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		<title>Virginia Representative Wittman Visits AREVA Newport News</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/28/virginia-representative-wittman-visits-areva-newport-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his Weekly Washington Update, Virginia Representative Rob Wittman discussed his recent visit to the AREVA Newport News facility under development in Newport News Virginia.  As part of a joint venture with Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, AREVA is working to construct a facility that will manufacture the heavy components for nuclear power plants.  More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AREVA Responds to NRC Communication on I&amp;C System</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/23/areva-responds-to-nrc-communication-on-ic-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AREVA is the industry leader in development and implementation of digital Instrumentation and Controls (I&#038;C) systems for existing nuclear power plants as well as new plants being constructed and licensed. We recognize and appreciate the need for a comprehensive and independent review by the regulator, in each country, where our systems are licensed and deployed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post Weighs in on Nuclear Waste Management</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/19/washington-post-weighs-in-on-nuclear-waste-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jarret Adams
An editorial in today’s Washington Post urges the government, “Don&#8217;t let politics drive a nuclear-waste decision,” a wise bit of advice given the current state of America’s nuclear waste management strategy. It points out the difficulty faced by the Blue Ribbon Commission in making a recommendation on the nation’s nuclear waste management policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Ribbon Commission Tours Hanford Site</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/15/blue-ribbon-commission-tours-hanford-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jarret Adams
About a dozen members of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future yesterday toured the Department of Energy’s Hanford site near Richland, Wash. This panel, which is charged with developing a recommendation on managing the nation’s nuclear waste, heard testimony from local government officials and American Indian tribes during the course of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Unexpected in AREVA’s Recent Announcement</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/12/something-unexpected-in-areva%e2%80%99s-recent-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Curtis Roberts, Renewables Communications Manager, North America
AREVA’s recent agreement with the province of New Brunswick and the utility NB Power reveals an innovative approach to meeting current and future carbon-free energy demand.
As you would expect from AREVA, the agreement includes building a nuclear power plant, in this case, one of AREVA’s mid-sized light water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AREVA Accepts Conditional Commitment for DOE Loan Guarantee for Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/07/areva-accepts-conditional-commitment-for-doe-loan-guarantee-for-eagle-rock-enrichment-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AREVA has accepted the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) offer of a conditional commitment to issue a $2 billion loan guarantee to support construction of the Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility, AREVA’s $3 billion state-of-the-art gas centrifuge enrichment plant in Bonneville County, Idaho.
The plant will provide American energy security by helping to secure the supply of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Nuclear Energy, Energy Independence and Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/07/06/thoughts-on-nuclear-energy-energy-independence-and-independence-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an opinion editorial published today in The Seattle Times, Mike Lawrence, an industry expert, discusses the drivers that have put nuclear energy in the spotlight again.  
  He notes that the main reasons for this resurgence are, the need for low-carbon energy sources, greater energy security, and large population growth, arguing that “nuclear energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety in Nuclear Industry is a Mindset and Culture</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/06/25/safety-in-nuclear-industry-is-a-mindset-and-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Katherine Berezowskyj
 Yes, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were accidents, but they were also lessons that strengthened safety mentality.  These lessons ushered a new level of safety, observation, and prevention.  There is no “propensity to underestimate the chances of ‘low probability, high cost events’,” in the nuclear industry, as the nuclear industry knows that no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IEA: One Quarter of Global Electricity could be Generated from Nuclear Power by 2050</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/06/16/iea-one-quarter-of-global-electricity-could-be-generated-from-nuclear-power-by-2050/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an announcement concerning the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap published today, the International Energy Agency declared that “nuclear energy is one of the key low-carbon energy technologies.”
As part of the IEA scenario to reach a 50% cut in energy-related CO2 emissions by 2050, the organization has proposed that nuclear energy capacity grow threefold, to 1,200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate from TED: Does the World Need Nuclear Energy?</title>
		<link>http://us.arevablog.com/2010/06/11/debate-from-ted-does-the-world-need-nuclear-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want an honest debate about nuclear energy? 
Watch here as Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson have an environmentalist row over global energy options:

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