Looking back at 2021—Nuclear News October through December

TerraPower announced this week that it has awarded the major manufacturing contracts for its Natrium plant reactor enclosure system.These vendor awards help advance deployment and...

NuScale Power Corporation this week announced the opening of its Energy Exploration (E2) Center at the Ohio State University in Columbus....

American start-up Last Energy has received a letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), confirming the bank’s willingness to move forward with due diligence...

In 1989, the Savannah River Plant was renamed the Savannah River Site. It was originally established in 1950 near Aiken, S.C., to produce nuclear materials for the nation, primarily for...

Work to prepare Hanford’s Reduction Oxide Plant (REDOX) for decontamination and demolition has been put on hold as the Department of Energy shifts focus to higher-priority work at the...

Westinghouse Electric Company’s eVinci Advanced Logic System (ALS) Version 2 (v2) instrument and control (I&C) platform has received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

The Department of Energy announced yesterday the six companies that it has selected to supply low-enriched uranium (LEU) from new domestic enrichment sources under future contracts for up to...

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina recently joined in the nationwide celebration of the Department of Labor’s 10th annual National Apprenticeship Week,...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced last week that unfueled test rods featuring the company’s SiGA fuel cladding—made of a silicon carbide composite...