/INSJ/user/register) and submit your article (http://nuclearsafety.info/international-nuclear-safety-journal/index.php/INSJ/author/submit/1)

The Editorial Board consists of distinguished professionals from around the world and we select subject-matter experts to conduct the reviews.

Both the publication and the access to the articles are free of any charge. This ensures that your articles will reach a very wide audience.

You have the opportunity to contribute with your knowledge and experience to the promotion of a healthy nuclear safety culture at international level, by showing how you have made use of the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident to improve nuclear safety in your area of activity.

The special issue is due to be published in March 2016.

Deadline for submission of papers: November 30, 2015


J. J. Bevelacqua, Editor of the Special Issue

Madalina Tronea, Editor-in-Chief

http://nuclearsafety.info/international-nuclear-safety-journal/index.php/INSJ/announcement/view/4
 
 
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Friday, September 18, 2015

How to Achieve Peak Environmental Impact

How to Achieve Peak Environmental Impact


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michael Shellenberger



You won’t hear about it from green campaigners, but many of the key drivers of environmental destruction are slowing down. 
How to Achieve Peak Environmental Impact by Linus Blomqvist, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
(This post was written for Mark Lynas, who is co-hosting an event with us on ecomodernism at “Sense About Science" in London next Thursday evening.)
The rate of population growth is nearly half today what it was in 1970. The global population could peak as early as the middle of this century. By some calculations, the amount of farmland needed to grow food globally has already peaked. Meanwhile, per capita water use, food consumption, and material use have all already peaked in rich countries, and many developing ones as well.
Taken together, these trends suggest a truly remarkable possibility: overall, negative human impacts on the environment could peak and then decline within the next several decades.
How soon we hit the peak, and how rapidly impacts decline, depends on how quickly key trends driving the slowing of environmental impacts can be accelerated. And therein lies the rub for environmentalists: to get to peak environmental impact quickly, we will need to accelerate key economic and technological processes that greens have long opposed.
Consider population. The primary determinant of whether global population peaks around 2050 at 9 billion people or 2100 at 11 billion will be how quickly sub-saharan Africa develops. The faster Africa moves its population out of the subsistence agrarian economy and into cities, the faster population will stabilize. That’s because in the agrarian economy, children are needed to work the fields and support aging parents in circumstances in which there is no social safety net to speak of.
When families move to the city, fertility rates fall from as many as 5 or 6 to 2 or fewer. Women gain economic opportunities outside the household. Children are valued for their future earning potential in the formal economy, rather than their labor in the fields.
Rapid urbanization requires jobs in the city for those who migrate and higher agricultural productivity for those who continue to farm. This requires industrialization and agricultural modernization. A growing manufacturing base has long been a crucial way to integrate a large, low skilled population into the formal economy, and increase labor productivity. To grow more food on less land, farming becomes mechanized, relieving agricultural workers of a lifetime of hard physical labor.
Urbanization and industrialization are hard pills to swallow for environmentalists who have long valorized peasant farmers, demonized industrial agriculture, and railed against the evils of consumption and capitalism. But the evidence is clear that when people move to cities and farm more intensively, birth rates fall, per capita land use for food production declines, and pressures on forests, ecosystems, and biodiversity are reduced.
The one driver of global environmental impacts that doesn’t slow when populations urbanize and economies modernize is energy consumption. But here again, accommodating the development imperatives of a global population that remains overwhelmingly poor — while mitigating the environmental consequences of energy consumption — forces the green movement to reconsider some long held shibboleths.
The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All initiative, for instance, is predicated on the notion that much of the global population stays poor and rural, consuming a tiny fraction of the energy that citizens of developed economies take for granted. Even were developing world populations willing to accept this future, which they most assuredly do not, the consequences would not bode well for the environment.
