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A panel of vendors makes the case for it at the ANS winter meeting It is the burden of all senior executives when serving on panel discussions at industry conferences to walk a fine line between being interesting and engaging with a skeptical audience on one hand and on the other hawking the daylights...

Firm kicks-off effort to prepare a submission to the NRC for safety review Hyperion Power Generation, which is designing a small, 25 MWe, nuclear reactor, revealed design details Nov 18 ( slides ) about the company's product at the winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society taking place in Washington...

Two leading Senators sign on with Colorado Sen. Mark Udall Colorado Senator Mark Udall , (right)  has introduced a bill to  authorize federal R&D for small, modular reactors.  Udall said in a speech on the Senate floor he believes nuclear energy is an important part of the nation's...

The Truth about Nuclear Energy -- to be told -- at the Denver Art Museum, 7 PM Thursday, October 22nd 2009 Is nuclear power a "Green" energy solution?  Is it a viable option for mitigating climate change? Can small nuclear energy modules provide the baseload power required to make solar...

The reason is it has the world’s third largest reserve of bauxite, the raw stuff of aluminum When you think of small, developing nations, and nuclear energy, in the same firing of a synapse, what you get are small reactors.  Once on the market, small reactors will be comparatively cheap, easily...

It’s open to the public and includes real-time online access Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a workshop at the agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9, to discuss generic issues regarding potential applications for so-called “small and medium-sized” nuclear...

A nuclear engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit may do well with one What’s of interest to a nuclear engineer who doesn’t want to get swallowed up in the bureaucracy of a mega utility is that  small reactor projects are organized like Silicon Valley start-ups. Venture capitalists are willing to...

A modest proposal to avoid killing off innovative reactor designs due to cost recovery for design certification reviews In a widely read OP ED published in the Wall Street Journal on June 25, Bob Metcalfe , a well-known entrepreneur and venture capitalist, complained about the “high costs and astronomical...

Thomas Sanders comes to the office this week with a commitment to help the U.S. rebuild its manufacturing capabilities for nuclear technologies In an exclusive interview with the Energy Collective, Thomas Sanders, Ph.D., who takes office today as the President of the American Nuclear Society ( ANS )...

Chairman Dale Klein speech says they're part of the "nuclear renaissance."  He has some advice for how to deal with their licensing issues. The drumbeat about a global nuclear renaissance drives  is giving some people a headache and that includes NRC chairman Dale Klein who complained...

Conventional light water units of just 45 MW could go online by 2015 There's a fair amount of excitement over an article published in the July 15 issue of Popular Mechanics about a 45 MW light-water reactor.  It describes a plant design that is just 65 feet long with a reactor unit as tall as...