by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 18, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel arrives at the Akkuyu site. Photo: Akkuyu Nuclear JSCRussian company Atommash has delivered the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 of the Akkuyu plant, the nuclear power facility under construction in Turkey, Akkuyu Nuclear JSC...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The General Chair’s Special Session of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting was held on November 17. Moderated by Paul Kearns, director of Argonne National Laboratory, and Bryan Hanson, executive vice president and chief generation officer of Exelon Nuclear, the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting opened on November 16 with a plenary session moderated by ANS President Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar and more than 700 people in attendance. The opening plenary session was followed by nearly 40 panel and technical sessions. Recordings of...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Many regions with peak potential hydrogen demand, as shown in this image created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and reproduced in the Hydrogen Program Plan, are also home to operating nuclear power plants. Image: NREL, The Technical and Economic Potential...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
In the November 10 Federal Register, the Department of Energy published a record of decision to begin groundwater remediation at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site in Ventura County, Calif. The cleanup of groundwater will take place at seven locations within Area...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Presented as an embedded topical meeting at the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting, the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 meeting opened on November 16 with the first of four plenary sessions to be held during the week: “Looking Back and Looking Forward in Fusion.”...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 17, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Pilgrim nuclear power plant was shut down in May 2019. Photo: Entergy EnergyThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied a request by the antinuclear group Pilgrim Watch for a hearing in the transfer of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant’s license from Entergy to a...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The “Hybrid and Integrated Energy Systems” session on Monday during the ANS 2020 Virtual Winter Meeting was sponsored by the Operations and Power Division and chaired by Piyush Sabharwall of Idaho National Laboratory. View Entire Article on...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting kicked off on Monday, November 16, with an opening plenary moderated by ANS President Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar. The session, delivered via Zoom, featured two keynote speakers—Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress and...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Monday session “Advancement in Medical Isotopes Production and Applications” of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting was sponsored by the Isotopes & Radiation Division and co-chaired by Lin-Wen Hu of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Bowen of...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
American Nuclear Society Fellows hold the highest grade of membership in the Society. The following new Fellows were recognized Monday during the opening plenary session of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting. View Entire Article on...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The American Nuclear Society honored seven award recipients on Monday during the Opening Plenary of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting. View Entire Article on...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The American Nuclear Society supports more than 50 college students each year with annual scholarships of more than $140,000 awarded through its Scholarship Program. The program offers both achievement-based and financial need-based scholarships to ANS student members...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Photo: PG&EThe American Nuclear Society has submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in support of a complaint recently filed by a nuclear advocacy group regarding the 2016 decision to prematurely retire the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 16, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
With the theme “Nuclear is Good for You,” the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting kicks off on November 16 with the opening plenary session. The plenary features two keynote speakers—Alex Epstein, of the Center for Industrial Progress, and Jessica Lovering, of the Good...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 13, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Joe DixonHubert HafenWälischmiller Engineering (HWM), of Markdorf, Germany, has joined forces with NuVision Engineering (NVE) to form NuVision-Wälischmiller under parent company Carr’s Engineering. The NVE-HWM team develops, demonstrates, and deploys engineered remote...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 13, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Fabricated yttrium hydride samples are pulled out of the system. Photo: ORNLOak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a method to produce solid yttrium hydride for use as a moderator for the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR), a 3-MWt additively...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 13, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Leningrad nuclear power plant’s Unit I-2, a 925-MWe RBMK-1000 light-water–cooled graphite-moderated reactor, was permanently shut down on November 10, according to Rosatom, Russia’s state atomic energy corporation. The shutdown occurred at 12:30 a.m. Moscow...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 13, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
An MIT-led team found that the formulas describing how atoms behave in a gas can be generalized to predict how protons and neutrons interact at close range. Image: Collage by MIT News. Neutron star image: X-ray (NASA/CXC/ESO/F.Vogt et al); Optical (ESO/VLT/MUSE &...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 12, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
MajumdarArun Majumdar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and former vice president for energy at Google, is a leading contender for secretary of energy in a Biden administration, according to a November 12 Bloomberg story.Chosen on November...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 12, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
On November 8, less than a week after becoming Belarus’s first nuclear reactor to be connected to the power grid, and only one day after a visit to the Belarusian site from the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, to celebrate the accomplishment, Belarusian-1...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 12, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
BWX Technologies Inc. announced on November 10 that its BWXT Nuclear Operations Group Inc. (BWXT NOG) subsidiary has completed its TRISO nuclear fuel line restart project and is actively producing fuel at its Lynchburg, Va., facility.With the restart, BWXT now...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 12, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
A truckload of LLW is moved away from the Lake Ontario shoreline to a long-term storage facility. Photo courtesy of CNL.Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) announced on November 9 that it has completed the excavation and transfer of about 450,000 cubic meters of...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 11, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Artist’s concept of the Wylfa Newydd project. Image: Horizon Nuclear PowerThe London-based newspaper Financial Times is reporting that a consortium of U.S. firms is holding discussions with the U.K. government to revive Wylfa Newydd, the nuclear new-build...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Nov 11, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Cortez MastoRosenU.S. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D., Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) sent a letter to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and ranking member Sen. Dianne...
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