A pair of NRC workshops coming up

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research is hosting two workshops on reactor topics before the end of the year.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research is hosting two workshops on reactor topics before the end of the year.
When deployments hit setbacks: Cautionary tales in Idaho and Alaska
Plans announced with fanfare sometimes falter in the face of competition or economics. Take NuScale Power’s plans for the Carbon Free Power Project in Idaho: The project was canceled in...
How do national labs help move nuclear technologies to deployment?
Within the next decade, it is expected that the first round of advanced reactor (AR) demonstration units will be successfully started up and operated, with additional industry-led nuclear...
INL makes—and prepares to test—commercial-grade HALEU fuel
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TerraPower partners with UEC for uranium supply
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Framatome and USNC team up to produce TRISO fuel at Framatome facility
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Still in need of HALEU, DOE issues RFP for post-enrichment services
The Department of Energy plans to award one or more contracts to deconvert high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) from its post-enrichment gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF6) state to other...
The design and legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II
If you head west out of Idaho Falls on U.S. Highway 20 and make your way across the Snake River Plain, it won’t be long before you’ll notice a silver dome in the distance to the north. One...
Laying the foundation for advanced reactors
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The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is responsible for roughly 90 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste at Idaho National Laboratory, the Hanford Site in...
Kairos Power begins loading 14 tons of FLiBe into molten salt test loop
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