Innovation & Infrastructure

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is joining the board of directors for medical isotope manufacturers SHINE Medical Technologies. Ryan represented Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District for 20 years, until the beginning of this year. The district includes the city of Janesville, where SHINE is headquartered and Ryan has lived since leaving Congress (though he […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded Cray Inc. a $600-million contract to build the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, which the agency wants to start crunching numbers in 2023 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Cray must deliver El Capitan in late 2022, the NNSA stated in a press release Tuesday. The machine […]

An unidentified U.S. Energy Department Office of Environmental Management nuclear facility needs to remedy shortcomings in its cybersecurity program, according to DOE’s Office of Inspector General. The Energy Department IG identified weaknesses in access controls, contingency planning, and continuous management, according to the memo dated July 19. The detailed report of the actual findings was not […]

Sonal Patel POWER Magazine An innovative nuclear wastewater treatment approach that could provide a cost-effective alternative to fixed-column ion-exchange plants is poised to enter the nuclear market. Atkins, a company that multinational engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin acquired in 2017, announced in June that it would team with Swedish technology firm SpinChem AB in a […]

An unidentified Energy Department nuclear facility needs to remedy shortcomings in its cybersecurity program, according to DOE’s Office of Inspector General. “Furthermore, we found that limited cybersecurity resources at the site impacted the ability of the site to ensure that all security controls were fully implemented,” the Energy Department IG said in the memo dated […]

An air tunnel at a degrading Savannah River Site nuclear materials processing facility should be able to withstand an earthquake, according to a detailed analysis for the Department of Energy, despite concerns raised two years ago by a federal safety board. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), management and operations contractor for the 310-square-mile DOE facility […]

The nuclear industry wants to ensure the Department of Energy completes an ongoing research project on dry storage of high-burnup reactor fuel. The Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade association for the industry, on June 25 submitted its sixth update to the Energy Department regarding research and development priorities for the long-term storage and transportation of […]

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Monday it had issued three cooperative agreements, each worth $15 million in matching funds, to companies aiming to produce the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). The recipients are: Niowave, of Lansing, Mich.; NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, of Beloit, Wis.; and SHINE Medical Technologies, of Janesville, Wis. An agreement with […]

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes said this week it has finished building a facility for processing the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). The 20,000-square-foot plant in the company’s home city of Beloit, Wis., will eventually be used to dissolve irradiated molybdenum-99 targets to fill NorthStar’s Mo-99 source vessels. It is expected to more than double NorthStar’s current output […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management should focus more on “breakthrough technologies” in nuclear cleanup operations of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said this week. Such technologies could cut the time needed for environmental remediation jobs, the National Academies said in a report Monday. The DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) […]

BWX Technologies anticipates regulatory approval and initial revenue in the first quarter of 2021 on its generators for the medical isotope technetium-99m, according to its latest financial presentation. The Lynchburg, Va., company, better known as a contractor for the Departments of Defense and Energy, in 2018 began seeking a slice of the global business for […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management should focus more on “breakthrough technologies” in nuclear cleanup operations, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said this week. Such technologies could cut the time needed for environmental remediation jobs, the National Academies said in a report Monday. The DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) should […]

BWX Technologies anticipates regulatory approval and initial revenue in the first quarter of 2021 for its generators for the medical isotope technetium-99m, according to its latest financial presentation. The Lynchburg, Va., company, better known as a contractor for the Departments of Defense and Energy, in 2018 took aim at what it says is a $400 […]

Environmental groups that sued to stop construction of the Department of Energy’s new uranium hub in Tennessee want a federal judge to cut to the chase and rule in their favor, court papers filed this week show. The anti-nuke coalition on Monday asked for a summary judgment in the nearly 3-year-old lawsuit in the U.S. […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced plans to provide another $60 million in funding for domestic commercial programs to produce the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). The department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) intends to begin negotiations with four companies on cooperative agreements, each worth as much as $15 million. The anticipated recipients are: […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced plans to provide another $60 million in funding for domestic programs to produce the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). The department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) intends to begin negotiations with four companies on cooperative agreements, each worth as much as $15 million. The anticipated recipients are: NorthStar […]

