Siphoning D&D lessons from the oil and gas industryANS Nuclear CafeWaste ManagementDecember 10, 2020, 9:30AM|Radwaste Solutions StaffThe Deepsea Delta oil-drilling platform in the North Sea. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsNuclear decommissioning projects can benefit from the lessons learned in the fossil fuel industry, according to a December 8 Reuters Events post that draws heavily from an article published in the ANS magazine Radwaste Solutions.Reuters reporter Paul Day interviewed the authors of “Tapping Nonnuclear Knowledge,” which appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of RS and examines research being done on cross-sector learning between nuclear and oil and gas decommissioning projects, particularly the mega projects of decommissioning nuclear power plants and offshore oil rigs.ExpandTags:d&ddecommissioningoil & gasresearchShare:LinkedInTwitterFacebook
DOE to provide $12 million for nuclear data researchNuclear NewsResearch & ApplicationsDecember 8, 2020, 3:03PM|Nuclear News StaffThe U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide up to $12 million for new research on nuclear data in support of crosscutting research. The aim of the program is to expand and improve the quality of data needed for a wide range of nuclear-related activities, from basic research in nuclear science to isotope production and nuclear nonproliferation efforts.“Increasingly, precise data on the properties of atomic nuclei are central to enabling groundbreaking advances in medicine, commerce, and national security,” said Chris Fall, director of the DOE’s Office of Science, on December 7. “This program targets crosscutting opportunities to enhance the curation of existing nuclear data archives, as well as research to lay the groundwork for new applications in areas of national need.”ExpandTags:doefunding opportunity announcementnnsaoffice of scienceresearchShare:LinkedInTwitterFacebook
DOE awards $18 million to support high-intensity laser facilitiesNuclear NewsResearch & ApplicationsOctober 29, 2020, 3:03PM|Nuclear News StaffThe Advanced Beam Laboratory at Colorado State University will receive funding under the DOE’s LaserNetUS program.The Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) aims to accelerate U.S. research in the field of high-energy-density plasma science with the awarding of $18 million to fund operations and user support at high-intensity laser facilities in the United States and Canada, the DOE announced on October 27.The award is part of FES’s LaserNetUS initiative, which was established in 2018 to provide U.S. scientists increased access to high-intensity laser facilities at 10 universities and national laboratories: the University of Texas at Austin, Ohio State University, Colorado State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the University of Rochester, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Canada’s Université du Québec.ExpandTags:doefusion energy scienceslasernetusplasma scienceresearchShare:LinkedInTwitterFacebook
South Korea completes first vacuum vessel section for ITERNuclear NewsResearch & ApplicationsMay 5, 2020, 9:59AM|Nuclear News StaffITER vacuum vessel section no. 6, shown here, was completely assembled in April. South Korea is providing four of the nine 40-degree vacuum vessel sections; Europe is providing the other five. Photo: ITERSouth Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has completed work on the first vacuum vessel section for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the ITER Organization reported on April 28. The 440-ton section is now being prepared for shipping this summer to the ITER construction site, located near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France.ExpandTags:fusionhyundai heavy industriesiteriter organizationresearchsouth koreavacuum vesselShare:LinkedInTwitterFacebook
Researchers investigate effects of heat on water migration at WIPPRadwaste SolutionsWaste ManagementMay 4, 2020, 10:38AM|Radwaste Solutions StaffDeep in the underground of a New Mexico desert, the Department of Energy is studying the effects of high-level, heat-generating radioactive waste on water migration in the salt formations. At the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., a collaboration between Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories is performing a series of borehole-scale process tests, called the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) project.ExpandTags:high-level wastehlwresearchspent nuclear fuelwaste managementwippShare:LinkedInTwitterFacebook