Battle River#5 came back online at 16:26…A company that employs 2,400 people in the Lynchburg area announced an alliance Wednesday with a global contractor to develop and deploy the world’s first commercially viable small modular nuclear power plant – Lynchburg-based Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy and Bechtel Power Corp. Babcock & Wilcox has been developing its mPower reactor, capable of generating 125MW of electricity from a reactor about 12 feet wide by 75 feet long. The alliance between the corporations will be known as Generation mPower and, pending regulatory approval and other factors, could deploy its first plant by 2020…Rio Tinto Alcan is expected to take a $100 million (U.S.) hit to its operating income in the second half of 2010 because of low snow and rain levels in Quebec. Low water levels and other factors have constrained Rio Tinto’s ability to produce power for its Quebec smelters, forcing it to buy more electricity than normal or curtail output. Rio’s aluminum smelters are located mainly in the Saguenay region of northeastern Quebec, which has faced the warmest winter in 50 years…According to a report released today by Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, refurbishing nuclear facilities at Bruce and Darlington will create 25,000 jobs in the next decade and inject $5 billion into the Ontario economy annually. The current Integrated Power System Plan calls for the refurbishment of all nuclear units at both the Bruce and Darlington sites. Collectively they produce 10,000MW or over 50 percent of Ontario’s electricity.
Battle River#5 Online; Mini Nukes Almost Ready; Rio Tinto Takes Hit on Low Water in Quebec
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