by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Oct 15, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
This week is National Nuclear Science Week – an exciting week of learning, teaching and interacting on all things nuclear-related. (You can read about the history of National Nuclear Science Week, or NNSW, by following this link.) Each year, this week sees a social...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Oct 8, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By Duriem Calderin Before diving deep into strategies for how to ace the Nuclear P.E exam, let’s briefly review the three main reasons of why it’s essential for nuclear engineers to pass the professional engineering (P.E.) exam. It’s the law! Yes. Every state mandates...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Oct 3, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By Douglas Hardtmayer On Episode 12 of RadioNuclear, we discuss how fear-mongering stories about nuclear power plants in the path of a hurricane are irrelevant, the Oyster Creek Shutdown, and lastly, how nuclear power should be used geopolitically. Loewen However, the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 27, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By Craig Piercy There’s no denying that nuclear energy in the United States has traveled a rough road over the past several years. Plants have closed, legislation to deal with nuclear waste has stalled, and at times it seems that nuclear energy has been written off by...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 26, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis This week has brought two news items – one positive and one negative – that echo a theme which runs down the history of nuclear energy like a spine. The story goes that the original, longest-tried technology works while other, theoretically superior but...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 21, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Last time, we looked at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) findings on the drivers of nuclear plant construction delay and cost overrun up through 1969. We’ll complete our analysis of the AEC findings on 1969 in this installment and move on to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 13, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By James Conca Hurricane Florence, a potentially devastating Category 2 hurricane is on track to make landfall in the Carolinas sometime within 24 hours after this morning, Thursday, September 13. With winds up to 130 miles per hour, Florence could be the most...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 7, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Photo showing the TVA Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant under construction at the end of the 1960’s. This was TVA’s first nuclear plant, which attained some notoriety for having been ordered in what previously had been considered “coal country.” Another,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 6, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By James Conca Japan announced for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant died after suffering radiation exposure, as reported in the Guardian, BBC and Newsweek, although this is unlikely to be true. What actually happened is the government...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 31, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
Our latest Friday Matinee video is a fascinating time-lapse produced by Georgia Power to show the entire process of installing one of the two steam generators at its Plant Vogtle expansion. These huge, one-and-a-half million pound pieces of equipment are shipped by...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 22, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis A sharp increase in reporting on KEPCO (the national Korean near-monopoly electric power provider) and KHNP (Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, the nuclear wing of KEPCO) the last two weeks or so by the Korean press has revealed a drastic reversal in the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 15, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
Last week, the American Nuclear Society announced its new K-12 STEM education initiative Navigating Nuclear – Energizing Our World. The ANS Center for Nuclear Science and Technology Information joined forces with Discovery Education (DE), whose digital platform...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 10, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By Ann D. Winters August 10, 2018, marks the 100th birthday of one of the great men in nuclear power: Vice Admiral Eugene P. “Dennis” Wilkinson USN. He passed away in July 2013, a month before his 95th birthday. I was privileged to call Dennis Wilkinson friend for...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 8, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis In this final installment of the series on pool reactors we’ll take a look at some remarkable images found in a 1956 brochure which shows some of the steps of the process in constructing the Ford Nuclear Reactor and attendant facilities at the University...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 4, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By Peter Hill In 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) [1] successfully touched down on the Red Planet. Aptly named Curiosity, it brought with it scientific discovery instruments and exploration capabilities that only a nuclear-powered rover could realistically...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Aug 1, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis; second in a series. Control Room, Naval Research Reactor, circa 1958. In the previous installment, we observed that some of the earliest pool reactors incorporated their instrumentation right on the moving bridge which supported the reactor core. As...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 27, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By James Jenden Please click to watch the video. “Energy to Feed the World: Nuclear Power vs Meat” From Part I, we learned that everything takes energy, and that removing steps in the energy conversion process can save energy. We even that there is potential to grow...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 26, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Yesterday, I was reading an old (1970’s) brochure published by ASEA-ATOM on district heating reactors. While looking at that material I remembered that now, today, there is at least one effort afoot today to use a simple pool reactor for district...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 25, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By John Kelly, ANS President Be sure to read the July Nuclear News president’s profile – John Kelly: From Motor City to the Capital City I am honored and energized to serve as the 64th president of the American Nuclear Society. I was born in March 1954 and ANS was...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 23, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By James Conca The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society wrapped up last week in the great city of Cleveland and there was a palpable air of excitement that things might change. HPS represents the group of scientists most responsible for protecting us from...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 20, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
By James Jenden Please click to watch the video. “Energy to Feed the World: Nuclear Power vs Meat” We all know about Calories. Often, for people on a diet, Calories are the enemy. They’re a measure of how much energy is in food (and are a harsh reminder that you...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 13, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis July 21 will bring with it another anniversary of the 1959 launching (shown above) of the only US-built nuclear powered commercial ship, the NS SAVANNAH. We’ve covered the ship fairly well here at ANS Nuclear Cafe over the years, so perhaps it’s time...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jul 6, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
This week’s ANS Nuclear Cafe Friday Matinee is an excellent, professional and very modern video tour of the renowned MIT reactor facility. This entertaining video was produced in an extremely up-to-date style sure to take you in – so don’t start watching it unless...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jun 29, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, courtesy China General Nuclear Power Group Long awaited news came today that at 17:59 hours local time, the Taishan-1 EPR nuclear plant connected to the grid for the first time. This makes Taishan-1 not only the first EPR to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jun 19, 2018 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis, from the American Nuclear Society 2018 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia Long in coming has been the Small Modular Reactor nuclear plant; widely assured as the ‘next big thing’ for nuclear energy, the development of this variety of plant has been much more...
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