by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The American Nuclear Society recommended that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) consider recognizing the reliability and resiliency benefits that carbon-free nuclear electricity generation provides to the bulk power system. ANS President Mary Lou...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
This is the fourth in a four-part series spotlighting the candidates for the upcoming 2021 ANS national election. Seven leadership positions are on the ballot.Today we feature statements from the nominees for the Young Member director position, which was approved by...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
A Montana Senate committee last week passed a joint resolution calling for the creation of a legislative panel to study the feasibility of replacing the coal-fired units at the state’s Colstrip power plant with advanced small modular reactors.Two of Colstrip’s four...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
This is the third in a four-part series spotlighting the candidates for the upcoming 2021 ANS national election. Seven leadership positions are on the ballot. Today we feature statements from the nominees for the U.S. director at-large positions. There are 10...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The ANS Task Force on Public Investment in Nuclear Research and Development has just issued a report titled “The U.S. Nuclear R&D Imperative.” Visit ans.org/policy/rndreport/ to learn more and to read the report in its entirety.The following article, originally...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
A subcontractor has been selected to continue making modifications to a Hanford facility to transfer nearly 2,000 highly radioactive capsules to safer interim dry storage.Central Plateau Cleanup Company, the Department of Energy’s prime cleanup contractor for the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announces C$20 million in funding for the ARC-100 small modular reactor. Photo: ARC CanadaThe Canadian province of New Brunswick has awarded C$20 million (about $15.7 million) to ARC Clean Energy Canada (ARC Canada) to support the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 16, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The antinuclear organization Beyond Nuclear is appealing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s dismissal of its petition to intervene in the proceeding for Interim Storage Partners’ (ISP) application to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 16, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The RTG used to power the Mars Perseverance rover is shown here being placed in a thermal vacuum chamber for testing in a simulated near-space environment. Source: INLThe Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is celebrating the scheduled landing of the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 16, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
This is the second in a four-part series spotlighting the candidates for the upcoming 2021 ANS national election. Seven leadership positions are on the ballot.Today we feature statements from the nominees for treasurer.The nominees are Ray Klann, an ANS member since...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 16, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Department of Energy has extended the public review and comment period for the Draft Versatile Test Reactor Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0542) through March 2, 2021.The DOE issued the draft EIS for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) for comment on...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 12, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Students display items they received at a STEM workshop sponsored by Exelon. Photo: Exelon. The landscape of Exelon Generation’s nuclear business has continued to evolve—even before the complications of a pandemic—but people will always remain the core focus. Our...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 12, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Screenshot of the video from Vice. Vice News has published a video on YouTube that follows two farmers from the Fukushima Prefecture, Noboru Saito and Koji Furuyama. Saito, who grows many different crops on his farm, says that the rice grown in the area is...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 12, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
An expert panel will look back at the origins of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in an ANS webinar to be held on Monday, February 15, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (EST). Register now for the webinar, “The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50 Years,” which is...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 12, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Today we feature statements from the nominees for vice president/president-elect. The nominees are Steven A. Arndt, an ANS Fellow and member since 1981, who is a senior technical advisor with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Corey McDaniel, an ANS member since...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 11, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Metropolis Works plant. Photo: HoneywellHoneywell plans to resume production at its Metropolis Works uranium conversion facility in 2023 and will begin preparations for the restart this year, the company has announced. The plant is in Metropolis, Ill.Honeywell,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 11, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service today issued a commemorative Forever stamp recognizing influential nuclear physicist and professor Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997).A great honor: The stamp was dedicated during a virtual...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 11, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Mary Lou Dunzik-GougarFebruary, the month of love! Well, at least the month in which we celebrate Valentine’s Day. I don’t pay much attention to this holiday, though I’ve never turned down a gift of flowers or good chocolate. I love my husband and I try to express...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 11, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Neutron measurement studies at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) are on hold for an investigation of a different sort. On February 9, less than a week after elevated radiation levels were detected as the NCNR research reactor was powered up following a...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 10, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The ANS Young Members Group is hosting a free webinar, on Thursday, February 11, featuring the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) as part of its ongoing “Spotlight on National Labs” series. The broadcast runs from noon to 1:30 p.m. (ET) and will cover RSL’s...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 10, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Work crews remove the first column filled with cesium from the Tank Closure Cesium Removal unit by crane in H tank farm at the Savannah River Site. Photo: DOEColumns filled with cesium have been removed at the Savannah River Site in a demonstration project designed to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 10, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Craig PiercyLow-probability, high-consequence events. In the nuclear community, these scenarios are on our minds every day, but for the rest of society, 2020 has been a painful reminder that powerful forces are at work in the natural world that have the ability to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 10, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has opened registration for its annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC), the largest public meeting the agency hosts. Scheduled for March 8–11, the 33rd RIC will be an all-virtual event.The full conference program and...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 9, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Graphical rendering of Fortis railcar design with spent nuclear fuel cask. Image: DOEThe Association of American Railroads (AAR) recently gave the Department of Energy approval to begin building and testing Fortis, a high-tech railcar designed specifically to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 9, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
A view of the Darlington-1 turbine hall. Unit 1 has set a new world record for continuous operation by a nuclear power reactor. Photo: OPGIn continuous operation since January 26, 2018, Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington-1 was taken off line last Friday for an...
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