Julie Kozeracki has been promoted to acting chief investment officer for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing, which was previously known as DOE’s Loan Programs Office.
The office “can do many amazing things and I’m looking forward to making more progress on my personal favorite: restarting, uprating, and building big nuclear reactors,” Kozeracki said in a Tuesday LinkedIn post.
Kozeracki has been with the DOE office since 2022 as a senior adviser and a director of strategy. Before DOE, she spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group, according to her LinkedIn biography.
Idaho National Laboratory announced Dec. 3 that its researchers have successfully created its first batch of fuel salt for its molten chloride reactor experiment.
The molten chloride reactor experiment will require a total of 72 to 75 batches of fuel salt to go critical, which makes it the largest fuel production effort at INL since the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II, according to the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy press release.
With the first completed, INL expects to deliver four more batches by March 2026. The molten chloride reactor experiment is expected to be online by 2028 for six months at INL at its Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States test bed, the Office of Nuclear Energy said.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) announced Nov. 28 it has established a Center for Fusion Energy in Canada.
The Center for Fusion Energy is a private-public partnership that will bring together leadership to advance fusion energy development, according to its press release. Along with AECL, the center was established with Canadian National Laboratories, Ontario Power Generation and Stellarex.
AECL has contributed $33 million, through the Canadian government AECL’s federal nuclear science and technology work plan, to the center. Ontario Power Generation invested $19.5 million and Stellarex is investing up to $39 million in fusion energy development.
James Gallagher Jr., a retired Westinghouse Electric, died this week in Pennsylvania at age 88. Gallagher retired from Westinghouse in 2000 following a nuclear industry career that took him to more than 40 countries, according to an obituary.
Following his retirement, Gallagher was a consultant on energy and environmental issues and served on several boards and served as a president of the Waste Management Symposia. Gallagher earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.