Eric Epstein, who has previously served as the chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, has filed a petition opposing the proposed name change for Three Mile Island Unit-1 to “Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center”.
In the petition, filed on April 18, Epstein requested a hearing to challenge the name change as he claimed the notion to rename the Three Mile Island unit is “an act of cultural vandalism. You can’t rebrand a nuclear disaster,” he stated.
On Jan.13, Constellation submitted an application to rename the unit after Christopher Crane, the former CEO of Constellation’s parent company, Exelon. The NRC accepted to review the amendment on Jan. 23, with the expectation of completing the review by May 23.
EnergySolutions announced on Wednesday a partnership with Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) and the state of Utah to explore the development of an advanced nuclear generation at the Intermountain Power Project site near Delta, Utah.
The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IPA and the state of Utah on Wednesday. Within the aspects of the project, the three parties will look at the potential development of small modular reactor nuclear baseload power and collaborate with various stakeholders.
“We are excited to pursue this opportunity to create a clean energy hub for the Western United States,” EnergySolutions president and CEO Ken Robuck said in the company’s Wednesday press release.
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Monday that the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently performed a sequence of first-of-a-kind criticality experiments that provide data that supports the transportation of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) TRISO fuel.
The experiment was performed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center. Kairos Power collaborated with the LANL as it intends to use HALEU TRISO fuel for its fluoride-salted cooled high temperature reactors.
The project experiment, TRISO-form HALEU-fueled Experiment for Transport Applications (THETA), was performed as a bigger effort by the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate usage, storage and transportation of HALEU.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission regional administrator Laura Dudes has stepped away from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) after 30 years of service.
Dudes first began working for the NRC in 1994 and held various roles. In 2019, Dudes became the regional administrator in region II, which oversees regulatory activities in the southeast part of the United States. According to her LinkedIn profile, she oversaw the inspection program for 35 operating nuclear reactors, nine fuel cycle facilities and NRC’s center for new reactor construction expertise.
After she left the NRC, The Nuclear Company, a private nuclear deployment company, announced Dudes as its vice president of regulation affairs in the company’s Tuesday press release.
Lockheed Martin and Amentum on Wednesday said they have reached a deal for Amentum to sell its engineering and technology-focused Rapid Solutions business to Lockheed for $360 million in cash.
Rapid Solutions will become part of Lockheed Martin’s Space segment when the transaction closes, which is expected in the second half of 2025. Rapid Solutions accounted for about 1 percent of Amentum’s sales in 2024, which were $8.4 billion. The business has about 230 employees.
Rapid Solutions manufactures intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance systems, advanced communications, and tactical systems. Amentum said the divesture is part of its strategy to focus on advanced engineering and technology-focused solutions, and will help with debt reduction. The company expects the deal to provide $325 million in after-tax proceeds. A version of this article was first published in Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily.
