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18 May (NucNet): Westinghouse Electric Company and utility Ameren Missouri have formed a group called the NexStart SMR Alliance to advance plans to licence and build a Westinghouse small modular reactor (SMR) at Ameren’s Callaway nuclear site in Missouri.
18 May (NucNet): The Japanese government has asked households and businesses for power savings of 15 percent in the area served by Kansai Electric Power Company (Kepco), operator of three nuclear plants.
16 May (NucNet): A five-party agreement has been finalised that will extend uranium enrichment operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky for another year.
16 May (NucNet): Global energy consumption will double by mid-century and if demand is to be met the energy mix should include one-third nuclear power, a scientist has said.
15 May (NucNet): A “contract for difference” (CFD) policy needs to be in place in the UK if potential investors are to consider building new nuclear power plants, executives from RWE and E.ON told the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee today.
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