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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cladding: Innovative Materials Enhance Fleet Safety and Performance
A Montana citizens group received the go-ahead this week to collect signatures for a ballot initiative that could wind up repealing a recently enacted law that allows the state legislature to okay the construction of nuclear power facilities without direct input from the public.
IEA report focuses on SMRs and investment
The International Energy Agency has published a new report examining opportunities for the nuclear power industry to address concerns related to energy security and climate change. The Path to...
Purdue study describes benefits of coal-to-nuclear for Indiana
“SMRs present a viable opportunity for Indiana to transition to a cleaner, resilient, and diversified energy future. Successful deployment of SMR technology requires a careful balance of...
Argonne investigates industrial SMR applications for postwar Ukraine
Argonne National Laboratory will play a leading role in planning and rebuilding a nuclear-generated clean energy infrastructure for postwar Ukraine as part of the lab’s focus on developing...
Gail H. Marcus—ANS member since 1973
I like to say that I ended up at Massachusetts Institute of Technology because of my father. He saw that I seemed intimidated by the prospect of going there, so he dared me, figuring I would...
Chris Wright is Trump’s DOE pick
Oil industry executive Chris Wright has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next secretary of energy. Wright is also to serve on Trump’s new Council of National...
American Nuclear Society applauds Google's and Amazon's investments in nuclear
ANS CEO Craig Piercy welcomes tech industry's plans to build nuclear energy projects
Washington, D.C. — Craig Piercy, CEO of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), issued the following statement:"The American Nuclear Society applauds the announced partnerships between Google...
White paper argues for SMRs over renewables for data centers
A white paper produced by Schneider Electric makes the case for using small modular reactors to meet the energy challenges of the data center sector. “Small Modular Nuclear Reactors...
ANS open letter to Science magazine challenging claims about HALEU
September 3, 2024Dr. Holden ThorpEditor-in-Chief, ScienceSubject: Science magazine Policy Forum article “The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium” published June 2024Dear...
TVA puts $150 million toward SMRs as NRC backs quality assurance plan
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors approved $150 million in additional funding to continue design work and TVA’s plans for small modular reactors at its Clinch River site...
Energy analyst: Clean energy dreams come only with advanced nuclear
“We’re going to have to do things differently if we hope to trim the output of climate-changing emissions,” writes Matthew L. Wald in an essay recently published by the Breakthrough...