by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 9, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Fuel loading begins at Fuqing-5. Photo: CNNCThe loading of 177 fuel assemblies into the reactor core of Unit 5 at the Fuqing nuclear power plant began on September 4, following the issuance of the unit’s operating license from China’s Ministry of Ecology and...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 9, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) on September 3 announced a research collaboration agreement with Kairos Power. Funded through CNL’s Canadian Nuclear Research Initiative (CNRI), the agreement includes research and engineering for technologies to separate, analyze,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 9, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Craig PiercyOriginally published in the September 2020 issue of Nuclear News.This issue of Nuclear News is dedicated to highlighting advancements in health physics and radiation protection as well as the contributions of the men and women who serve in these fields. It...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 9, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
North Anna nuclear power plant. Photo: Dominion EnergyDominion Energy has filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew the North Anna nuclear power plant’s reactor operating licenses for additional 20-year terms, the Richmond, Va.–based utility...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Full-scale mockup of the upper third of the NuScale Power Module. Photo: NuScaleWith a design that has just emerged from a rigorous safety evaluation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and a customer—Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)—getting ready to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Despite high-profile calls to repeal the scandal-tainted Ohio Clean Air Program Act (H.B. 6) and recent legislation crafted toward that end in both the Ohio House and Senate (66 of 99 House members have reportedly co-sponsored Democratic or Republican bills to repeal...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management issued a final request for proposal (RFP) last week for its Nationwide Low-Level Mixed Low-Level Waste Treatment Services procurement. According to the DOE, the RFP is being issued on a full-and-open,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
A licensing board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an order last week denying calls to reopen proceedings against Holtec International’s application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage site for used nuclear fuel in southeastern New...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 4, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has begun a new webinar series, with the first entry titled “What’s new in low-dose radiation.” The July 22 event kicked off the Gilbert W. Beebe Webinar Series—an extension of the Beebe Symposium,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 4, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Duke Energy Progress and Duke Energy Carolinas have filed their 2020 Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) with state regulators, parent company Duke Energy announced September 1.The plans outline a range of options to achieve varying levels of carbon reduction, including,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 4, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
The Department of Energy announced on September 2 that it has issued $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of its Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by the department’s...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Sep 3, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
As the voice of American nuclear engineers and scientists, ANS congratulates NuScale Power for receiving the first-ever final safety evaluation report for a small modular reactor issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. View Entire Article on...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Jun 5, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Yesterday, we had one of the nicer yet stranger events during this wholly strange time – that is, the meeting of the American Nuclear Society’s Book Publishing Committee, of which yours truly is the Vice Chair. I say “nicer” because I always look...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | May 22, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis I’m writing this on National Maritime Day 2020, a day in which we think of and thank all those who have worked on the water moving people and things. Our nation’s maritime history isn’t as long as that of some other nations but it has been rich and,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | May 12, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis The second of our special series covering documentaries of early US reactors is this very thoroughly set up and filmed documentary on the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, produced by Argonne National Laboratory. EBWR as it was commonly known began...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | May 8, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Our matinee feature this week is a film produced by Argonne National Laboratory, entitled “Chicago Pile 1: The Day Tomorrow Began.” This is the film history, from the official source, of the effort to design, construct and operate what became the first...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Apr 24, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
With talk of the Coronavirus permeating every outlet and venue it might be good to take, at least shortly, a simple side trip for the purpose of distraction. And that side trip today is a look at an official AEC film documenting “The First Nuclear Reactor In Space:...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Apr 22, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
Episode 29 of RadioNuclear is now online! In this episode, we discuss the potential for micro-reactors and their use on military front-lines Do they offer a strategic advantage, or are they a liability? Additionally, does Gen Z understand nuclear? Apparently not,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Apr 10, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis USS THRESHER; official United States Navy photo, from collection of Naval Historical Center via navsource.org As is the case on every 10APR, I find myself – even in the midst of the present national and, really, worldwide crisis – returning to thoughts...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 27, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis At the end of the 1950’s the US Army was looking at its entire operational sphere to determine in what areas nuclear energy could be of benefit. While many of these are fairly well known today – for example, the small nuclear plants that were to have...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 20, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis More and more folks are having to essentially home-school their children or relatives’ children as this whole virus thing plays out – and they are benefiting from a tremendous effort on the part of educators everywhere as transition is made to sent-out...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 28, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Our ANS Nuclear Cafe matinee feature this week is a fascinating in-depth look at the fabrication of major components for, and the construction of, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. In this film you’ll get to see some very interesting, rarely seen...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 21, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis This week I had some considerable interaction on social media in the area of replacing fossil power at existing sites with micro reactors or SMR’s (Small Modular Reactors.) As we see real progress happening now in these exciting reactor fields (NuScale...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 14, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Our ANS Nuclear Cafe Friday Matinee feature this week is a film produced to detail the United States Army’s nuclear power program; it was archived and then put online by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore. Particularly in the decade of the 1950’s...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Feb 6, 2020 | Nuclear Energy
(Reprinted with permission from ANS News, January/February 2020, p. 2) ANS President Marilyn Kray is one of more than 40 men and women who have joined Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy (GCNP), a group that is uniting leaders of nuclear policy organizations who have...
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