NEWS SEARCH ANALYSIS INSIGHT

Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:55 AM

Nuclear Reactor

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Nuclear Reactor

description: A device in which nuclear fission may be sustained and controlled in a self-supporting nuclear reaction. The varieties are many, but all incorporate certain features, including fissionable material or fuel, a moderating material (unless the reactor is operated on fast neutrons), a reflector to conserve escaping neutrons, provisions of removal of heat, measuring and controlling instruments, and protective devices. The reactor is the heart of a nuclear power plant.

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 Documents

Calvert

Firms vie to work on new Calvert Cliffs reactor

Joseph Cunniffe sees the proposed third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs as a huge opportunity for his Sykesville-based firm GSE Systems, which develops simulation and training systems for the power generation industry.So did more than 100 companies ... [Individual.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Calvert, Reactor, GSE Systems Inc, Bechtel Corporation, Areva SA

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 Documents

Ben Verwaayen

French and Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on Nov 20

PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Below are company-related news and leading stories from French and Benelux newspapers which could have an impact on the region's markets or individual stocks.CAPGEMINIThe IT services company could use its strong cash position ... [Forbes.com - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union, Paul Hermelin, Ben Verwaayen, Didier Lombard

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Smoke seen at Japanese nuclear reactor, no leak reported

Niigata, Japan, Nov. 19 Kyodo - Smoke briefly emerged from a quake-stalled nuclear power reactor in Niigata Prefecture on Thursday morning, but no one was injured and there was no radiation leak, local government officials said.The incident took place ... [Individual.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nuclear Reactor, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Nuclear Power Plant, Reactor

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)

Electricité de France SA

PGE preparing to bring nuclear power to Poland

Polish Energy Group (PGE) and Electricite de France (EdF) have signed a memorandum concerning cooperation in terms of nuclear energy.It concerns analyzing the partnership potential in terms of constructing the first such power plant in Poland. The firms ... [Warsaw Business Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nuclear Power, Poland, Electricité de France SA

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Physics)

The Technologies for a Nuclear Resurgence

Helped by mounting political pressure, two new nuclear reactor designs are coming into play: small, safe units that can be easily sent to remote locations, and fast reactors that could change the whole energy landscape. ... [BNET - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nuclear Reactor, Reactor

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

Toshiba Corporation

Pricing negotiations leave San Antonio's role in Texas project uncertain

Pricing negotiations leave San Antonio's role in Texas project uncertainIt is unlikely that Toshiba will come up with a cost estimate for building two nuclear reactors near Bay City, Texas, that is acceptable to San Antonio, according to officials from ... [SmartBrief - 10 hours ago]

Entities: San Antonio (Texas, United States), CPS Energy, Toshiba Corporation, Nuclear Power

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Nuclear is the fuel of the future

It is about one century ago now that the beginnings of nuclear power were discovered. Atoms had been found, and then it was discovered, to everybody’s amazement, that the atom was mainly space with a small hard centre, which was called the nucleus.Then ... [Engineering News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nucleus, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Reactor, Uranium, Enrico Fermi

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

N-reactors to power villages

Tags: nuclear reactorsKalpakkamNov. 19: Small nuclear reactors will soon electrify clusters of Indian villages in remote areas that are beyond the ambit of the national power grid. “Small reactors can work with high safety over a long period and that ... [Deccan Chronicle - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Reactor, Nuclear Reactor, Baldev Raj

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Electricity imports hit France's energy autonomy

PARIS -- France has for decades been fiercely proud of its world-beating nuclear industry but is now having to import electricity from its neighbors and could face blackouts this winter.News of the imports prompted the environmental group Greenpeace to ... [China Post - 11/20/2009]

Entities: France, Nuclear Power, Electricité de France SA, Nuclear Reactor

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Afghan Refugee Takes His Case To NZ's Highest Court

Voxy News EngineAuckland, Nov 20 NZPA - An Afghan refugee, who failed in his appeal to have a police search of his home declared unlawful, has taken his case to the highest court.The 51-year-old man, who cannot be named, has gone to the Supreme Court, ... [Voxy.co.nz - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Refugees, Court of Appeal, Security Intelligence Service, Immigration, Supreme Court

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents

CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-UAE nuclear deal seen in next few weeks-GDF Suez

A consortium bidding for it includes GDF Suez, nuclear reactor maker Areva and Total, with technical support from EDF. The French team, originally seen as the frontrunner for the deal, has appeared in recent weeks to be losing ground to a rival bid by ... [Interactive Investor International - 9 hours ago]

Entities: GDF SUEZ SA, Gérard Mestrallet, Electricité de France SA, Nuclear Reactor, Henri Proglio

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Turkey scraps nuclear power plant tender (AFP)

AFP/File – Greenpeace activists lay in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara in 2008. Turkey on Friday scrapped …52 mins agoANKARA (AFP) – Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power ... [Yahoo! News - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Turkey, Ankara, Nuclear Power Plant, Consortium

Quotes

...Gerard Mestrallet, the head of GDF Suez, defended the French bid, saying that the French nuclear sector should be supported. "Today, one should not criticise the French nuclear industry, one should support it and back it" Mestrallet said at a conference...

CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-UAE nuclear deal seen in next few weeks-GDF Suez [Interactive Investor International - 9 hours ago]

...before him, Burns reassured India that it is firmly committed to full implementation of their landmark civil nuclear deal as quickly as possible. "We look forward to the completion of the remaining steps on both sides" he said, noting that US companies stand to benefit a great deal with the implementation of the nuclear deal following the allocation of two nuclear reactor...

