Wed, Nov 21, 2012
Ameren has been dealt a setback in its efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor near its Callaway nuclear plant. The Department of Energy has chosen, instead, to finance a development project in Tennessee. The designs of the first reactors are to be ready in 2022. The Department of Energy has rejected the $452-million grant […]
Wed, Nov 21, 2012
COLUMBIA (AP) — A highly touted plan by Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse to design and build a series of next-generation nuclear reactors at the utility’s Callaway County plant lost out Tuesday to a similar plan in Tennessee, dashing the hopes of state political leaders who envisioned an atomic energy revival in Missouri. The U.S. Department […]
Tue, Nov 20, 2012
Nuclear Scientist When he was 14, Wilson built a nuclear-fusion reactor. Then, a bomb-sniffing device that impressed even the president. Now 18, the prodigy is skipping college and using a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship to try to crack the riddle of harnessing energy from nuclear fusion—a feat that plenty consider impossible. I was about 10 when […]
Tue, Nov 20, 2012
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future (MBEF) today announced its support for Missouri’s partnership for the next phase of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). The DOE announced an initial round of funding earlier today. MBEF continues to support the Westinghouse Electric Company’s partnership with Missouri’s investor-owned, […]
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
BEIJING — China has decided to approve new nuclear power plants as part of plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending the moratorium it imposed to review safety in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster last year. The government’s decision Wednesday that nuclear power is safe for China takes the country in the […]
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
China’s nuclear power output will soar before the end of the decade, but will still fall behind steady growth in the U.S., according to a new report from GlobalData. The report said China will expand its generated nuclear capacity from 87 TWh in 2011 to 470 TWh by 2020 due to a need to meet power […]
