SB 1138 created the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority : NO FOIA alllowed

Comments:  Why does VA want to be a nuke power when many countries like Germany and others are getting away for nuke? 

Listed below are nukes powers in VA and their problems:

B&W Awarded Contract For U.K. Waste-To-Energy Plant

February 13, 2013

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), and consortium partner Interserve Plc. were awarded a contract worth approximately $100 million to design and build a waste-to-energy power plant for waste management firm Viridor in Peterborough, United Kingdom.
The plant will be capable of processing 85,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year to produce electricity. The plant will be designed for combined heat and power purposes, and will be capable of providing steam for district heating purposes in the future.
B&W Vølund will engineer and deliver the plant’s electromechanical supplies including combustion system, fuel grate, boiler, environmental control, turbine and generator and other equipment. Interserve will provide construction and project management services

http://www.poweronline.com/doc.mvc/b-w-awarded-contract-for-u-k-waste-to-energy-plant-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a

Citgo wins millions in refinery fire lawsuit:  Babcock &Wilcox will "have to pick up the whole ticket"

Associated Press | November 8, 2006

ROMEOVILLE, ILL. - A jury has awarded $387.4 million to Citgo Petroleum Corp. in a civil lawsuit stemming from a 2001 fire at a suburban Chicago refinery.
The fire occurred when a pipe fitting burst in a crude oil processing unit at a Citgo refinery in Romeoville. Citgo filed the lawsuit against a Barberton, Ohio-based parts manufacturer in 2003 to recover repair costs and lost profit.
In awarding the damages Monday, a Cook County jury determined that the Babcock & Wilcox Co. was 45 percent responsible for the accident.
Jurors also ruled that Unocal Corp., the previous owner of the refinery, was 40 percent responsible for the fire.
Citgo was assigned 15 percent of the blame.
Babcock & Wilcox will "have to pick up the whole ticket" because it was assigned 25 percent or more of the blame, Citgo attorney Randy Donato said.

Babcock & Wilcox attorney John Donley said the company will appeal the verdict. He said that in 1982 the company told Unocal the fitting was defective and needed to be replaced.
Babcock & Wilcox is owned by Houston-based McDermott International.

An investigation showed the pipe fitting, which was manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox, was made of the wrong kind of metal.

http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Citgo-wins-millions-in-refinery-fire-lawsuit-1895310.php

Some history:

On February 22, 2000, B&W filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in part as a result of thousands of claims for personal injury due to prolonged exposure to asbestos and asbestos fibers. Claims included asbestosis, lung cancer, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma. As a condition of emerging from bankruptcy, B&W created a trust fund to compensate victims, but for amounts far less than settlements paid in individual personal injury lawsuits.^[18]

After B&W emerged from bankruptcy in 2006, B&W and BWX Technologies, both subsidiaries of the McDermott International, Inc., merged on 26 November 2007 to form The Babcock and Wilcox Companies, headed by President John Fees. The old company logo was changed.

On June 10, 2009, B&W unveiled B&W Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC (B&W MNE).^[19] On the same day, B&W MNE announced its plans to design and develop the B&W mPower reactor, a modular, scalable nuclear reactor. The B&W mPower reactor design is a 125 megawatt, passively safe Advanced Light Water Reactor (ALWR) (a Generation III reactor) with a below-ground containment structure.^[20] The reactor is set to be manufactured in a factory, shipped by rail, then buried underground.^[21][22]

On May 12, 2010, B&W announced that it and its subsidiaries would be spun off from its parent company, McDermott International, Inc.^[23]

On August 2, 2010, B&W began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as BWC.^[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babcock_%26_Wilcox

Babcock &Wilcox Company Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement ...

Babcock & Wilcox Company Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust July 7, 2006 Dear Prospective Claimant or Claimant Counsel, The Babcock & Wilcox Asbestos Personal ...

www.bwasbestostrust.com/files/Claimant%20Instruction%20

Letter to Retirees - B&W Reorganization - B&W

The Babcock &Wilcox Construction Company, Inc. and ... B&W and other companies that used asbestos in the production of equipment have been the targets of lawsuits by ...

http://www.babcock.com/about/business_units/power_generation