Blogs

Our service academies aren't really much known for developing NFL talent, but Navy linebacker Keegan Wetzel could hear his name called during the NFL Draft, which starts tonight and concludes on Saturday. Wetzel is profiled today in the Annapolis, Md., Capital Gazette , and his inspiring story deserves...

25 Apr (NucNet): Areva has signed a series of “key nuclear agreements” in China that cover the front end and the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, as well as nuclear reactors, the French company has announced. ...read more

Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs   Art Linkletter, a 1950s and ‘60s radio and television host, used to interview children for his show “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” In that spirit, at last year’s “Take your Child to Work Day” at the...

Decisions on the future of South Korea's fuel cycle have been put off for another two years. The country wants to recycle and reprocess used reactor fuel but requires American consent. ...read more

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed the final shipment of turbine rotors for the first AP1000 nuclear power plants under construction in China. ...read more

Vienna – Government ministers and international experts will discuss the future of nuclear energy at an IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, to be held 27 – 29 June 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. The conference aims to provide a forum for policy-makers...

Jim Hopf recently published a thought provoking post on ANS Nuclear Cafe titled New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivity Releases. In that post he points out the illogical way that the EPA applies and enforces its assumption that any ionizing radiation is hazardous, even down at levels far below...

25 Apr (NucNet): New safety requirements for the nuclear industry in China will have “major implications” with capital costs for each nuclear power plant increasing by up to 20 percent and Chinese companies forced to develop indigenous reactor designs...

One of the most vexing aspects of President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget request (as regards topic of blog, naturally) is the deep cut made to MOX facility construction in South Carolina. This is being built at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site and is about 60 percent complete. But let’s back...

If you’re looking for a compelling overview of the enormous potential for a career in the U.S. nuclear industry today, our Elizabeth McAndrew-Benavides has authored it in the May-June issue of Search & Employ . The potential for nuclear workforce participation is especially appealing for men and...

Commissioning work has been delayed at India's new Kudankulam nuclear power plant with the replacement of four valves in the passive core cooling system. ...read more

The first unit at the Ningde nuclear power plant in China's Fujian province is now operating commercially.The unit is one of four Chinese-designed CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors being built at the site. ...read more

23 Apr (NucNet): Lithuania says it plans to reopen the project to construct a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, on a site next to the shut-down Ignalinas nuclear station. ...read more

A company that has invested CAD120 million in a Quebec uranium project has launched legal action in response to a moratorium on uranium exploration and mining imposed by the provincial government. ...read more

Lithuania's optimal power mix would include nuclear along with a range of other sources, said new prime minister Algirdas Butkevičius, but the Visaginas project's economics are critical and need the buy-in of local partners. ...read more

23 Apr (NucNet): Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is to begin the installation of passive autocatalytic recombiners (PARs) in reactor buildings at two of the seven units at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant. ...read more

Holly Harrington Senior Advisor   The NRC is expanding its social media program next week by launching a pilot of a live discussion platform known as NRC Chat. The first Chat is scheduled for April 30 at 2 p.m. EST on the subject of history of U.S. nuclear...

A series of exchanges has seen the UK take control of three tonnes of plutonium it had been storing for foreign firms. The country's goal is to use plutonium stocks as reactor fuel for power generation. ...read more

Though I am pretty skeptical about the value of the Whitehouse.gov petition system, I have been convinced that it might sometimes be a vehicle for starting an important conversation. Recently, someone started a petition asking the Obama Administration to stop using the Linear, No-Threshold Dose response...

There was a reason that potential Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz’ confirmation hearings ended in just a single vote against. Besides indicating Moniz is eminently qualified, that dissenting vote came from Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and it had to do with...

We've been recognizing Earth Day all day long here on all of our social media platforms , but I wanted to share one image that warmed my heart today like no other. If you pop over to the home page at Reddit , the link that's currently ranked #1 is a story that originally appeared at Scientific...

Nuclear Notes friend Meredith Angwin kindly pointed us to a pdf of Robert Alvarez’s written testimony to the Vermont Senate committee considering a bill to tax the used nuclear fuel being held at Vermont Yankee. The fuller post about the Vermont hearing and who Robert Alvarez is is two below this one...

Work has formally begun on Namibia's newest uranium mine, with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Husab project. ...read more

Florida Power & Light is celebrating the completion of a major five-year upgrade program that has added over 500 MWe of capacity to four reactors at its Turkey Point and St Lucie sites. ...read more

The British government will go ahead with a process to sell its stake in Urenco, subject to security concerns and the company's complex ownership structure. ...read more