Environmental groups that sued to stop construction of the Department of Energy’s new uranium hub in Tennessee want a federal judge to cut to the chase and rule in their favor, court papers filed Monday show. The anti-nuke coalition this week asked for a summary judgment in the nearly 3-year-old lawsuit in the U.S. District […]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) could soon award a new tranche of funding to support U.S. commercial manufacturing of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a senior official said this week. “We’re working through the competitive procurement process and I hope that we can make an announcement on that soon,” William […]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) could soon award a new tranche of funding to support U.S. commercial manufacturing of the medical isotope molybdenum-99, a senior official said this week. “We’re working through the competitive procurement process and I hope that we can make an announcement on that soon,” William “Ike” […]

Roofing repairs at the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) H Canyon processing facility will begin this summer after rainwater dripped through a crack in the roof to the ground floor of the facility. The water became contaminated as it passed through the nuclear materials processing area on its way to the first level of the canyon, Monte […]

Roofing repairs at the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) H Canyon processing facility will begin this summer after rainwater dripped through a crack in the roof to the ground floor of the facility. The water became contaminated as it passed through the nuclear materials processing area on its way to the first level of the canyon, Monte […]

By John Stang A California nuclear waste disposal startup on Wednesday successfully inserted a narrow canister through 2,000 feet of vertical shaft to deposit it in a horizontal tunnel — and then later retrieved the same small container. Deep Isolation, a 2-year-old firm from Berkeley, demonstrated its prototype canister at an undisclosed commercial oil and […]

The Vermont Public Utility Commission is scheduled next week to issue its decision on approval of the sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Parties to the three-member panel’s review of the deal received notice Thursday in a one-sentence memorandum from Clerk of the Commission Judith Whitney: “The Vermont Public Utility Commission has […]

SHINE Medical Technologies said Tuesday it has secured a $150 million financing pledge from a New York City-based healthcare investment firm to fund construction of its Wisconsin medical isotope manufacturing facility. Deerfield Management Co. will provide the money in several installments, dependent on SHINE achieving select milestones, according to a press release. SHINE has received […]

International Isotopes has significantly cut its losses on the back of higher revenue in its latest earnings quarter and through the first nine months of 2018, according to the company’s new 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The numbers build on the Idaho Falls, Idaho, nuclear medicine specialist’s prior earnings report, which […]

International Isotopes has significantly cut its losses on the back of higher revenue in its latest earnings quarter and through the first nine months of 2018, according to the company’s new 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The new numbers build on the Idaho Falls, Idaho, nuclear medicine specialist’s prior earnings report, […]

SHINE Medical Technologies has received its first production accelerator as it gears up for manufacturing the medical isotope molybdenum-99. The accelerator from Phoenix LLC arrived on Oct. 15 in Building One of SHINE’s facility in Janesville, Wis., facility, according to an Oct. 18 press release. It will be used for training, preparing maintenance procedures, and […]

A September review by the Department of Energy compounded the agency’s alleged transgressions of federal environmental law stemming from a 2016 design change to a next-generation uranium plant under construction at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, a band of environmental groups said this week in an amended federal lawsuit. The supplemental analysis DOE’s semiautonomous […]

A September review by the Department of Energy compounded the agency’s alleged transgressions of federal environmental law stemming from a 2016 design change to a next-generation uranium plant under construction at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, a band of environmental groups said this week in an amended federal lawsuit. The supplemental analysis DOE’s semiautonomous […]

A $40 million project to refurbish all 119 miles of paved roads at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina is on pace for completion by fiscal 2023, with work on the last of three major roads expected to wrap up by 2020. In an update on the project last week, Thomas Johnson, the Department […]