'Ties with China not at the cost of India' [Punjabkesari - 11/19/2009]

Perhaps most damning of all, Peter Bradford, a former U S Nuclear Regulatory Commission member, made this comparison: "Counting on new nuclear reactors as a climate change solution is no more sensible than counting on an un-built dam to create a lake to fight a nearby forest fire."

Nuclear friction [San Francisco Chronicle - 11/18/2009]

...out of interfaces is considered best practices to mitigate interfacerelated project risks and ensure projects come inin onon time and on budget. "Large modular construction projects, including deep water drilling and building nuclear power plants, can be faced with managing risk associated with thousands of multiparty interfaces. Coreworx Interface Management is an enterpriseclass solution that equips interface managers with monitoring and control tools for early identification, prioritization, and quick resolution of interface issues. We're very excited to work with Fluor to incorporate lessons learned from their successful deployment of our interface management solution, said Ray Simonson, CEO of Coreworx."

Coreworx Introduces Interface Management Off... [Rigzone - 11/18/2009]

More Content

sort by: Date \| Relevance
Factbox: Indo-US trade ties [Reuters India - 28 mins ago]
Manmohan, Obama meet: What on platter for the s... [msn.co.in - 57 mins ago]
Tehran Snubs UN Security Council Iran Nuclear Deal [Sofia News Agency - 4 hours ago]
Turkey cancels Russian-won nuclear plant tender [Trend News Agency WAP - 7 hours ago]
Maryland firms vie to get work on new Calvert C... [Baltimore Sun - 9 hours ago]
CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-UAE nuclear deal seen in nex... [Interactive Investor International - 9 hours ago]
Federal parties have opportunity to increase nu... [Greenpeace Canada - 9 hours ago]
Coal Isn't Dead--By a Long Shot [Forbes.com - 9 hours ago]
Pricing negotiations leave San Antonio's role i... [SmartBrief - 10 hours ago]
Firms vie to work on new Calvert Cliffs reactor [Individual.com - 10 hours ago]
NRG initiates process to license Pallas [World Nuclear News - 10 hours ago]
What happened to containment of North Korea? [Foreign Policy Magazine - 10 hours ago]
Turkey scraps nuclear power plant tender (... [Yahoo! News - 10 hours ago]
As Nuclear Reactor Fleet Ages, Engineers Ask,' ... [New York Times - 11 hours ago]
Hyperion launches U2N3-fuelled, Pb-Bi-cooled fa... [Nuclear Engineering International - 12 hours ago]
Fairbanks Morse Engine to Supply Emergency Dies... [DieselGasTurbine - 13 hours ago]
J4JP 25th Anniversary - Article #6: Angelo Code... [Independent Media Review Analysis - 13 hours ago]
Iran criticised over nuclear deal [BBC - 13 hours ago]
Powers' dismay as Iran shuns deal [BBC - 14 hours ago]
Benefits of third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cl... [Baltimore Sun - 17 hours ago]
PM visit to U.S. comes with growing trade ties [Reuters India - 17 hours ago]
UN nuclear watchdog presses Iran [BBC - 18 hours ago]
Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan denies reports... [Azeri-Press Information Agency - 20 hours ago]
Key powers to meet on Iran deal [BBC - 20 hours ago]
PM's visit to U.S. comes with rapid trade growth [Reuters India - 23 hours ago]
French and Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on... [Forbes.com - 23 hours ago]
FACTBOX-Indian PM's visit to US comes with rapi... [Reuters UK - 23 hours ago]
French and Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on... [Interactive Investor International - 23 hours ago]
Debate on future energy in Ireland goes nuclear [Silicon Republic - 23 hours ago]
CEZ, Areva sign uranium enrichment services con... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

sort by: Date \| Relevance
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuff... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 8 hours ago] The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Increased Tension Over Iran's Program SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's recently ...
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nucl... [The Greenpeace weblog - 15 hours ago] An independent expert commissioned by Greenpeace has found the two nuclear reactors currently being built in Finland and France have serious safety flaws in ...
Betting on Beryllium for the New Nuclear Fuel T... [The Market Oracle - 17 hours ago] James Passin, co-founder and manager of Firebird Global Fund and Firebird Global Fund II, in this wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Energy Report, discusses ...
November 19 2009: Risk versus the US dollar [The Automatic Earth - 11/19/2009] Detroit Publishing Co. Fire and Ice 1900Car ferry Michigan Central turning in ice, Detroit River Ilargi: If and when the Federal Reserve moves out of the mortgage ...
French Foreign Policy under Sarkozy [IntelliBriefs - 11/19/2009] http://www.e-ir.info/?p=486Written by Arthur Goldhammer on June 14, 2008 – 9:04 am The presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy has certainly brought a change in the style ...

Audio/Video

sort by: Date \| Relevance
How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear w... [Slate Magazine - 11/16/2009]
How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear w... [Slate Magazine - 11/16/2009]
Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munch... [Slate Magazine - 11/16/2009]
Jaczko Says NRC Focused on Safety in Reactor Re... [Bloomberg - YouTube - 11/12/2009]
Trucker Tom Podcast #1189 — Control Freaks Feed... [Mefeedia Video Tag : medici - 10/28/2009]

Change Password

Log in to Silobreaker

Advanced Search Options

Nuclear Reactor