by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 25, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Three Mile Island nuclear generating station in 2010.A community advisory board has been formed for the decommissioning of Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, according to a March 23 report by StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration of National...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 25, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
After funding one year of microreactor engineering design work by three teams, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on March 22 that it has exercised contract options for two of those teams—led by BWXT Advanced Technologies and X-energy—to proceed with...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 25, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Artist’s rendering of the Stable Salt Reactor–Wasteburner (SSR–W) and WAste to Stable Salt (WATSS) facility. Image: MoltexThe Canadian government has awarded C$50.5 million (about $40.2 million) to Moltex Energy Canada to support small modular reactor research and...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 24, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR) will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 25, to examine the latest developments in the nuclear energy sector, with a focus on ways to maintain and expand the use of nuclear energy in the United States and...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 24, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Savannah River’s DWPF has been pouring high-level waste canisters for a quarter of a century. Photo: DOEThe month of March marked the 25th year of radiological operations for the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 24, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Scientists at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, have pulled together a group of Navy, Army, and National Institute of Standards and Technology labs to help try and settle the debate over low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), reports IEEE...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 24, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Unit II-2 at Russia’s Leningrad plant has entered commercial operation. Photo: RosenergoatomUnit II-2 at the Leningrad nuclear power plant entered commercial operation on March 22, bringing the total number of operating power reactors in the Russian fleet to 38,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 23, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Economist published a video earlier this month trying to answer the question of why is nuclear so unpopular. The video is paired with a story that appeared on The Economist’s website advocating for a well-regulated nuclear industry. The video starts off with...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 23, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced last week that the 2021 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, hosted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), will take place May 24–27 in a fully virtual format.The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Summit will...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 23, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The first wall section of Saltstone Disposal Unit 8 is being constructed at the Savannah River Site. Source: DOEThe first wall section of Saltstone Disposal Unit 8 (SDU 8) at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina was installed earlier...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 23, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The New York Times has reported on a set of massive spending proposals under President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda that is adding up to $3 trillion aimed at boosting the economy and combating climate change. The proposals are expected to be presented to...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 22, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Vogtle-3’s containment and turbine building. Photo: Georgia PowerVogtle-3, the first of two 1,100-MWe AP1000 pressurized water reactors under construction at the Vogtle plant near Waynesboro, Ga., may not go into service in November as planned, Southern Company...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 22, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
To fulfill the strategic goal of enhancing nuclear public policy, the American Nuclear Society invites its members to apply for the Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship. Applications and supporting documents for the 2022 fellowship are due...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 22, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
GranholmU.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gave her first international address as part of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2021 conference, held on March 16 and 17. Granholm started her speech by stating that “America is back,” putting climate change...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 22, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revised its policy regarding how it conducts staff-sponsored public meetings with outside parties.The revised policy was effective with its publication in the March 19 Federal Register. The NRC’s public meeting schedule will...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 19, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station site. Image: Courtesy of TEPCO. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) became a household name a decade ago as the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, center of the largest nuclear accident in a...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 19, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Photo: PG&EAccording to ETO Insider, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week dismissed a complaint filed in October 2020 from Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) against multiple agencies regarding the closing...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 19, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Meeting remotely, WSU students deliver two nonproliferation projects to NNSA and PNNL staff. Source: NNSAIn a program sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, teams of engineering students from Washington...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 19, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Join the American Nuclear Society on Friday, March 26, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (EDT) to hear perspectives on the future of nuclear energy offered by individuals who have played a significant role in framing the United States’ nuclear energy policies of the past,...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Holtec’s 1,500th canister is positioned for placement into the HI-STORM UMAX system at Ameren Missouri’s Callaway Energy Center. Photo: HoltecHoltec International said that it successfully loaded its 1,500th spent fuel canister last week as part of the ongoing dry...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
The Department of Energy on March 16 announced $18 million in new particle accelerator technology funding that includes $5 million for university-based traineeships for accelerator scientists and engineers.Accelerating solutions: Beams of charged particles are...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
In response to House Democrats’ introduction on March 2 of a massive energy bill, the CLEAN Future Act, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have unveiled their own, more modest energy agenda—a package of existing legislation that they say would...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 18, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
ShellenbergerIn testimony last Thursday before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Michael Shellenberger, founder and president of Environmental Progress, called for maintaining the current U.S. fleet of nuclear power reactors. He argued that the...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
Amanda Lines, a PNNL chemist, develops real-time monitoring tools to pave the way for faster advanced reactor testing and design. (Photo: Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)Advanced reactor development and testing could benefit from a Pacific Northwest...
by ANS Nuclear Cafe | Mar 17, 2021 | Nuclear Energy
COVID-19 has touched our lives in many ways, affecting work, school, and homelife. The Diversity and Inclusion in ANS Committee is holding a free webinar, “Coping with COVID: The Pandemic and the Nuclear Community,” on Tuesday, March 23, from 1:00 p.m. to...
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