Experts from the United States and Norway are cooperating to make Norway free of high-enriched uranium, according to a September 21 statement from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
NNSA workforce initiative reaches out to universities
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the managing and operating contractor at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and the DOE’s Los Alamos National...
U.S. lawmakers look to simplify export control to grow international nuclear partners
Legislative proposals focused on streamlining the U.S. nuclear energy export process have circulated on Capitol Hill for several years, notably aimed at establishing a single point of contact...
Japanese fuel disposition mission starts at Savannah River Site
Employees at the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina recently began the dissolution of nuclear material from a Japanese...
NNSA takes over as Savannah River Site landlord
Nearly six years after it was first announced, the Department of Energy has transitioned landlord responsibilities at the Savannah River Site from the Office of Environmental Management to the...
BWXT fuel processing subsidiary pauses operations amid Hurricane Helene; site is "safe"
BWX Technologies subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. suspended operations last Friday at a Tennessee facility to assess conditions following Hurricane Helene. A company spokesperson said the...
From remediation to production: The DOE’s Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative
On July 28, 2023, the Department of Energy launched its Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, an effort to repurpose underutilized DOE-owned property—portions of which were previously used in...
HALEU without hyperbole: ANS speaks up for science and transparent risk assessment
The American Nuclear Society recently issued an open letter in support of a science-based approach to the regulation of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuels for commercial nuclear...
BWXT to probe options for new centrifuge pilot plant under contract with NNSA
BWX Technologies announced on August 26 that its Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary had received a contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration for a yearlong engineering study of...
SRS repurposing MOX fuel facility for national defense goal
A major milestone has been reached in the construction of a plutonium pit production facility at the Savannah River Site, located near Aiken, S.C.After 18 months of work involving local trade...
NNSA grants nonproliferation-related funds to two university consortia
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation has awarded a total of $50 million in cooperative agreements to the Consortium for Enabling...