D.C. mayor pressures regulators to let nuclear energy giant take over city utility D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser reversed course and backed a proposed takeover of Pepco, the city’s electric utility, by Exelon, a Chicago-based nuclear energy giant. Now she’s urging D.C. regulators to do the same, saying the deal her office negotiated is worth … Continue reading D.C. mayor pressures regulators to let nuclear energy giant take over city utility #EXC→
The Nuclear Waste Startup Aiming to Rebrand Atomic Energy UICK SURVEY: HOW do you feel about nuclear energy? If you’re like 84 percent of America, you believe that nuclear power should be “very important in the future.” That’s according to a recent phone survey conducted by the Nuclear Energy Institute, and it includes an interesting … Continue reading The Nuclear Waste Startup Aiming to Rebrand Atomic Energy→
Nuclear Energy Market Avoids Major Disruption, For Now A funny thing happened on the way to buy electricity: the Clean Power Plan, which requires cuts in heat-trapping emissions. Its creation, in fact, may have kept alive some struggling nuclear energy plants and in doing so, helped certain states meet their carbon restrictions under the new … Continue reading Nuclear Energy Market Avoids Major Disruption, For Now→
Bill Gates’s Nuclear Energy Startup TerraPower Signs Deal With Chinese Counterpart Clean energy is a big part of the Chinese president’s agenda while he’s in Seattle. That includes a focus on nuclear power – an issue that Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been working on. In 2006, Gates helped launch a Bellevue-based company called TerraPower. … Continue reading #Bill_Gates ’s Nuclear Energy Startup #TerraPower Signs Deal With Chinese Counterpart→
Nuclear Firms see Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel as a Money Making Proposition For years spent nuclear fuel has been pilloried as a “waste” on the assumption that once it has been used, it is done, once and forever. The only thing left to do is to find someplace safe to dispose of it. That … Continue reading Nuclear Firms see Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel as a Money Making Proposition→
One Long-Term Bet On The Future Of Nuclear Energy Recently, a small, mostly unknown private player in the nuclear power arena was unveiled to a select group of equity analysts. That company, NuScale Power, is at the forefront of a major technological breakthrough that could change the way the world generates nuclear power. Moreover, the … Continue reading One Long-Term Bet On The Future Of Nuclear Energy→
Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering A Russian official living in Chevy Chase has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for arranging $2.1 million to influence the awarding of contracts with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation, prosecutors say. Vadim Mikerin, 56, of Chevy Chase, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit … Continue reading Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to #Money_Laundering→
Exelon mulls closure of unprofitable Quad Cities nuclear plant CHICAGO — The owner of Illinois’ 11 nuclear reactors must decide next month whether to close its Quad Cities plant, one of three generating stations Exelon Corp. has said are in danger of closing if lawmakers don’t approve a surcharge on electric bills to boost profits. … Continue reading #Exelon mulls closure of unprofitable #Quad_Cities nuclear plant→
Interactive tool lifts veil on the cost of nuclear energy Despite the ever-changing landscape of energy economics, subject to the influence of new technologies and geopolitics, a new tool promises to root discussions about the cost of nuclear energy in hard evidence rather than speculation. Over the last two years, the Bulletin of the Atomic … Continue reading Interactive tool lifts veil on the cost of nuclear energy→
25 years later, Seabrook remains pivotal in nuclear debate SEABROOK, N.H. —The Seabrook Station nuclear power plant was conceived during the turbulent 1970s and was under construction when accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl stoked fears of a global nuclear calamity. Twenty-five years after Seabrook began commercial operations, the plant perches in a marsh … Continue reading 25 years later, #Seabrook remains pivotal in nuclear debate→
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