Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

The NRC is considering a request from Constellation Energy Generation, LLC to approve the release of 172.2 acres of land to DeWitt County, Illinois for a new marina, according to a regulatory filing posted online.  A previous licensee for Clinton Power Station, Unit 1, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC had executed a Quit Claim Deed for […]

President Joe Biden (D) this week signed a bill intended, among other things, to ease domestic and foreign deployment of U.S. nuclear technology and reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The reforms of the Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act were nested inside the Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023, an unrelated bill used […]

Meeting IAEA’s 2023 nuclear projections of doubling the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 will require doubling investments in nuclear power to $100 billion U.S. dollars annually, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.  Countries seeking to add nuclear energy to their arsenal need technical and financial expertise through deployment of nuclear energy and low […]

Meeting IAEA’s 2023 nuclear projections of doubling the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 will require doubling investments in nuclear power to $100 billion U.S. dollars annually, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.  Countries seeking to add nuclear energy to their arsenal need technical and financial expertise through deployment of nuclear energy and low […]

Meeting IAEA’s 2023 nuclear projections of doubling the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 will require doubling investments in nuclear power to $100 billion U.S. dollars annually, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.  Countries seeking to add nuclear energy to their arsenal need technical and financial expertise through deployment of nuclear energy and low […]

Jack Anderson and Sandra Fairchild, two experienced hands around the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, have joined the advisory board for Las Vegas-based contractor Longenecker & Associates, the company said this week. Anderson logged more than 30 years with DOE and its national laboratories, including tours with Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and the […]

An executive at American Demolition and Nuclear Decommissioning, John (Rick) Dearholt has died, the head of a Knoxville-based nuclear trade organization confirmed by phone Tuesday morning. A memorial service for Dearholt, a longtime board member for the Energy, Technology & Environmental Business Association, is set for Friday June 21, said the executive director of the […]

The Department of Energy last week announced a $180-million funding opportunity for nuclear fusion innovation in connection with its Fusion Energy Strategy 2024. In a White House ceremony, DOE said the solicitation is the latest step in “Decadal Vision” to hasten commercial development of nuclear fusion. Details on the funding opportunity for the Fusion Innovation […]

The Army has partnered with the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit on a new effort to assess industry’s nuclear microreactor solutions, with an aim to bolster energy resilience at installations. Under the new Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) prototype program, the Army and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) are seeking information on industry’s ability to provide […]

Baltimore-based Constellation Energy has not decided if it will pursue restart of its Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor in Pennsylvania, which was shuttered for economic reasons in 2019, the company said Thursday in an email response to an inquiry from Exchange Monitor. “Restarting closed nuclear plants offers another opportunity for the industry to add […]

Given recent lack of progress on recent efforts at international arms control, President Joe Biden’s administration could soon announce a more aggressive nuclear weapons policy, the Semafor news service reported Friday. The National Security Council could soon announce a revised approach to arms control after the United States has failed to secure new talks with […]

President Joe Biden’s (D) administration on Wednesday hosted what it called a White House Summit on Domestic Nuclear Deployment and announced it would create a federal working group to promote domestic nuclear technology. The closed-door summit included attendees from government and industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted a photo from the summit on the website X. […]

President Joe Biden’s (D) administration on Wednesday hosted what it called a White House Summit on Domestic Nuclear Deployment and announced it would create a federal working group to promote domestic nuclear technology. The closed-door summit included attendees from government and industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted a photo from the summit on the website […]

Nuclear power company Oklo, chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, dropped 54% directly after going public and rebounded to more than half of its initial offering price by market close on Thursday. Shares opened the day May 10 at $15.50 each and fell to $8.45 […]

Nuclear power company Oklo, chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, dropped 54% directly after going public and rebounded to more than half of its initial offering price by market close on Thursday. Shares opened the day May 10 at $15.50 each and fell to $8.45 […]

Nuclear power company Oklo, chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday and dropped 54% directly after going public. Shares opened the day Friday at $15.50 each and had fallen to $8.45 each at the closing bell, according to trading data published online by the exchange. Oklo, originally […]

PHOENIX — Nuclear waste repositories planned in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will help the public accept that nuclear power is safe, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency said here Monday. “This is going to help everybody,” William Magwood, director-general for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency, said Monday during prepared […]

PHOENIX— Contaminated old buildings at U.S. nuclear weapons sites are being torn down and, internationally, nuclear power is increasingly seen as a legitimate source of carbon-free electricity, participants in the Waste Management Symposia heard Monday. “For people familiar with EM [the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management], there is no better illustration of progress […]

The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is ready to proceed with installation of a small microreactor project capable of providing electric power for about 10 homes while providing the agency with the lab with a means of studying small reactor designs, DOE said in a Monday press release. The design team for the Microreactor […]

PHOENIX — Nuclear waste repositories planned in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will help the public accept that nuclear power is safe, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency said here Monday. “This is going to help everybody,” William Magwood, director-general for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency, said Monday during prepared […]

PHOENIX— Contaminated old buildings at U.S. nuclear weapons sites are being torn down and, internationally, nuclear power is increasingly seen as a legitimate source of carbon-free electricity, participants in the Waste Management Symposia heard Monday. “For people familiar with EM [the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management], there is no better illustration of progress […]

Two marquee events for the nuclear waste and energy industries were scheduled to begin next week in separate cities, with the Waste Management Symposia on the slate in Phoenix and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference set to kick off near agency headquarters in Rockville, Md. Among others, Paul Murray, deputy assistant secretary […]

In a Monday memo, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission effectively killed a proposed licensing path for advanced nuclear reactors that industry and some lawmakers said was too burdensome. The decision was a step in the commission’s Part 53 rulemaking that will create a new method for licensing a technically diverse group of reactor designs legally classified […]

The leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this week lauded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for eliminating what industry called a burdensome feature of a planned rule to license advanced nuclear reactors. Sens. Ben Carper (D-Del) and Shelley Capito (W-WVa.), the chair and ranking member of the committee, each released statements Monday praising […]

In a Monday memo, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission effectively killed a proposed licensing path for advanced nuclear reactors that industry and some lawmakers said was too burdensome. The decision was a step in the commission’s Part 53 rulemaking that will create a new method for licensing a technically diverse group of reactor designs legally classified […]

The Kentucky State Senate this week passed a bill that would create a non-regulatory agency to spur development of nuclear power in a state that has none of its own. Senate Bill 198 passed the state Senate unanimously on Monday, 34-0. It must still be approved in the state’s House of Representatives, beginning at the […]

A bill to create a state nuclear agency could get a vote in the Kentucky state Senate as early as next week. Senate Bill 198 on Thursday was sent to the state Senate’s Rules Committee, the final stop before the chamber floor. The measure would create a Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority, a non-regulatory body […]

A bipartisan bill introduced late last week in the South Carolina legislature would add promotion of small modular reactors to the responsibilities of the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Committee. House Bill 5118 would also restructure the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council by requiring that the director of the council be a full-time employee of the governor’s office, […]

A bipartisan bill introduced late last week in the South Carolina legislature would add promotion of small modular reactors to the responsibilities of the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Committee. House Bill 5118 would also restructure the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council by requiring that the director of the council be a full-time employee of the governor’s office, […]

Transmutex, Vernier, Switzerland, on Monday said it received $23 million in venture capital funding to help develop the company’s thorium-burning nuclear energy system. Transmutex announced the milestone in a press release. New York-based investment companies Union Square Ventures and Steel Atlas led this round, along with other investors including: At One Ventures, San Francisco. HCVC, […]