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Irène Joliot-Curie and the Alchemists’ Dream
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
Special edition for ANS Winter Meeting...
18th Carnival of nuclear energy bloggers
A roundup of interesting news from a growing group...
Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million...
NRC grants Disa license for novel environmental remediation tech
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...
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...
From the pages of Nuclear News: Industry update September 2024
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE BWXT advanced nuclear reactor agreement signed Burns & McDonnell, a family of construction and...
Japanese gangster charged with trafficking nuclear materials
U.S. officials have brought charges of nuclear materials trafficking against a Japanese gangster who has been in federal custody since 2022.In a case filled with international espionage, along...
Radioisotopes target cancer, improve imaging, and have myriad other medical uses
On August 2, 1946, 1 millicurie of the isotope carbon-14 left Oak Ridge National Laboratory, bound for the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.That tiny amount of the...
Serva Energy teams with research reactor to produce cancer-fighting Ac-225
Serva Energy has developed a research reactor–based method of actinium-225 production, the company announced on June 22, saying it “marks the first time a commercial entity has employed a...
Sen. Hawley introduces bill requiring cleanup of St. Louis area school
New legislation that would require the cleanup of Jana Elementary School in suburban St. Louis was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.). The Justice for Jana Elementary Act...
U.S. to help rid Norway of HEU
The U.S. Department of Energy and Norway’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance a project aimed at eliminating Norway’s...
An inventive solution speeds up production of actinium-225
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher has built a device that can speed up the separation of the medical radioisotope actinium-225 from irradiated thorium targets and withstand the...
2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting: Medical isotopes production and applications
The Monday session “Advancement in Medical Isotopes Production and Applications” of the 2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting was sponsored by the Isotopes & Radiation Division and...
Norway working to eliminate HEU
Experts from the United States and Norway are cooperating to make Norway free of high-enriched uranium, according to a September 21 statement from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National...
Alternate History: What could have been
In an entertaining “alternate history” article from The Economist posted online on July 4, a turning point in human history may have occurred on March 6, 1974. That was the day that French...
Fourth Generation Reactor Technology Development in China
by Rosalind Reischer...
Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 268
The 268th Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival is being held this week here at the ANS Nuclear Cafe. Each week, the world's top English-language pro-nuclear bloggers and authors contribute their top...
In the 1960s, visions for nuclear power were hopeful and plentiful; nuclear plants of all sorts imaginable* were under consideration and under construction in areas both urban and remote,...