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Energy Projects

$4B Advanced Nuclear Power Plant Set for Former Wyo. Coal Site

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

November 20, 2021

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Bechtel will lead EPC work on a 345-MW reactor at Kemmerer site for Bill Gates-founded firm TerraPower; Southern Co. also announces demonstration project with the developer in Idaho.

Energy

Ohio House Speaker, Four Others, Indicted In Bribery Scheme Involving FirstEnergy

FirstEnergy identified as company providing money to 501(c)4, Generation Now, charged along with Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder [R] and four political allies

Jeff Yoders

July 21, 2020

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Larry Householder and political allies used more than $60 million from a nuclear energy provider to win back state post and repaid it with $1.1 billion in ratepayer subsidies, say federal charges.

Feds Offer $160M To Test Advanced Nuclear Reactor Prototype

Thomas F. Armistead

May 20, 2020

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U.S. Dept. of Energy public-private effort would help domestic firms demonstrate innovative models they can build and operate in 5-to-7 years.

FirstEnergy to Close Nuclear Plants in Restructuring

January 31, 2018

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Ohio-based First Energy Corp. plans to shed its competitive generation business, including closing three nuclear power plants, following a strategic review that will be finished this summer.

Power Generation

Still Figuring Schedule, Utility Takes Over Vogtle Nuclear Project

The delays continue with new completion targets

Scott Judy

May 17, 2017

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The utility reached an agreement to take over project management from Westinghouse.

House Approves Bills to Boost Nuclear Technology, Reshape National Labs' Management

Pam Radtke Russell

February 1, 2017

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A bill to speed approval of advanced nuclear technologies and another to change the way the Dept. of Energy’s national laboratories are managed are among a handful of energy measures the House has passed in the first weeks of its new session.

Energy

After Teresa May Review, UK Clears Path To Finish Hinkley Nuclear Plant

Peter Reina

September 16, 2016

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The deal opens the door to China to own and build the Bradwell B plant using its own reactor design.

Energy Viewpoint

Nuclear Energy: A Love/Fear Affair

Thomas F. Armistead

July 27, 2016

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America’s conflicted relationship with nuclear energy is back at center stage, and ENR Energy’s lead story explores it this month.

Contractor Shake-Up Stirs Nuclear Project's Acceleration

Vogtle nuclear expansion project’s contractors plan to increase the number of workers to make up lost time

Scott Judy

March 21, 2016

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The new contractors at Plant Vogtle, the nuclear powerplant project where completion cost estimates have ballooned to $16 billion, know that the eyes of the world’s construction and engineering industry, not to mention Georgia Power ratepayers, are upon them.