Our latest ANS Nuclear Cafe Matinee film is the latest video update by Southern Company on the progress of the Vogtle nuclear plant expansion. This video runs just over seven minutes and brings you the details of the construction as of the last quarter of 2018. Enjoy!
Annual Meeting Opening Plenary Session: Breaking through to deployment
The theme of the 2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting—Breaking Through to Deployment—is a theme of action. It can take substantial momentum, shrewdly applied, to break through barriers....
ANS Virtual Annual Meeting opens today
The 2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting opens today and runs through June 16.Register now for the Annual Meeting....
Experts predict further delay to commercial start of Vogtle-3
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Tiny MARVEL reactor gets final environmental assessment
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TerraPower’s Natrium demo is headed to Wyoming
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U.S. and France commit to “common ambition” on advanced nuclear
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Clinical trial funding to expand the radioisotope medicine chest
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“Now is the time” for more ATR capacity: A conversation with Lightbridge
Operators at the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory have begun a nine-month outage to perform a core internals changeout. When the ATR is restarted in early 2022, the top head...
