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Delivering Massive Efficiency (and Bottom-Line) Gains Through Chemical Descaling
The sixth annual World Nuclear Energy Day is being celebrated today following its inception in 2020. In recognition, here is a throwback to an Atomic Energy Commission cartoon from the early days of nuclear power:
My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
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...
The Hallam nuclear power plant, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln, Neb., was an important part of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Reactor Power Demonstration Program. But in the end, it...
Trinity Test at 80: American Nuclear Society CEO Craig Piercy reflects on the Manhattan Project
Honoring the achievements and legacy of the WWII generation of nuclear pioneers — and remembering all those affected by Trinity.
By Craig H. Piercy, CEO and Executive Director of the American Nuclear SocietyEighty years ago today, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m. local time* on July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the...
Former NRC commissioners lend support to efforts to eliminate mandatory hearings
A group of nine former commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent a letter Wednesday to the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the...
In commemoration of National Maritime Day, there will be an open house on the NS Savannah this Sunday, May 18, in Baltimore, Md. The world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, Savannah was...
Tenn. legislature funds monument for Oak Ridge civil rights pioneers
The Tennessee legislature has approved a $3.2 million proposal to fund a monument that will honor a group of 85 black former students known as the Scarboro–Oak Ridge 85 who, with support...
Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station: Not the reactor you may be thinking of
The Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station that is the subject of this article is not the CANDU reactor that operated in Ontario from 1966 to 1984. This one was a proposed nuclear power...
Jay F. Kunze—ANS member since 1960
We welcome ANS members with long careers in the community to submit their own stories so that the personal history of nuclear power can be captured. For information on submitting your stories,...
World Nuclear Energy Day grows in recognition
Since its inception in 2020, World Nuclear Energy Day has grown in awareness each year. The day is celebrated annually on December 2.This year on December 2, the U.S. Senate passed a...
Throwback Thursday: The legend of SCRAM
Ax man. Scram. Trip. Yes, this is Throwback Thursday, but no—we aren’t revisiting the slang of American countercultures from decades past. We are, however, pondering a term central to a...
