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The USA has asked for more reactor design work from two technology teams led by General Atomics and Westinghouse. One of the designs could be picked for construction as the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).

Almost half of Americans are in favour of new nuclear power plants being built in the USA, but the majority said they are concerned about radioactive waste management, plant safety and nuclear material falling into the wrong hands, a new public opinion poll shows.

The withdrawal of its licence application yesterday marked the official end of the Yucca Mountain repository project.

America will develop a new strategy for long-term waste management under a 'Blue Ribbon' commission. Used nuclear fuel recycling will be one of the options on the table for the group.

A new computer algorithm that enables scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail has been developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The code could be used in the development of new reactor designs.

Jonathan Silver has been appointed executive director of the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) loan guarantee program in a move meant to speed up deployment of the support. He will report to energy secretary Stephen Chu, who has a "commitment to strengthen and streamline the DoE's operations...

USEC has appointed a new project technical director for its beleaguered American Centrifuge program. Gerald Prudom, who will coordinate all technical aspects of the project to build a centrifuge uranium enrichment plant based on US-developed technology, has already been with the project since 2005, prior...

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has made available through the Internet thousands of documents and publications related to nuclear research. In collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the DoE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has made more than 180...

The US Department of Energy has agreed to postpone by some six months a final review of USEC's loan guarantee application for the American Centrifuge Plant. The additional time will allow USEC to address the concerns that caused the DoE to deny the application only last week.

The US Department of Energy is cancelling the wide-ranging environmental analysis of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) project. Its decision follows a change in government policy on commercial reprocessing.

Employees of the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change should beware enchantments if they decide to visit the department's London office this weekend: it is being used for filming a scene in the next Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Staff have been warned...

Some 12 tonnes of 'surplus' US highly-enriched uranium is to be downblended and stored under a $209 million contract from the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The USA is to invest in a range of university nuclear programs in a new round of spending. Almost $9 million will go to 29 universities and 86 scholars to support the "important zero-carbon energy source."

"Cutting edge" nuclear research projects at US universities have been selected to receive Department of Energy funding, US energy secretary Steven Chu has announced.

[Associated Press, 26 January] Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, who worked on contract as a janitor at the US Department of Energy's shut-down K-25 atomic weapons uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has pleaded guilty to trying to sell stolen parts from the plant. Oakley smuggled six pieces of...

The US Department of Energy has not done enough to find uses for the depleted uranium left over from uranium enrichment and should do more to avoid having to treat the entire inventory as waste, according to the department's own internal watchdog.

The US Department of Energy has a plan to release a large part of its uranium holdings to the market. Stocks of Russian origin are earmarked for the first cores of new US reactors.

Duke Energy has signed a contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the disposal of used fuel from its proposed William States Lee III nuclear power station. Under the terms of the contract, the DOE will accept and permanently dispose of all the station's fuel, for which Duke will pay a...

The US Department of Energy has awarded a five-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to USA Repository Services LLC to manage and operate the used nuclear fuel repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

[NEI Overview, 13 October] Thorium is set to feature in the US Atomic Energy Act with an amending bill now before Congress. The Thorium Energy Independence and Security Act of 2008 proposes establishing "an office for the regulation of thorium fuel cycle nuclear power generation" in both the...

The new UK government Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced how its work is to be divided. Overall strategy comes from cabinet minister Ed Miliband, with Mike O'Brien taking the central task of "delivering a low carbon economy and ensuring secure and affordable energy supply"...

The US Department of Energy has 14 nuclear power projects to consider in its loan guarantee program. Their combined value of $188 billion is ten times what the DoE has allocated.

The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project took another step forward on 15 August when the US Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission submitted a joint licensing plan for the advanced reactor.

The US Department of Energy has invited applications for a total of up to $30.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy, nuclear and front-end nuclear power facility projects.

The US Department of Energy has appealed to industry on "how best to achieve the goals and meet the requirements" of its Next Generation Nuclear Plant project. It wants to finalize the conceptual design and operational parameters of the future reactor.