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Jan 15, 2025 | ans.org | Meredith Angwin |Lake Barrett |Susan Gallier

January 14, 2025, 12:01PMANS NewsA newly published standard is now available at the ANS store. The standard, ANSI/ANS-8.26-2024, , presents the fundamental elements of a training and qualification program for individuals with responsibilities for performing the various technical aspects of criticality safety engineering.

May 31, 2024 | ans.org | Peter Swift |Michael Apted |Lake Barrett |John Kessler

Switzerland’s national cooperative for the disposal of radioactive waste, Nagra, is distancing itself from recent reports regarding the work of the Geneva-based engineering start-up Transmutex, which claims to have developed a new technology for the transmutation of radioactive waste.

May 24, 2024 | ans.org | Joshua Goldstein |Craig Piercy |Lake Barrett |William E. Burchill

On the company’s earnings call this month, Constellation CEO Joe Dominguez was asked if there is a possibility of restarting the shuttered Three Mile Island plant—as is being proposed for the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan. “We’re not unaware that opportunity exists for us,” Dominguez said. “We’re obviously seen what’s happened with Palisades and I think that was brilliant. Brilliant for the nation.

May 3, 2024 | ans.org | Craig Piercy |Peter Swift |Michael Apted |Lake Barrett

Borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) uses off-the-shelf directional drilling technology developed and commercialized by the oil and gas sectors. It is a technology that has been gaining traction in recent years in the nuclear industry. Disposal can be done in one or more boreholes (including an array) drilled into suitable sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic host rocks.

May 1, 2024 | ans.org | Lake Barrett

An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is progressing in accordance with the plan approved by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority. March 1, 2021, 3:01PMUpdated Nuclear NewsEarlier this week, Japan announced its intention to move ahead with its plan to discharge re-treated, diluted tritiated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean.