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Really taking off during the pandemic, ANS’s online event programming remains very strong and continues to be a great resource for the nuclear community. This year alone, ANS has produced 14 different webinars—some of which are only available to members, with most available to the general public.
GAO report analyzes nuclear fuel efforts in national security and commercial sectors
The Government Accountability Office has released a report to Congress titled “Nuclear Fuel: Actions Needed to Enhance Cost Reporting and Economic Analysis for Federal Uranium Supply...
Global 2026 draws attention to nuclear fuel developments
Last week in Chicago, the American Nuclear Society’s Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division hosted Global 2026, where it was abundantly clear that there are many exciting fuel-related...
Zeno RHU will aim to survive lunar night
As established by a commercial payload agreement, a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) developed by Zeno Power will be onboard one of Firefly Aerospace’s existing Blue Ghost missions to the...
FANCO informs NRC of its intent to build HALEU fuel fabrication facility
First American Nuclear Co., developer of the 240-MWe EAGL-1 reactor, has announced its intention to make its own advanced reactor fuel. The Indianapolis-based company has filed a regulatory...
Centrus, X-energy sign enrichment contract as TRISO-X expands TX-1 campus
Centrus Energy Corp. will be providing X-energy with enrichment services for low-enriched uranium and high-assay, low-enriched uranium to support X-energy’s planned deployments of Xe-100...
NASA and Radiant selected to receive HALEU
Last week, the Department of Energy announced a conditional commitment to provide high-assay low-enriched uranium to NASA for its Space Reactor-1 Freedom rocket and to Radiant Industries for...
New grant to fund continued construction of TRISO-X fuel facilities
X-energy subsidiary TRISO-X has received an economic development grant valued at $11 million from Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund, which was established in 2023 to...
MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in...
DOE contract boosts Centrus’s HALEU goals as Urenco continues LEU expansion
In the latest twist in a long-term, multistep contracting arrangement with the Department of Energy, Centrus Energy has signed a contract to finalize terms of a $900 million DOE task order to...
Defense used fuel recycling project advances to partner selection phase
The quest of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to find a private-sector partner to design, build, and operate a commercial-scale facility to recycle...
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