 Large rural populations dependent on subsistence agriculture are hard on the land and hard on nature. They clear forests to make room for low productivity farming and pasture, hunt bushmeat for protein, and depend on fuelwood and charcoal for cooking and heating.
A cheap solar panel on a thatched roof hut powering an LED lightbulb and a cell phone charger can shine a light on rural poverty but can’t help large populations escape it. That requires far larger amounts of energy to power irrigation and tractors on the farm and factories in the cities. It requires roads and other infrastructure to provide farmers with access to markets and urban populations with access to commercially grown food.
Emerging economies, from Great Britain onwards, have historically met this need with large hydro-electric dams and fossil energy, which provides large quantities of cheap, on demand grid electricity to growing urban populations, industrial facilities, and large scale agricultural operations.
All energy production comes with tradeoffs. Dams harm local river ecosystems, but they also provide water for irrigation and power for farmers, allowing higher agricultural productivity and less clearing of forests for fuel and food. Fossil fuels emit carbon into the atmosphere and pollute the air but replace wood and charcoal for heating and cooking, which result in millions of indoor air pollution deaths annually.
While the environmental consequences of continuing growth in energy consumption can’t be eliminated, they can be significantly mitigated. Sub-saharan Africa has enormous hydro-electric potential and is rich in natural gas. It is possible, indeed even likely, that rapid urbanization and development in Africa might be powered by gas and hydro instead of coal.
Many poor and emerging economies are also increasingly turning to nuclear energy. China and India have both launched ambitious programs to build large fleets of conventional plants and develop a new generation of advanced nuclear technologies that are cheaper and burn their own waste. Kenya and other poor nations have launched joint ventures with China, Slovakia and South Korea to construct nuclear plants domestically.
 Nuclear power is hands-down the best source of energy for the environment, producing large quantities of reliable zero-pollution power on a tiny patch of land while the tiny quantity of radioactive waste nuclear produces is easily and safely stored.
The environmental benefits of accelerating urbanization, agricultural productivity, and decarbonization are enormous. With far higher yields on larger farms, marginal farmlands revert back to grasslands and forest. Urbanization, agricultural modernization, and rising incomes from industrialization take pressure off of parks and protected areas in poor countries.
Thanks to those factors, forests are coming back across much of the United States and Europe and many developing nations like Costa Rica have been able to protect much more of their forests and biodiversity in parks and protected areas.
Today, humans use about half the Earth to meet our material needs, most of that for food production. With accelerated urbanization, agricultural productivity, and decarbonization, it is possible that we could very significantly shrink human impacts over the course of the next century, leaving 70 or even 80 percent of the Earth to nature.
That future is by no means automatic. Accelerating the diffusion of better and cleaner agriculture and energy technologies is a program that governments and global institutions ought to be able to get behind, as they once did for the green revolution in agriculture.
To realize the our full potential to shrink the human footprint and bring back more nature, we’ll need better technologies still. We’ll need next generation nuclear plants that can’t meltdown and burn their own waste; seeds that produce their own pesticides and better tolerate drought on a hotter planet; water recycling and desalination; aquaculture that spares wild fish populations; and ways of producing meat requiring far less land and resources.
Peak human impact is an inspiring vision, and it is within sight. Achieving it will be difficult, but no technological or scientific breakthroughs nor significant economic sacrifices are required. Human societies have repeatedly shown themselves capable of overcoming outmoded dogmas and myths — not just with science and rationality, but also with positive visions of the future. We can do that again.
Blomqvist, Nordhaus and Shellenberger are coauthors of “Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation,” and work at Breakthrough Institute. 

