Majority of NRC commissioners endorse AP1000 reactor design
Washington (Platts)–13Dec2011/815 pm EST/115 GMT
A third member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, William Magwood, voted to approve the final rule certifying the amended design of Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor, the agency said Tuesday — meaning a majority of the five-member commission has now endorsed the design, setting the stage for final approval in the coming weeks.
The design certification rule must be approved before NRC can issue licenses to utilities, such as Georgia…
Carbon capture and sequestration: off to slow start
By Jeff Ryser www.platts.com/newsfeature
December 8 – Mitigating the impact of carbon dioxide emissions by capturing CO2 and burying it has always been an audacious concept. In practice it is also proving to be expensive and therefore slow in adoption.
CCS, as the idea is broadly known in the power industry to describe carbon capture and sequestration or…
