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America’s Top Performing Nuclear Plants Rely on Electrical Builders, Industries to Expand and Extend the Life of Their Critical Electrical Assets
Portland, Ore.–based PacifiCorp—owner of the soon-to-be-retired Wyoming coal plant selected in 2021 as the future site of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor demonstration project—has released its 2023 Integrated Resource Plan, which recommends the addition of two more Natrium units to the company’s generation resource mix by 2033.
Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing...
Six Ukrainian reactors reduce power following military campaign
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Ukraine’s operating nuclear power plants reduced electricity production yesterday morning as a precautionary measure following...
TerraPower plans to invest in South African HALEU laser enrichment technology
TerraPower announced today that it has signed a term sheet with ASP Isotopes Inc. as the first step of a planned investment in the construction of a high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)...
New edition of IAEA’s Climate Change and Nuclear Power available
The 2024 edition of Climate Change and Nuclear Power has been released by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The 99-page report focuses on the need for a significant increase in...
IAEA warning issued after assassination of Zaporizhzhia worker
A man killed in a car bomb last week in Enerhodar, Ukraine, may have been targeted because of his ties to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.The International Atomic Energy Agency received...
NRC signs off on volcanic risk report for TerraPower’s Natrium project
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has notified TerraPower that the company has delivered enough information on volcanic risk activity around its proposed small modular reactor project in...
Chernobyl-area land deemed safe for new agriculture
More than 80 percent of the territory that has been surveyed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “can be returned to agricultural production,” said Valery Kashparov, director of the...
IAEA expanding aid to protect Ukraine nuclear infrastructure
The military conflict with Russia that began in February 2022 has left Ukraine with “dangerous instability” of its national grid, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s...
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...
PR: American Nuclear Society challenges recent claims on HALEU fuel in Science magazine
ANS open letter scrutinizes hyperbolic unscientific claims about HALEU
Washington, D.C. — In an open letter to Science magazine, the American Nuclear Society (ANS), a professional nuclear science and technology society representing over 10,000 members...