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The year in review 2020: Research and Applications

January 8, 2021, 11:59AMNuclear News

Here is a look back at the top stories of 2020 from our Research and Applications section in Newswire and Nuclear News magazine. Remember to check back to Newswire soon for more top stories from 2020.

Research and Applications section

ARDP picks divergent technologies in Natrium, Xe-100: Is nuclear’s future taking shape? The Department of Energy has put two reactor designs—TerraPower’s Natrium and X-energy’s Xe-100—on a fast track to commercialization, each with an initial $80 million in 50-50 cost-shared funds awarded through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. Read more.

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NorthStar subsidiary wins $537M contract to demo USS Enterprise

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The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded NorthStar Group Services subsidiary NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services a firm-fixed-price contract worth $536,749,731 for the dismantling,...

Zaporizhzhia ‘extremely fragile’ relying on single off-site power line, IAEA warns

June 3, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has just one remaining power line for essential nuclear safety and security functions, compared with its original 10 functional lines before the military...

Oklo signs MOU to partner with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power

June 2, 2025, 12:19PMNuclear News

Oklo announced last week that it hopes to expand development and global deployment of its advanced nuclear technology through a new partnership with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.The...

Fusion energy surges in Great Lakes region

May 28, 2025, 9:32AMNuclear News

The new Great Lakes Fusion Energy Alliance wants to build a fusion energy engineering consortium in the Great Lakes region to expand the Midwestern momentum behind fusion energy development...

IAEA: Gunfire, drone attack at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

May 22, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

The International Atomic Energy Agency team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) reported hearing gunfire near the site this morning while a drone hit the plant’s training...

Subcommittee focuses on nuclear plans, deployment

May 22, 2025, 12:02PMNuclear News

Energy Secretary Chris Wright testified before the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Water Development Subcommittee yesterday to discuss how the Department of Energy would be impacted by the...

Developers can apply now to test a fueled reactor in NRIC’s DOME

May 21, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

The National Reactor Innovation Center is accepting applications from developers ready to take a fueled microreactor to criticality inside the former Experimental Breeder Reactor-II...

Urenco USA feeds UF6 into new U.S. commercial enrichment cascade

May 20, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

Urenco USA has initiated production of enriched uranium in its newest gas centrifuge enrichment cascade—the first in a planned expansion of its Eunice, N.M., facility announced in July 2023....

IAEA starts its “SMR School” with workshop in Kenya

May 20, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

An initiative to educate government, regulatory, and industry representatives around the world about small modular reactors has been launched by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with...

First concrete marks start of safety-related construction for Hermes test reactor

May 8, 2025, 3:01PMNuclear News

Kairos Power announced this morning that safety-related nuclear construction has begun at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., site where the company is building its Hermes low-power test reactor. Hermes, a...

The year in review 2020: Research and Applications

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