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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A series of firsts delivers new Plant Vogtle units
Southern Nuclear was first when no one wanted to be.
The nuclear subsidiary of the century-old utility Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Ga., joined a pack of nuclear companies in the early 2000s—during what was then dubbed a “nuclear renaissance”—bullish on plans for new large nuclear facilities and adding thousands of new carbon-free megawatts to the grid.
In 2008, Southern Nuclear applied for a combined construction and operating license (COL), positioning the company to receive the first such license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012. Also in 2008, Southern became the first U.S. company to sign an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a Generation III+ reactor. Southern chose Westinghouse’s AP1000 pressurized water reactor, which was certified by the NRC in December 2011.
Fast forward a dozen years—which saw dozens of setbacks and hundreds of successes—and Southern Nuclear and its stakeholders celebrated the completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4: the first new commercial nuclear power construction project completed in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
Thursday, June 19, 2025|8:00AM–3:00PM CDT
Explore the world-class nuclear facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, where we are accelerating nuclear science and technology to drive U.S. prosperity and security.
We will visit one-of-a-kind x-ray and microscopy facilities that let Argonne and visiting scientists characterize nuclear fuels and structural materials, including the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science user facility and one of the premier X-ray light sources in the world. The APS has recently undergone a comprehensive upgrade that increased the brightness of its X-ray beams by up to 500 times. Researchers using the upgraded facility are able to probe materials faster and at higher spatial and time resolutions, opening up new frontiers for both science and industry. We will also visit Aurora, a lightning-fast supercomputer that harnesses Artificial Intelligence to simulate advanced nuclear reactors, and some of our experimental facilities where we test the durability and safety of nuclear reactor equipment, such as the Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL) facility.
