Nick Touran

Jan 21, 2025 | ans.org | Nick Touran

The Department of Energy has announced a competitive funding opportunity of up to $13 million to help first movers defray the licensing costs of bringing advanced nuclear reactors to market. I got into nuclear engineering when I realized I could apply my passion for computers to the critical human challenge of energy. After training, I spent the past 13-plus years building automated and integrated engineering analysis tools for the efficient design/licensing of advanced nuclear reactors.

May 15, 2024 | ans.org | Miguel Lopez |Miguel López |Nick Touran |Steven P. Nesbit |Craig Piercy

The University of Michigan’s Fastest Path to Zero Initiative has launched the Global Fusion Forum, an online platform focused on fusion energy. It was created to foster international engagement and collaboration in the area of fusion technology. April 6, 2023, 3:00PMNuclear NewsAt the University of Rhode Island, I initially enrolled as a candidate for an accelerated track to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, with a minor in nuclear engineering.

Jul 5, 2023 | whatisnuclear.com | Nick Touran

We’re super excited to announce the recent digitization of a 1961 filmdetailing a major repair of the Homogeneous Reactor Experiment-2 (HRE-2), afluid-fueled aqueous homogeneous reactor at the Oak Ridge National Lab inTennessee This reactor was an early predecessor to molten salt reactors. This is the third of four historical nuclear films in ourlatest batch of 4K digitizations from 16mm film at the National Archives.

Jul 3, 2023 | whatisnuclear.com | Nick Touran

We’re extremely excited to announce the first of four historical nuclearfilms in our latest batch of 4K digitizations from 16mm film at the NationalArchives. It features the 1 MWe PM-1 military microreactor, a small modularreactor that the US Army manufactured and tested in a factory, disassembled into16 modules, and air-lifted to the closest airfield by C-130, trucked to site,re-assembled, and then powered a remote Cold War radar station back in 1962.

Mar 24, 2023 | whatisnuclear.com | Nick Touran

The slide deck here describes our current energy context and explains hownuclear energy fits in. We are releasing them with CC-BY-NC licensing hopingthey’d be used around the world. Click here to view the slides The slides are made with reveal.js, which is a web-basedslide technology somewhat similar to Powerpoint, but you just present them fromthe browser. It is a two dimensional slide deck, where you go left toright for each major section and thendown to see the details.