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Current NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Exelon's Rowe says gas prices may slow new reactors
Sep 10, 2010
Associated Press
Exelon Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Rowe said he expects natural-gas prices to remain low, pushing back the construction of new U.S. nuclear power plants by a "decade, maybe two." "We think natural gas will stay cheap for a very long time," Rowe said in an interview today at Bloomberg's headquarters in New York. "As long as natural gas is anywhere near current price forecasts, you can't economically build a merchant nuclear plant." Downwinders seek support
Sep 10, 2010
St. George Spectrum
ST. GEORGE - A group of local Downwinders had plenty of questions Thursday during a discussion with medical experts and Rep. Jim Matheson in St. George. NRC head urges caution on waste blending
Sep 10, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
NRC head urges caution on waste blending By JUDY FAHYS Las Vegas • Blended radioactive waste won’t be coming to Utah anytime soon if the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission adopts its leader’s position. NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko said in a newly released memo that blended waste should be dealt with as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s low-level radioactive waste, with careful attention paid to public-safety issues. Churches cheer anti-nuke pact
Sep 09, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
When President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in Prague to sign a new agreement on nuclear weapons, it marked one more step in the religious community’s long campaign to reduce, if not end, the threat of nuclear war. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, aims to reduce each country’s deployed strategic warheads to about 1,550 each, and cut the number of launchers from the currently permitted 1,600 to 800. It also would cap nuclear-armed missiles and bombers. EnergySolutions says media blitz working
Sep 08, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Las Vegas • Public approval has soared for radioactive waste company EnergySolutions Inc. in the year since it began an “intensive education” media campaign, officials say. |
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