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After Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) wrestled promises from the Bush administration, and following aggressive lobbying by energy and financial companies, the Department of Energy issued final rules on its loan guarantee program that allow for greater federal backing of clean energy projects than would have been permitted under the DOE's initial plan for the high-profile initiative.
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The head of the DOE's Yucca Mountain program has revealed that the full cost of the troubled nuclear waste disposal project appears to be 35% higher than most recently thought and that-in a proposal that utilities and state regulators would loathe-the DOE may soon recommend a hike on surcharges that nuclear ratepayers pay to fund Yucca.
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The Department of Energy recently announced how it has carved up $16 million among four industry consortia that were picked to design a spent nuclear fuel recycling center and advanced recycling reactor for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). It handed the largest slice-$5.6 million-to a team led by French conglomerate Areva Group.
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Texas regulators have halted a request by Entergy Corp. to put its electricity operations in Texas under the state's grid operator-and into its competitive power market. Instead, they ordered the Louisiana-based company to look at joining the Southwest Power Pool and report back on its findings.
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With the energy industry facing huge policy questions in Congress, Senate Republicans appear to have few members with the demonstrated interest or expertise to effectively pick up the energy portfolio being left behind by retiring Sen. Pete Domenici when he leaves office next year.
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Does your plant have dirty boiler tubes?
Then you'll want to read about the latest technique for cleaning them. "Harness detonation waves to clean boiler tubes" (POWER, October, p. 72) reveals how controlled, high-intensity sonic waves can increase your heat transfer surface cleanliness and transfer efficiency without adding new furnace penetrations. (Not a POWER subscriber? Visit www.submag.com/sub/pw.) |
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