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Michael Shellenberger, President, Breakthrough Institute
436 14th St, Suite 820 :: Oakland, CA 94612 :: cell (best): 415-309-4200 :: office: 510.550.8800 x355 :: Skype: Shellenberger

My assistant is Cassie Brunelle, cassie@thebreakthrough.org
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Sandoval: Feds lack land, water rights for Yucca Mountain

Sandoval: Feds lack land, water rights for Yucca Mountain


http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/sep/17/sandoval-feds-lack-land-water-rights-yucca-mountai/

Election 2016: Chris Christie Embraces Nuclear Energy Industry That Has Backed Him

Election 2016: Chris Christie Embraces Nuclear Energy Industry That Has Backed Him


http://www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-chris-christie-embraces-nuclear-energy-industry-has-backed-him-2102117

Tennessee Valley Authority Kicks Off A Potential Nuclear Energy Rebirth

Tennessee Valley Authority Kicks Off A Potential Nuclear Energy Rebirth


http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2015/09/17/tennessee-valley-authority-kicks-off-a-potential-nuclear-energy-rebirth/

Pilgrim nuclear plant says it may shut down Officials considering improvement costs

Pilgrim nuclear plant says it may shut down

Officials considering improvement costs



http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/17/pilgrim-nuclear-plant-officials-mull-whether-spend-millions-safety-upgrades/K2vbcLNJLwZDyj2FZReo2M/story.html

We are pro-nuclear, but Hinkley C must be scrapped

We are pro-nuclear, but Hinkley C must be scrapped


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/18/we-are-pro-nuclear-but-hinkley-c-must-be-scrapped

Can nuclear save the planet?

Can nuclear save the planet?


http://www.moabsunnews.com/get_out_and_go/article_fdf4861a-5d50-11e5-9d09-571112126fc9.html

Nuclear power chiefs assess path to new capacity growth

Nuclear power chiefs assess path to new capacity growth

18 September 2015
Industry leaders last week debated how to bridge the gap between the World Nuclear Association's vision of an extra 1000 GWe of new nuclear power capacity by 2050, and the practicalities of working within current political, regulatory and financial environments.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Nuclear-power-chiefs-assess-path-to-new-capacity-growth-18091501.html

The Latest Stats on Climate Change Prove We Need Nuclear Power Right Now

The Latest Stats on Climate Change Prove We Need Nuclear Power Right Now


http://mic.com/articles/125432/why-we-need-nuclear-power-in-one-chart

Pakistan envisions 40,000MW of nuclear power generation capacity

Pakistan envisions 40,000MW
of nuclear power generation
capacity - See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/09/18/pakistan-envisions-40000mw-nuclear-power-generation-capacity.html#sthash.WbU4vUuT.dpuf

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/09/18/pakistan-envisions-40000mw-nuclear-power-generation-capacity.html

Say goodbye to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station?

Say goodbye to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station?


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/09/18/say-goodbye-pilgrim-nuclear-power-station/ZHcZ4Y5gnhhGkXltyzQmbN/story.html

ANS Nuclear Cafe: Friday Matinee Special Feature: Atomic Venture

Friday Matinee Special Feature: Atomic Venture

By ansnuclearcafe on Sep 18, 2015 07:25 am

  This week’s ANS Nuclear Cafe “Friday Nuclear Matinee” is an extended special feature – a film entitled “Atomic Venture,” produced in 1961 by General Electric Co., Commonwealth Edison and Continue Reading →
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Report: Nuke Plants Unprotected From Iranian EMP Attack

Report: Nuke Plants Unprotected From Iranian EMP Attack


http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/091615-771391-nuclear-power-plants-vulnerable-to-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon.htm#ixzz3m2PS5S00

Industry Leaders Highlight Key Challenges in Nuclear Power Generation in the Next Decade

Industry Leaders Highlight Key Challenges in Nuclear Power Generation in the Next Decade


