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Local high schoolers shadow SRS engineers

February 20, 2024, 9:27AMRadwaste Solutions

Aiken County Public School District students test out a mock glovebox during a tour of the Savannah River Site’s Waste Solidification Building. (Photo: SRNS)

Fifteen area high school students recently completed job shadow experiences with leaders, engineers, and education outreach personnel at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS).

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Atomic museum benefits from L&A donation

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Deep Fission to break ground this week

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This week, BWX Technologies, alongside Idaho National Laboratory and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office, announced the arrival of a full core of TRISO fuel at INL’s...

ANS hosts webinar on uranium mill tailing facilities

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The DOE reorganization’s impact on nuclear

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In a recent press release, the Department of Energy announced an organizational realignment aimed at “expanding American energy production, accelerating scientific and technological...

My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962

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My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey...

Construction begins on X-energy’s Oak Ridge advanced fuel facility

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Small modular reactor developer X-energy and its subsidiary TRISO-X announced yesterday the start of aboveground construction for its TX-1 advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Oak...

The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program

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It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced in May by Executive...

Local high schoolers shadow SRS engineers

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