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Looking back at 2022—January through March

January 3, 2023, 3:00PMNuclear News

Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2023, let’s look back at what happened in 2022 for the American Nuclear Society and the nuclear community. In today's post that follows, we have compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from January through March 2022.

Stay tuned this week for the top stories from the rest of the past year.

But first, click here for some of ANS’s activities for 2022.

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Tennessee senators call on Trump to “rescue TVA from itself”

March 28, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

In a strongly worded opinion piece published by Power Magazine on March 24, Tennessee Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty call for new leadership at the Tennessee Valley Authority to...

DOE commits to supplying HALEU to five advanced nuclear companies

April 10, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

The Department of Energy has announced its first round of conditional commitments to provide high-assay low-enriched uranium to five U.S. nuclear developers. According to the DOE, the delivery...

Will Palisades be the “comeback kid”?

Historic nuclear plant restart could happen in 2025.

April 11, 2025, 3:03PMNuclear News

Mike Mlynarek believes in this expression: “In the end it will be OK; and if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”As the site vice president at Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert...

Higher enriched nuclear fuel being tested at Vogtle

April 11, 2025, 12:07PMNuclear News

Southern Nuclear recently loaded nuclear fuel with uranium-235 enriched up to 6 percent—higher than the usual 3–5 percent enrichment—into Vogtle-2 to test it through irradiation....

Trump’s pick for NNSA administrator testifies before Senate committee

April 10, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Brandon Williams appeared before the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Armed Services this week to answer questions on how he would lead the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security...

How does subsequent license renewal relate to the restart of nuclear power plants?

April 10, 2025, 7:00AMNuclear NewsGary Adkins

Subsequent license renewal (SLR) authorizes nuclear power plants to operate for an additional 20 years beyond the 60 years of the initial license (years 1–40) and the first license renewal...

State legislation: Delaware delving into nuclear energy possibilities

April 9, 2025, 2:59PMNuclear News

A bill that would create a nuclear energy task force in Delaware has passed the state Senate and is now being considered in the House of Representatives....

Ontario Power Generation issues license to build an SMR at Darlington

On track to be the first SMR constructed in North America

April 9, 2025, 12:01PMNuclear News

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has announced its approval for Ontario Power Generation to construct a General Electric Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Darlington site in...

Savannah River removes legacy Y-12 uranium from HB Line

April 9, 2025, 9:34AMRadwaste Solutions

The Department of Energy has announced that workers at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina recently removed legacy uranium materials from the site’s HB Line as part of an effort to...

Age is just a number

April 8, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

This month’s Nuclear News pays tribute to the people and projects that keep our nuclear power plants running.In the nuclear industry, “life extension” is a venerable term that broadly...

Looking back at 2022—January through March

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