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ANS Winter Meeting: Addressing the spent fuel dilemma

December 3, 2021, 11:59AMRadwaste Solutions

The President’s Special Session at the 2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, held Thursday morning, explored the current impasse over the management of spent nuclear fuel in the United States, with leaders from Congress and representatives from the Department of Energy and the U.S. Government Accountability Office sharing the work they are doing in an effort to break that impasse.

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Pacific Fusion: Fusing pulser innovation with General Atomics’ expertise

April 24, 2025, 12:10PMNuclear News

Pacific Fusion has a staff that knows its way around pulsers and inertial fusion, and an ongoing collaboration with General Atomics. Today, the two companies are announcing plans to test...

Hanford to hold virtual meeting on proposed waste processing facility

April 23, 2025, 7:09AMNuclear News

The Department of Energy’s Hanford Field Office and Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) will hold a virtual public meeting on April 30 to learn more about the siting,...

Los Alamos researchers test TRISO transportation

April 22, 2025, 2:43PMNuclear News

Los Alamos National Laboratory recently performed a series of customized criticality experiments to obtain data that will support the transportation of HALEU TRISO fuel, the Department of...

Nuclear advocates fight potential cuts at DOE’s Loan Programs Office

Reports say LPO could lose more than half its staff

April 22, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

Nearly 60 percent of staff at the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear-friendly Loan Programs Office may be lost through President Trump’s deferred resignation program, the Washington...

ANS webinar tackles radiological risks

April 22, 2025, 6:44AMNuclear News

A recent American Nuclear Society webinar laid the basic groundwork in understanding radiation and the risks it presents. Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North...

TVA to file for Clinch River SMR construction permit by June

April 21, 2025, 3:45PMNuclear News

In a Q&A posted on TVA’s website last week about a “new nuclear heyday,” Bob Deacy shared his vision for the Clinch River nuclear site in Oak Ridge, Tenn.—and some news about next...

BWXT acquires Oak Ridge site as NNSA pursues unobligated enriched uranium

April 18, 2025, 1:00PMNuclear News

BWX Technologies Inc. has purchased about 97 acres of land in an Oak Ridge, Tenn., industrial park where the company expects to build a uranium enrichment facility using a technology called...

Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding

April 17, 2025, 3:26PMNuclear News

A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to...

DOE report: Cost to finish cleaning up Hanford site could exceed $589 billion

April 17, 2025, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions

The cost to complete the cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state could cost as much as $589.4 billion, according to the 2025 Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule,...

Ghana takes another step in nuclear partnership with U.S., China

April 17, 2025, 7:12AMNuclear News

Leaders in Ghana announced recently that the country has a “framework agreement” with U.S.-based companies NuScale and Regnum Technology Group.The announcement made by Stephen Yamoah,...

ANS Winter Meeting: Addressing the spent fuel dilemma

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