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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
R. W. Steffens, J. C. Crowe, G. L. Borsheim, J. C. Wormeli
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 2 | June 1971 | Pages 213-221
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30886
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A nondestructive testing (NDT) program is currently being developed at Battelle-Northwest, under the sponsorship of the Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, to provide integrity assurance for waste capsules containing solidified radioactive cesium and strontium. Initiation of this project early in the design program for the waste capsules has permitted advanced nondestructive testing techniques to be included in the testing program. An ultrasonic inspection system has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory using simulated specimens. Acoustic emission techniques, examined for potential use as a weld quality monitor, are promising but development is not yet complete.