The 5th Nuclear Operator Organization Cooperation Forum held during the 59th IAEA General Conference. (Photo: V. Fournier/IAEA)
New strategies, tools and resilient organizations are needed to address the challenges that nuclear electricity generation will face in the next ten years, industry leaders agreed at an IAEA event today.
Dynamic nuclear, environmental and financial policies, as well as evolving energy markets and portfolios that include renewable sources are among the causes of these challenges. Managing costs and maintaining skills and expertise while improving reliability and safety robustness of nuclear power plants will be in focus.
To earn and to maintain public and regulatory trust, and to operate with excellence, finding and eliminating the issues before they emerge, is an absolute necessity.
— Mikhail Chudakov, Deputy Director General, IAEA
The 5th Nuclear Operator Organization Cooperation Forum, held during the 59th IAEA General Conference, brought together industry executives from Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea as well as from the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Nuclear Generation II and III Association (NUGENIA).
“Owners and operators have to establish and maintain a proactive approach if they want to continue producing electricity from nuclear power and doing it safely, reliably and efficiently,” said Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy.
“Learning from past experience has become the cornerstone of safe and reliable operation of nuclear power plants,” he said. “However, to earn and to maintain public and regulatory trust, and to operate with excellence, finding and eliminating issues before they emerge is an absolute necessity. This is important not only for safety but also for efficiency and longevity of nuclear electricity generation.”
Operators need to establish human and organizational resilience, which is a relatively new concept for nuclear energy, emphasized Fred Dermarkar, President and CEO of the CANDU Owners Group, Canada. “In addition to reacting to lessons learned from failures or near-misses, projecting ‘the expected’ and being prepared for ‘the unexpected’ will be needed.”
Long term sustainability of the industry requires the transfer of expertise to the next generation of managers and engineers, who need to be attracted to the industry and well trained. They need to receive ongoing training on the new safety management approach that will focus more on skills, knowledge, behaviours and attitudes, beyond simple compliance with requirements.
Controlling costs and maximizing benefits of plant improvements for efficient and long-term operations, such as major plant systems and equipment modifications and modernization are essential, the audience heard. Managing the costs of the supply chain, of ageing facilities and of safety improvements introduced after the Fukushima Daiichi accident requires new approaches. Establishing viable and economic options for long term radioactive waste disposal will also remain a challenge.
“One of the key elements in the next decade will be improved sharing and cooperation among owner/operator organizations and other stakeholders of technology, resources and experience for the safe and efficient operation of nuclear power plants,” said Neil Wilmshurst, Chair of the Forum and EPRI Vice President.
The Nuclear Operator Organization Cooperation Forum, initiated in 2011 as part of the implementation of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety , intends to enhance cooperation among nuclear owner/operating organizations in strengthening the safety and effectiveness of nuclear electricity generation. It offers a platform for senior leaders from the operating organizations and support institutions to identify and share experiences, approaches and strategies influencing safety and performance excellence in the long term.

First Three SMR Designs Will Be Online Within Four Years, IAEA Meeting Told


First Three SMR Designs Will Be Online Within Four Years, IAEA Meeting Told

http://nuclearstreet.com/pro_nuclear_power_blogs/b/nucnet-communications/archive/2015/09/17/first-three-smr-designs-will-be-online-within-four-years-iaea-meeting-told.aspx

Nuclear power chiefs assess path to new capacity growth


Nuclear power chiefs assess path to new capacity growth

18 September 2015
Industry leaders last week debated how to bridge the gap between the World Nuclear Association's vision of an extra 1000 GWe of new nuclear power capacity by 2050, and the practicalities of working within current political, regulatory and financial environments.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Nuclear-power-chiefs-assess-path-to-new-capacity-growth-18091501.html

SMR deployment info pack

SMR deployment info pack

As you know, the problems with the deployment of small modular reactors are well documented- financing, licensing and siting are amongst some of the biggest issues often raised.

