A prototype nuclear waste canister in the drillhole receptacle. (Photo: Deep Isolation)
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear announced it has signed a technology licensing agreement with government contractor Navarro Research and Engineering, giving Navarro access to Deep Isolation’s portfolio of intellectual property for use in nuclear and hazardous waste management applications across the states of Tennessee and Idaho.
Centrus employees maneuver a cylinder at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. (Photo: Centrus Energy)
Centrus Energy announced a plan yesterday to add 300 new jobs at Centrus’s uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio “in advance of federal funding decisions.” The company envisions adding capacity for both low-enriched uranium and high-assay low-enriched uranium production at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, but the “size and scope” of public and private investment is “subject to being selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.”
Representatives meet at the OECD NEA’s Roadmaps to New Nuclear 2025 conference. (Photo: OECD NEA)
More than 300 delegates from around the world attended the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s recent Roadmaps to New Nuclear 2025 conference in Paris, France. In attendance were representatives from governments, industry, public and private financial sectors, academia, legal firms, think tanks, and research institutions. Cohosted by the Korean government, the event focused on practical, near-term solutions to barriers facing nuclear new builds.
The golden ground-breaking shovels for Valar’s USREL site are posed dramatically in front of an American flag hung on a Kiewit excavator. (Source: Valar Atomics)
El Segundo, Calif.–based reactor start-up Valar Atomics recently announced that it has broken ground on its test reactor, the Ward 250, at Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL), becoming the second company participating in the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to do so.
The Hartsville cooling tower. (Photo: Brian Stansberry)
The Tennessee Valley Authority has posted a video of the implosion of a 1970s-era, 540-foot-tall hyperbolic cooling tower at its Hartsville site in Tennessee, which once was to have hosted a nuclear power plant. The tower crashed to the ground at the hands of a demolition crew on September 18 as part of TVA’s actions to get rid of old, obsolete, and unused structures in the Tennessee Valley region and make room for future projects that are expected to add more than 6,200 megawatts of power.
Orano USA CEO Jean-Luc Palayer (middle) shakes hands with Zeno Power’s cofounder and CEO Tyler Bernstein (left) and Chief Commercialization Officer Harsh Desai. (Photo: Orano USA)
Zeno Power, a developer of nuclear batteries, is to receive americium-241 recovered from Orano’s La Hague nuclear fuel recycling site in Normandy, France, under a strategic agreement announced by the companies on September 24.
WM Symposia’s Greg Meyer (left) with Mikhail Chudakov from the IAEA. (Photo: WM Symposia)
WM Symposia, which hosts the annual Waste Management Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., announced it has signed a practical arrangement with the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at strengthening international collaboration in the safe management of radioactive waste, decommissioning, and environmental remediation.
From left, Type One Energy CEO Christofer Mowry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and TVA president and CEO Don Moul stand in the old turbine room of the Bull Run fossil plant. (Photo: TVA)
The Tennessee Valley Authority has issued a letter of intent to fusion energy start-up Type One Energy regarding the utility’s interest in the potential deployment of Type One Energy’s fusion power plant technology at TVA’s former Bull Run fossil plant site once it is commercially ready.
Experience Nuclear Engineering 2025 campers pose with UNM resident assistants and engineering department staff, including Carl Willis (far right). (Photo: University of New Mexico)
Amentum says nuclear growth in the U.K. will result in the hiring of 3,000 new workers over the next four. (Photo: Amentum)
Global engineering company Amentum announced plans on Thursday to create 3,000 new jobs over the next four years on the back of growth in nuclear power and defense in the United Kingdom.
The announcement follows President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K., during which a number of deals between the two countries were announced.