Nuclear Video Matinee: Uranium Mining and Milling
It's hot out! Across much of the United States, the largest heat wave of the summer has been stagnating all week.
It's hot out! Across much of the United States, the largest heat wave of the summer has been stagnating all week.
The mystery of the hidden uranium: Elementary, my dear Watson?
The discovery of a small amount of uranium inside a package of scrap metal bars at Heathrow Airport in London has raised a number of puzzling questions that are being investigated by Scotland...
Looking back at 2022—October through December
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2023, let’s look back at what happened in 2022 for the American Nuclear Society and the nuclear community. In today's post that...
DOE-NE opens HALEU Consortium with focus on information exchange
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy announced December 7 that its new HALEU Consortium is open for membership. And not just from U.S. enrichers, fuel fabricators, and others...
Virginia Uranium’s new owner hopes to wait out mining moratorium
Consolidated Uranium plans to acquire Virginia Energy Resources, which owns Virginia Uranium and the Coles Hill Uranium Project, an undeveloped uranium deposit that sits under about 3,000...
Two reports agree: Diverse advanced reactor fuel cycles can succeed
Advanced reactors and small modular reactors with strikingly different coolants and sizes offer an array of different benefits, but when it comes to fuel cycle issues, including spent fuel and...
Lawmaker releases U.S. nuclear energy “blueprint”
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has issued a three-page “Blueprint for Nuclear Innovation and Competitiveness,” highlighting nuclear...
Report links U-235 found in Ohio home to Portsmouth
In May 2019, Zahn’s Corner Middle School in Pike County, Ohio, located within four miles of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), was closed after local officials reported...
HALEU and the promise of nuclear energy: An interview with the DOE’s Kathryn Huff
Deploying a fleet of advanced reactors in the 2030s means deploying high-assay low- enriched uranium (HALEU) infrastructure now.The future fleet will need more than 40 metric tons of HALEU by...
“There’s going to be a cliff”: Preparing an international SMR supply chain
The nuclear industry leaders assembled in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss small modular reactor supply chains agreed that lost generation capacity from the expected retirement of...
DOE plans offtake contracts to stock a HALEU bank “as soon as possible”
Another piece of the plan for meeting the urgent need for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to fuel advanced reactor deployments fell into place when the Department of Energy held an...