Vol. 10, No. 102

Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

Google, Kairos and TVA to collaborate in nuclear energy deal

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has entered into a deal to purchase nuclear power from Kairos Power to facilitate energy at Google data centers in Alabama and Tennessee, the utility announced Monday. In a three-way collaboration between TVA, Kairos and Google, the Alameda, Calif.-based advanced nuclear company’s Hermes 2 plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. will deliver […]
  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Holtec looks to deploy four small modular reactors at Oyster Creek

    Holtec executives advocate to New Jersey lawmakers for a new nuclear and solar hybrid power plant at a decommissioning nuclear site in Lacey Township, N.J. amid a growing energy demand. Holtec CEO Kris Singh and president Kelly Trice testified at a joint session of New Jersey’s Senate Environment and Energy Committee and Assembly Environment, Natural […]

  • Defense & Military

    Allvin latest casualty in involuntary departures of top officers

    U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin will be at least the fifth top echelon military officer to leave his post involuntarily since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. The others include former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., Chief of Naval Operations […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Local Texas environmental group to challenge X-Energy’s proposed SMR

    A local Texas gulf coast group is calling for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to oppose Long Mott Energy’s construction permit application for small modular reactors in Seadrift, Texas over safety concerns. Dow and X-Energy submitted their construction permit application, under Dow’s subsidiary Long Mott Energy, to the NRC on March 31.  In an Aug. […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Oppenheimer’s grandson urges ‘peaceful nuclear renaissance’ in Times article

    The international community can abandon fear of nuclear weapons by harnessing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes instead, Charles Oppenheimer wrote in Times magazine Aug. 17. Charles Oppenheimer is the grandson of the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and the widely-called “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer.  Charles […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Hurdles must be addressed to maintain the current nuclear push, Bechtel exec says

    Bechtel chief operating officer and president Craig Albert recently wrote an opinion piece in The Hill outlining the importance of executing on the current nuclear push in the United States. In light of President Donald Trump’s administration issuing four nuclear-related executive orders, a real push for nuclear energy is on the horizon due to growing […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP records 48 waste shipments in July

    The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico received another 48 shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste in July, bringing its total this calendar year to 222 shipments.  Last month’s total is three more than the 45 WIPP received in July 2024, and the third highest total this year, following the 59 […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Almost 40 new summer interns at SRNS receive full-time job offers

    At Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ (SRNS) annual “Signing Day” event, 38 summer interns concluded their 12-week program by signing on to full-service opportunities with the prime contractor at Savannah River Site, according to a press release. The SRNS Internship Program, which caters to students from two-year technical colleges and four-year universities up to a doctoral […]

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