Tennessee Valley Authority to Pursue 2 New Reactors
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SPRING CITY, Tenn., Jan. 28 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority will submit applications to build two new nuclear reactors under the government's streamlined licensing process and restart its oldest reactor after a 22-year shutdown at Browns Ferry, TVA officials told the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved on Thursday the first site in over 30 years that could eventually house a new nuclear power plant, but the United States is still far away from breaking ground on any new reactors.
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A council says it faces a fight to win one the UK's next generation of nuclear power stations.
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China will seek bids from overseas nuclear-equipment makers to build reactors in the country, said Shen Lixin, an official at China National Nuclear Corp.
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The British government on Thursday approved plans to refresh the countryâs fleet of nuclear reactors, and invited companies to offer plans to build and operate the plants.
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South Africa is to build a second nuclear power plant generating more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity, the government announced.
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A multi-stakeholder team assembled by STRONGER, Inc. has set June 4-6 as  the dates for the voluntary review of Tennessee's  oil and natural gas environmental regulations.
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The government is expected Thursday to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations, infuriating environmentalists who are considering a legal challenge.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency will conduct a second round of inspections at South Korea's nuclear facilities next week, government officials in Seoul said Wednesday.
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French companies Areva, Total and Suez are involved in plans to build two third generation nuclear plants in the United Arab Emirates, Jazeera Television said on Sunday.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose IBMÂ to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday. Named "Roadrunner," the new machine comes with a price tag of $35 million, the amount allotted by the U.S. Congress to the DOE's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) for its purchase. One potential use for Roadrunner is to monitor and maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. DOE officials said they would monitor the computer's development to see if it meets the criteria to perform that task. The DOE has used supercomputers to keep an eye on the health and readiness of the U.S.'s nuclear weapons, in lieu of actual underground nuclear tests. Roadrunner will run Red Hat's version 4.3 Linux operating system, and will be built entirely with commercially available hardware running two different types of processors, IBM said. The company will use IBM x3755 systems, with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, alongside IBM BladeCenter H systems with Cell processors.
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An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, N.M., the department disclosed Thursday.
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Satellite images show that Pakistan is building a new nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, an American watchdog group said Thursday, warning that it could contribute to an atomic arms race with archrival India.
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By Rob Pavey< Staff Writer  Five environmental groups, including Augusta-based Savannah Riverkeeper Inc., asked a federal panel Tuesday for the authority to make official comments involving the proposed expansion of the Vogtle nuclear generating plant.
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Plutonium from U.S. nuclear warheads &#151; enough to make nearly 20 Hiroshima-style bombs &#151; is headed for France aboard armed freighters and a new life as commercial fuel that will ultimately light American homes.
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Greenpeace feels it has stronger mandate British ministers will approve plans for a new generation of UK nuclear power plants in the new year, according to a report in the Independent newspaper.â¦
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Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them