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Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News July through September

Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 8:24PMNuclear News

This is the fourth 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 July-September time frame—please enjoy this recap from a busy year in the nuclear community.

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

Thu, May 8, 2025, 8:01PMNuclear 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...

NAC transport package receives NRC certification

Thu, May 8, 2025, 12:00PMRadwaste Solutions

NAC International has announced that it has received certification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its new high-capacity Volunteer packaging system for transporting nonfissile or...

Fusion Energy Week begins today

Mon, May 5, 2025, 8:01PMNuclear News

Excitement around fusion has only grown this year since the French magnetic confinement fusion tokamak known as WEST maintained a plasma for 1,337 seconds in February, toppling the...

IAEA Director General meets with key nuclear leaders in D.C.

Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:43PMNuclear News

International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi recently traveled to Washington, D.C., for the first time since Trump took office in January. In his three-day visit...

Industry Update—May 2025

Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 12:10PMNuclear News

Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE TerraPower’s Natrium reactor advances on several frontsTerraPower has continued making aggressive...

Pacific Fusion: Fusing pulser innovation with General Atomics’ expertise

Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 5:10PMNuclear 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...

UIUC microreactor fuel qualification methodology gets safety approval

Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 2:34PMNuclear News

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nuclear Plasma and Radiation Engineering (NPRE) Department announced yesterday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a fuel...

Bill would require NRC reporting of nuclear medicine extravasations

Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 2:28PMNuclear News

Bipartisan legislation introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month seeks to close a loophole that currently allows medical patients to be unintentionally exposed to...

TVA to file for Clinch River SMR construction permit by June

Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 8:45PMNuclear 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...

Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030

Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 2:39PMNuclear News

Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all...

Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News July through September

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