ANS and the Young Members Group are offering the next installment of the “Spotlight on the National Labs” webinar series, featuring Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The webinar takes place on August 12, starting at 1:30 p.m. (EDT).
Annual Meeting Opening Plenary Session: Breaking through to deployment
The theme of the 2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting—Breaking Through to Deployment—is a theme of action. It can take substantial momentum, shrewdly applied, to break through barriers....
ANS Virtual Annual Meeting opens today
The 2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting opens today and runs through June 16.Register now for the Annual Meeting....
DOE finishes demolition of Biology Complex at Y-12 site
Crews with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) have completed the demolition of Building 9207, the largest and final building at the former Biology Complex at...
DOE backs U.S. stellarator research at Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X
U.S. scientists are getting funding to carry out seven research projects at two major stellarator fusion energy facilities located in Germany and Japan, the Department of Energy announced on...
Argonne-led team models fluid dynamics of entire SMR core
Coolant flow around the fuel pins in a light water reactor core plays a critical role in determining the reactor’s performance. For yet-to-be-built small modular reactors, a thorough...
Oak Ridge brings fusion and fission together for clean energy synergy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a long record of advancing fusion and fission science and technology. Today, the lab is focused more than ever on taking advantage of that spectrum of nuclear...
Tiny MARVEL reactor gets final environmental assessment
The definition of a microreactor is ambiguous. But whether your upper cutoff is 10 MW or 20 MW, the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) reactor that the...
TerraPower’s Natrium demo is headed to Wyoming
TerraPower has a design for a sodium-cooled fast reactor and federal cost-shared demonstration funding from the Department of Energy. Its partner, PacifiCorp, has four operating coal-fired...
U.S. and France commit to “common ambition” on advanced nuclear
U.S. energy secretary Jennifer Granholm and French minister for the ecological transition Barbara Pompili issued a joint statement on May 28 in which they pledged to work together to meet...
Clinical trial funding to expand the radioisotope medicine chest
The Department of Energy is providing up to $2 million in fiscal year 2022 to fund university and national laboratory studies into the use of novel, medically relevant isotopes for use in...