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Linear No Threshold model - XLNT Group (USA NE 3)

From: John Shanahan [mailto:acorncreek2006@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:14 PM
To: John A Shanahan '58
Subject: Linear No Threshold model - XLNT Group (USA NE 3)

Dear colleagues interested in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine and low-dose radiation,
The Linear Non-Threshold model has been the basis for radiation protection regulations.  However, considerable research suggests weaknesses in this approach that merit revision. To support this revision, an XLNT Action Plan and supporting group have been established.  The XLNT Group welcomes additional members and their input with a goal of establishing a credible basis for future radiation protection regulations.  To join or provide input access the link:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XLNTACTIONPLAN ;
The action plan is available upon request via:
Dr. Mohan Doss (Physicist),  Associate Professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
e-mail:  mohan.doss@fccc.edu
Thanks.

John

John A. Shanahan

President, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA
President, Go Nuclear, Inc.

2800 S. University Blvd.  Unit 20
Denver, Colorado, USA 80210

Tel. (USA) 303 399 0393
E-mail:  acorncreek2006@gmail.com  (Acorn Creek is a hiking trail in the Rocky Mountains)

Website: go-nuclear.org   (open)
Website: efn-usa.org       (open)

Post-Fukushima Action Plan Has Delivered Concrete Results, Says IAEA


Post-Fukushima Action Plan Has Delivered Concrete Results, Says IAEA


http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/2015/09/18/post-fukushima-action-plan-has-delivered-concrete-results-says-iaea

Bechtel Projects Address Decades-Old Nuclear Waste

Bechtel Projects Address Decades-Old Nuclear Waste

Removing environmental challenges that threaten natural resources, public health and safety, and sustainability
- See more at: http://www.justmeans.com/multimedia-with-summary/bechtel-projects-address-decades-old-nuclear-waste#sthash.Hkdh6V8Y.dpuf
Bechtel Projects Address Decades-Old Nuclear Waste Removing environmental challenges that threaten natural resources, public health and safety, and sustainability 

http://www.justmeans.com/multimedia-with-summary/bechtel-projects-address-decades-old-nuclear-waste

UAE, US renew nuclear deal


UAE, US renew nuclear deal


https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/uae-us-renew-nuclear-deal-053925259.html

MIT's Dennis Whyte Wants to Prove Fusion Is the Future


MIT's Dennis Whyte Wants to Prove Fusion Is the Future

Whyte and his team have designed a cheaper, more compact fusion reactor that could actually produce usable energy


http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/09/16/mit-professor-creates-compact-cheap-fusion-reactor/

Election 2016: Chris Christie Embraces Nuclear Energy Industry That Has Backed Him

Election 2016: Chris Christie Embraces Nuclear Energy Industry That Has Backed Him


http://www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-chris-christie-embraces-nuclear-energy-industry-has-backed-him-2102117

Utility Market Transformation

http://spark.fortnightly.com/fortnightly/utility-market-transformation

US, China Research Institutes Sign Historic Clean Power Grid Accord

US, China Research Institutes Sign Historic Clean Power Grid Accord

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NREL and China's State Grid Energy Research Institute on Sept. 11 signed a historic clean power memorandum of understanding. Full Article http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/09/us-china-research-institutes-sign-historic-clean-power-grid-accord.html?cmpid=renewable09182015&eid=288118515&bid=1180086

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North Dakota Refuses Endorsement of Xcel Energy's Solar Projects
North Dakota utility regulators on Wednesday renewed their opposition to having the state's ratepayers subsidize solar-generated electricity projects in Minnesota to satisfy that state's mandate to get some power from the sun.
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Vestas Unveils V136-3.45 MW Wind Turbine, Lastest in 3 MW Turbine Class
The newest addition to the company’s 3 MW turbine class is designed to deliver high and efficient energy and reduce sound emissions in low wind conditions.
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Rutland, Vt. Becomes 'Solar Capital of New England'
Officials with Green Mountain Power, Vermont's biggest utility, have been working for years to change the way the city of 16,500 produces and uses electricity.
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Steam Generators Installed at Barakah Nuclear Power Project
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. completed the installation of steam generators at the planned 1,400-MW Unit 2 of the Barakah nuclear power project in the United Arab Emirates.
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