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The Kemeny Commission Report from the pages of Nuclear News

May 26, 2022, 3:15PMNuclear News

This week’s Throwback Thursday post is again about Three Mile Island—this time looking at the coverage from the pages of the December 1979 issue Nuclear News about the Kemeny Commission. The twelve-person commission, announced by President Carter immediately after the accident in April 1979, was headed by John Kemeny—then president of Dartmouth College—with orders to investigate the causes and any consequences of the accident.

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UIUC microreactor fuel qualification methodology gets safety approval

April 24, 2025, 9:34AMNuclear 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

April 22, 2025, 9:28AMNuclear 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

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...

Can we please stop this nonsense about what’s the best source of energy?

April 21, 2025, 9:21AMNuclear News

Nuclear is—period. But don’t take my word for it: ask the United Nations. The 2021 report Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options, by the UN Economic Commission for Europe...

TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process

April 18, 2025, 9:28AMNuclear News

Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s...

Higher enriched nuclear fuel being tested at Vogtle

April 11, 2025, 12:07PMNuclear News

Southern Nuclear recently loaded nuclear fuel with uranium-235 enriched up to 6 percent—higher than the usual 3–5 percent enrichment—into Vogtle-2 to test it through irradiation....

How does subsequent license renewal relate to the restart of nuclear power plants?

April 10, 2025, 7:00AMNuclear NewsGary Adkins

Subsequent license renewal (SLR) authorizes nuclear power plants to operate for an additional 20 years beyond the 60 years of the initial license (years 1–40) and the first license renewal...

Resurrecting Three Mile Island

January 24, 2025, 3:09PMNuclear NewsMatt Wald

When Exelon Generation shut down Three Mile Island Unit 1 in September 2019, managers were so certain that the reactor would never run again that as soon as they could, they had workers drain...

Age is just a number

April 8, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

This month’s Nuclear News pays tribute to the people and projects that keep our nuclear power plants running.In the nuclear industry, “life extension” is a venerable term that broadly...

NRC approves subsequent license renewal for Oconee

April 2, 2025, 7:03AMNuclear News

All three units at the Duke Energy’s Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina are now licensed to operate for an additional 20 years....