NuScale Energy Exploration Center opens at SC State

May 27, 2025, 9:42AMANS Nuclear Cafe
Zadok Tahsoh, an SC State senior nuclear engineering student, works with the control room simulator at the university’s Energy Exploration Center. (Photo: SC State)

NuScale Power Corporation’s latest Energy Exploration (E2) Center has opened at South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg. E2 Centers are designed to provide visitors with hands-on experiences in simulated scenarios of operations at nuclear power plants. NuScale has established 10 such centers around the world. The company officially presented the fully installed E2 Center to SC State on May 21, after a collaborative setup and training process was completed.

Student tour of DOE site investigates nuclear materials management

March 25, 2025, 12:01PMNuclear News
Students from South Carolina State University and Claflin University listen to Tristan Downey about the legacy control panels found in the Savannah River Site's L Area. (Photo: DOE)

A group of students recently visited the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C., to get a close look at L Area, a facility the DOE considers critical to nuclear materials management and nonproliferation missions at the site.