An Areva prismatic steam-cycle high-temperature gas-cooled reactor concept has been selected by the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industry Alliance as the optimum design for next generation ...

8 March 2010– The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $40 million to Westinghouse and General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP). The ...

The US Department of Energy has appealed to industry on "how best to achieve the goals and meet the requirements" of its Next Generation Nuclear Plant project. It wants to finalize the conceptual ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San ...

Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Industry Alliance last week announced that it had received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a 50/50 cost-shared contract to continue ...