DOE, USEC talking to Exelon about uranium deal to save Paducah plant

May 20, 2013 | BY JEFF BEATTIE

With a May 31 shutdown looming for USEC Inc.’s uranium enrichment operations at an Energy Department plant it is leasing at Paducah, Ky., the cash-strapped company and DOE have turned to private utilities—and are currently talking with Exelon... More »


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Its first utility-scale plant, the 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower project in California, has only been in operation since August, but eSolar has 3,500 megawatts of global partnerships and projects and believes it will be deploying as much as a gigawatt of concentrating solar power in the next few years. With its proprietary combination of optics, software to focus its mirrors, and modular design and construction methods, eSolar is able to achieve economies of scale that overcome the main obstacles to large solar installations—price, scalability, speed of deployment and grid impact, said Robert Rogan, eSolar's senior vice president for the Americas...... Read More »

     
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The Problem Wake up. The United States is Losing the Innovation Race. While striving to be more competitive in the worldwide race for cleaner and more efficient technologies, the United States often talks a better game than it plays. About 85 percent of U.S. inventions fail to reach commercialization, and many innovative energy technologies never even make it to the prototype stage...... Read More »

   

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DOE Uranium Transfers To USEC Jeopardize U.S. National Security

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As a former secretary of the Department of Energy, I am very concerned about recent decisions by the Obama administration and both houses of Congress that impact the commercial markets for nuclear fuel goods and services. These actions jeopardize both the domestic uranium mining and conversion industries and, as a result, have a very dangerous potential impact on our national security... More

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