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The Advantage of Upgrading Power Supply Infrastructure in Nuclear Power Plants
The International Atomic Energy Agency has emphasized that elevated concentrations of cesium-134, cesium-137, and ruthenium-103 recently detected over Northern Europe pose no risk to human health or the environment, even as the agency continues to investigate their origin.
October 11, 1954: The founding of ANS
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the American Nuclear Society.Plenty of sources incorrectly list our birthday, but the reality is that October 11, 1954, is the correct...
IAEA warning issued after assassination of Zaporizhzhia worker
A man killed in a car bomb last week in Enerhodar, Ukraine, may have been targeted because of his ties to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.The International Atomic Energy Agency received...
TerraPower reaches market-scale production of Ac-225
TerraPower Isotopes, a subsidiary of Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower, announced it is now producing actinium-225 at commercial scale, making the medical isotope available to the...
Uranium prices see increase as October begins
Uranium prices reached $81.9 per pound on October 1, the highest level in more than a month, according to online information source Trading Economics. The company reported that the last time...
Australia’s OPAL is back at work after upgrades
The only nuclear reactor in Australia has returned to power after a monthslong shutdown for planned essential maintenance and upgrades. The OPAL (for open-pool Australian light water reactor)...
Chernobyl-area land deemed safe for new agriculture
More than 80 percent of the territory that has been surveyed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “can be returned to agricultural production,” said Valery Kashparov, director of the...
IAEA elects new members to its Board of Governors
Eleven countries have been newly elected to serve on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-member Board of Governors for the 2024–2025 term. The election took place on September...
Charges brought over sale of nuclear technology to Russia
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts announced criminal charges this week against two men for allegedly smuggling and conspiring to violate export controls relating to the sale of...
HALEU without hyperbole: ANS speaks up for science and transparent risk assessment
The American Nuclear Society recently issued an open letter in support of a science-based approach to the regulation of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuels for commercial nuclear...
IAEA expanding aid to protect Ukraine nuclear infrastructure
The military conflict with Russia that began in February 2022 has left Ukraine with “dangerous instability” of its national grid, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s...
