August 28, 2017, 6:04AMANS Nuclear Cafe
People are bad at evaluating risks-especially from artificial, exotic, or invisible sources. When it comes to radiation, most people are not only bad at evaluating risks, but can be irrational...
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101st Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers
April 22, 2012, 1:23PMANS Nuclear Cafe
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers enters its second century this week. If you missed it, the 100th Carnival was published last week at Atomic Power Review which is maintained by Will...
40th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers
February 19, 2011, 10:51AMANS Nuclear Cafe
This is the 40th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Blogs. The carnival features blog posts from the leading U.S. nuclear bloggers and is a roundup of featured content from them....
U.S. may help bring nuclear energy to El Salvador
February 5, 2025, 9:39AMNuclear News
Officials from the United States and the Republic of El Salvador signed a memorandum of understanding Monday, agreeing to cooperate on strategic civil nuclear development.In one of his first...
February 3, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE Mission of Gen IV International Forum is extendedA framework agreement to continue the Generation IV...
December 6, 2024, 7:01AMNuclear News
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE Partnership formed for Idaho microreactorsAalo Atomics has partnered with Idaho Falls Power to focus on...
The Fulton Station project: Inflation kept this HTGR from seeing the light of day
October 23, 2024, 9:38AMNuclear News
Fulton Station was to be a two-unit high-temperature gas-cooled reactor that was originally planned to start commercial operation in 1981 for Unit 1 and in 1983 for Unit 2. Each reactor was to...
Proof of concept: The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment in Nuclear News
May 9, 2024, 3:00PMNuclear News
By late 1960, when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission authorized plans to build a Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the lab already had about 13 years of...
Cloud chamber kits show radiation in action for K-12 students
January 25, 2024, 7:00AMNuclear News
American Nuclear Society conferences always showcase the latest in nuclear, but one of the biggest attractions at this past November’s Winter Conference and Expo in Washington, D.C., was...
Energy bill moves to House floor with amendment on Diablo Canyon, HALEU
June 30, 2022, 9:30AMNuclear News
The House Appropriations Committee has delivered to the full House the fiscal year 2023 Energy and Water Development bill in a 32–24 vote, along with a notable amendment concerning, among...
China moves closer to completion of world’s first thorium reactor
July 22, 2021, 6:58AMANS Nuclear Cafe
China is moving ahead with the development of an experimental reactor that would be the first of its kind in the world and “could prove key to the pursuit of clean and safe nuclear power,”...
Nuclear engineering programs: Building the new nuclear workforce
December 28, 2020, 7:01AMNuclear News
In order to deliver the next generation of nuclear power plants, the nuclear community needs to overcome a number of challenges identified in 2017 as part of the ANS Nuclear Grand Challenges...
U-233 processing restarts at Oak Ridge following upgrades
October 22, 2020, 7:01AMNuclear News
The processing and downblending of uranium-233 for disposal has resumed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, following a pause in operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Energy...
March 1, 2018, 12:00PMANS Nuclear Cafe
One of the important design goals for the Fort St. Vrain reactor - really, the second-generation high temperature gas cooled reactor - was to create a core design that would be more compact...
Prisoner’s Dilemma and New Types of Nuclear Reactors
July 24, 2013, 6:00AMANS Nuclear Cafe
Prisoner's Dilemma is a famous example of game theory. You can look at this example in quite a few ways. I especially think of this game when I am thinking about Liquid Fluoride Thorium...
Irène Joliot-Curie and the Alchemists’ Dream
September 30, 2011, 6:00AMANS Nuclear Cafe
September 12, 2011 marks the 114th year since the birth of Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of the powerhouse early nuclear researchers Marie Curie and Pierre Curie....
26th Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers
November 5, 2010, 2:17AMANS Nuclear Cafe
Special edition for ANS Winter Meeting...
18th Carnival of nuclear energy bloggers
September 10, 2010, 11:09AMANS Nuclear Cafe
A roundup of interesting news from a growing group...
NRC grants Disa license for novel environmental remediation tech
October 7, 2025, 9:33AMRadwaste Solutions
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a license application submitted by Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology for remediating abandoned uranium...
March 13, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE BWRX-300 SMR deployment partnership developedSeveral U.S. utility companies and supply chain partners...