Bloomberg.com: GE Asks U.K. to Suspend Approval of Nuclear Reactor
General Electric Co.'s nuclear venture with Hitachi Ltd. asked the U.K. to temporarily halt the process of assessing the company's latest reactor design and will focus its efforts on getting U.S. approval instead.
GE-Hitachi requested the suspension of the assessment of its so-called Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor and will now focus its resources on a design certification process in the U.S., spokeswoman Elizabeth Kuronen said today by phone from Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Bloomberg.com: GE-Hitachi Likely to Miss Turkish Nuclear Deadline
General Electric Co., the world's biggest maker of power generation equipment, still plans to submit a bid to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant even though it will probably miss a Sept. 24 government deadline.
GE's nuclear venture with Hitachi Ltd., Japan's third- largest builder of atomic plants, is working on a bid with partners Turkey's Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS and Spain's Iberdrola SA, Jack Fuller, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's chief executive officer, said in an interview.
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BBC NEWS | Business | GE in $8bn Abu Dhabi investment
General Electric (GE) is joining forces with Abu Dhabi investment firm Mubadala Development to provide $8bn (£4bn) of finance in the Middle East and Africa.
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Hitachi, GE to develop mid-size nuclear reactors | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
Japan's Hitachi Ltd (6501.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday it will develop mid-size nuclear reactors together with General Electric Co (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to tap growing demand for smaller nuclear power plants in Southeast Asia and other emerging markets.
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Canadian firm, GE join on uranium enrichment | CourierPostOnline.com | Courier-Post
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Canadian uranium producer has joined a GE joint venture that aims to enrich the radioactive metal for nuclear power plants, the companies said Friday.Cameco Corp., a uranium producer based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, will invest $123.8 million to acquire a 24 percent stake in the venture, Global Laser Enrichment, which is 51 percent owned by General Electric Co. and 25 percent owned by Hitachi Ltd.
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G.E. Developing a Diesel Hybrid... Tugboat? | Autopia from Wired.com
Engineers are putting hybrid drivetrains into everything from SUVs to locomotives these days, and General Electric wants to take the technology to sea in a tugboat that could burn 35 percent less fuel and emit 80 percent less pollution than anything else on the water.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls meeting about local GE plant | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called a meeting regarding the GE Plant in Castle Hayne. The commission is concerned about an alert the global nuclear fuels facility issued in January when moisture may have leaked into a container of uranium dioxide powder.
The executive director of the environmental watchdog group NC Warn said it was most likely a human error. However Jim Warren voiced his concern, saying, "That's the NRC's clever way of saying there was no risk."
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Selects Wilmington, N.C. as Site for Potential Commercial Uranium Enrichment Facility
WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a subsidiary of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), has announced it has selected GEH’s Wilmington headquarters site for a potential commercial uranium enrichment facility. The planned GEH plant would result in the creation of hundreds of new technical, operational and support jobs at the site between now and 2012.
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Was Yucca Mountain the Real Reason Kucinich Was Silenced by GE? | Cleveland Leader
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"Kucinich decries GE-media conspiracy" by Politics: The Early Line - Las Vegas Sun
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Entergy, GE-Hitachi in nuclear components deal | News | Bonds News | Reuters
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