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Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2024, let’s look back at what happened in 2023 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from April through June 2023.
Stay tuned for the top stories from the rest of the past year.
Will Palisades be the “comeback kid”?
Historic nuclear plant restart could happen in 2025.
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...
DOE commits to supplying HALEU to five advanced nuclear companies
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...
Higher enriched nuclear fuel being tested at Vogtle
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....
How does subsequent license renewal relate to the restart of nuclear power plants?
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
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....
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UIUC and NANO Nuclear reboot plans for a FOAK research reactor
Plans to bring a university research reactor like no other to the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) were punctuated last fall by the news that Ultra Safe Nuclear,...
IAEA donates ambulance, medical equipment for Ukraine’s nuclear workforce
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog delivered emergency medical supplies to Ukraine last week as part of ongoing aid to the country since its conflict with Russia began in 2022....
Tennessee senators call on Trump to “rescue TVA from itself”
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...
Trump’s pick for NNSA administrator testifies before Senate committee
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...
Resurrecting Three Mile Island
When Exelon Generation shut down Three Mile Island Unit 1 in September 2019, managers were so certain that the reactor would never run again that as soon as they could, they had workers drain...
