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Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News January through March

January 7, 2022, 10:35AMNuclear News

This is the second of five articles to be posted today to look back at the top news stories of 2021 for the nuclear community. The full article, "Looking back at 2021,"was published in the January 2022 issue of Nuclear News.

Quite a year was 2021. In the following stories, we have compiled what we feel are the past year’s top news stories from the January-March time frame—please enjoy this recap from a busy year in the nuclear community.

Click here to see the first article in the series.

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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission

October 8, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to...

Sellafield awards $3.86B in infrastructure contracts to three companies

October 14, 2025, 2:54PMNuclear News

Sellafield Ltd., the site license company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England, announced the award of £2.9 billion (about $3.86 billion)...

A focus on clean energy transition

October 14, 2025, 9:30AMANS Nuclear Cafe

Michigan-based consulting firm Ducker Carlisle has released a report that outlines projected developments and opportunities as well as potential problems in the global shift to cleaner power....

UMass Lowell and MIT back fission and fusion future for Massachusetts

October 10, 2025, 12:09PMNuclear News

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants to accelerate the state’s leadership in both fission and fusion, and earlier this month asked the University of Massachusetts–Lowell to develop road...

Holtec pulls out of New Mexico SNF interim storage project

October 10, 2025, 7:01AMRadwaste Solutions

Holtec International has confirmed it is canceling plans to build a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico. Named the HI-STORE CISF, the...

Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement

October 9, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold...

DOE, NNSA open process to select energy suppliers for AI data centers

October 8, 2025, 12:03PMNuclear News

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration issued requests for proposals last month, seeking plans...

Cavendish/Amentum JV win Monju D&D contract

October 8, 2025, 7:01AMRadwaste Solutions

U.K.-based Cavendish Nuclear, a subsidiary of Babcock International, will work with Amentum on the next phase of work supporting the decommissioning of Japan’s Monju prototype fast reactor...

Senate EPW Committee to hold Nieh nomination hearing

October 7, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a nomination hearing Wednesday for Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory...

NRC grants Disa license for novel environmental remediation tech

October 7, 2025, 9:33AMRadwaste Solutions

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a license application submitted by Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology for remediating abandoned uranium...

Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News January through March

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