U.S. nuclear industry inches toward new construction
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SPRING CITY, Tennessee  - When the Watts Bar Unit One here switched on in 1996 after a 23-year construction ordeal, it was the last of a generation of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants to emerge from a building cycle marred by massive cost over-runs and canceled plant orders.
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Federal spending on contractors is expected to grow more quickly than it has historically, though not quite at the booming pace of the three years after Sept. 11, 2001.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The Energy Department unveiled legislation Tuesday to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., immediately vowed to block the bill.
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WASHINGTON - NRG Energy Inc. will submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years, company chief executive David Crane said yesterday.
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TEHRAN - An Iranian nuclear plant which atomic experts say could give the Islamic state access to bomb-grade material is nearing completion, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on Wednesday.
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The Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a nuclear reactor that produces most of the worldâs supply of a medically important diagnostic isotope.
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ATOMIC CITY, Idaho  - In the early days of the  Cold War, a small team of U.S. scientists watched as nuclear  energy powered four light bulbs for the first time.
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Hitachi Ltd. (6501.T) said on Friday U.S.  merchant power company NRG Energy Inc.  is set to pick  Hitachi and General Electric Co.  to build nuclear power  facilities for $5.2 billion, in what would be Hitachi's first  major overseas nuclear power project.
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France staked its claim to remain a world leader in atomic energy Thursday with the announcement that it would build the first of a new generation of pressurised water nuclear plants at a site on the Normandy ...
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Sen. Pete V. Domenici doesn't give up easily. The ranking Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee may be retiring next year, but he is still pushing hard to give the nuclear power industry a helping hand from the federal government.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Dec. 11--OAK RIDGE -- The U.S. Department of Energy has revised its  strategy -- and its price tag -- for one of the most challenging nuclear  projects in recent history.
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Britain is expected to give the go-ahead  to a new generation of nuclear power stations next week,  sparking a frenzy of deal-making by nuclear firms as well as a  fresh challenge from environmental campaigners.
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In a bid to take the lead in the race to revive the nuclear power industry, NRG Energy will ask federal authorities Tuesday for permission to build two reactors in Texas.
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Beijing - China planned to boost the development of its nuclear power industry to help meet its growing need for electricity as it made a strategic shift in focus away from coal, an official said yesterday.
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With 20 percent of the world's nuclear reactors in seismically active zones and the remote but real possibility of earthquakes just about everywhere else, nuclear power plants are designed with shaking in mind.
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French electricity group EDF said it had awarded construction contracts of more than 650 million euros (830 million dollars) for work on a new nuclear power plant in northern France.
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Energy companies plan to file permit requests in the next two years to build 27 new nuclear reactors in the United States, according to a U.S. regulator who said Tuesday his agency expects a "nuclear renaissance."