Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:08 +0000
The need for emissions-free power generation, along with the ability to provide more power when and where it’s needed, is driving research and development of smaller nuclear reactors. Energy industry
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:59:12 +0000
While the past year has marked stunning triumphs for nuclear energy, experts caution that high costs, regulatory bottlenecks, and the need for market alignment remain major hurdles on the path to a true
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:40:57 +0000
Microreactors are a class of very small modular reactors targeted for non-conventional nuclear markets. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports a variety of advanced reactor designs, including gas, liquid-metal, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:31:46 +0000
Pennsylvania has been a hotspot for nuclear power since the advent of commercial nuclear power, which it pioneered with first power from the 60-MW Shippingport Atomic Power Station near Pittsburgh […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:12:31 +0000
BWXT Technologies has won a contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to evaluate options for deploying a centrifuge pilot plant that could establish a new domestic uranium enrichment […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:24:27 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has directed its staff to publish a proposed rule and draft guidance to create Part 53, a much-awaited risk-informed and technology-inclusive licensing framework geared toward […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:30:33 +0000
To propel interest and bolster development of advanced nuclear reactor designs, the Department of Energy (DOE) will demonstrate—by October 2020—the production of high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel in a first-of-its-kind $115 million project at the agency’s uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. HALEU is nuclear fuel that is enriched to a higher degree […]
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