TOWNHALL Q&A: ALOHA STATE SENATOR FRED HEMMINGS — FROM SURFER KING TO SMR...
Fred Hemmings is an unlikely champion of nuclear energy. The World Surfing Champion of 1968, he won several other international competitions, earning a place in the Surfing and State of Hawaii Halls...
View ArticleBACK TO THE FUTURE: TVA CHOOSES OLD NRC LICENSING FORMAT FOR APPROVAL OF SMR
In an adroit step backwards, the Tennessee Valley Authority has chosen the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s old two-step licensing procedure in a bid to construct the first models of Babcock &...
View ArticleHYPERION TO TEAM WITH BRITISH, GREEK FIRMS IN DEVELOPING A NUCLEAR-POWERED...
November 15, 2010 Nuclear Townhall Hyperion Power, the New Mexico designer of a 65-megawatt small modular reactor, has signed an agreement with Lloyd’s Register of Ships and Greek-owned Enterprises...
View ArticleRADIX SMR LOOKS BEYOND CONVENTIONAL MARKETS: TOWNHALL Q&A WITH CEO PAUL FARRELL
December 1, 2010 Nuclear Townhall From the Editors Dr. Paul Farrell is president and CEO of Radix Power and Energy Corporation, a Long Island start-up that is marketing a small, modular reactor...
View ArticleSAVANNAH RIVER:Â BREAD BASKET FOR SMRS
December 2, 2010 Nuclear Townhall From the Editors
 Former Green Movement activist Patrick Moore was in South Carolina this week urging that the state make the Savannah River Site the nation’s...
View ArticleSMALL REACTORS: ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S ’20 TOP GREEN TECH IDEAS’ FOR 2010
December 10, 2010 Nuclear Townhall From the Editors
 
In a measure of the growing enthusiasm for downsized nuclear, small modular reactors have been listed as Idea #18 on Time’s “20 Top Green...
View ArticleNUSCALE TO JOIN U.S. COMMERCE DELEGATION FOR INDIAÂ MISSION
Nuclear Townhall January 17, 2011 NuScale Power’s president Paul Lorenzini will be one of 24 American company representatives on board next month when Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke visits India on a...
View ArticleFRANCE HAS NEW IDEA FOR SMALL REACTORS: PUT THEM UNDERWATER
Nuclear Townhall January 20, 2011 France has taken the idea of “moving industry offshore” and given it a new twist – plant small nuclear reactors in the seabed and pump the electricity back on land....
View ArticleTHE REAL CHALLENGE FOR SMRS
February 16, 2011 Nuclear Townhall Westinghouse jumped into the small reactor pool with a 200-megawatt model designed to compete with several other models already proposed by small, innovative...
View ArticleANALYSTS: FUKUSHIMA MAY INCREASE THE APPEAL OF SMRSÂ
March 23, 2011 Nuclear Townhall Despite the general pause over nuclear energy as a result of the Fukushima crisis, some analysts believe the end result may be to bring small modular reactors to the...
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