{"id":427541,"date":"2010-03-16T00:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2010-03-16T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:36:36","slug":"department-of-energy-announces-40-million-to-develop-the-next-generation-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/427541","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Energy Announces $40 Million To Develop The Next Generation Nuclear Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9011\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"nuclear-energy\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nuclear-energy.jpg\" alt=\"nuclear-energy\" width=\"69\" height=\"69\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">(DOE, March 8, 2010) \u2013 U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego-based General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).\u00a0 The results of this work will help the Administration determine whether to proceed with detailed efforts toward construction and demonstration of the NGNP.\u00a0 If successful, the NGNP Demonstration Project will demonstrate high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology that will be capable of producing electricity as well as process heat for industrial applications and will be configured for low technical and safety risk with highly reliable operations.\u00a0 Final cost-shared awards are subject to the negotiation of acceptable terms and conditions.\u00a0 About 16 percent of the Nation&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions come from industrial process heat applications.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/news\/8723.htm\" >Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(DOE, March 8, 2010) \u2013 U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego-based General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).\u00a0 The results of this work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}