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Oct 23, 2024 | 
ans.org | Jeremy Hampshire |Yasir Arafat
A comprehensive set of standards for floating nuclear power plants, Requirements for Nuclear Power Systems for Marine and Offshore Applications, has been released by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | Yasir Arafat
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
ans.org | Yasir Arafat
Microreactor developer Aalo Atomics municipal electric utility Idaho Falls Power have developed a memorandum of understanding that could lead to the siting of seven sodium-cooled microreactors and a power purchase agreement for Idaho Falls.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
ans.org | James Conca |Yasir Arafat |Jeremy Hampshire |Matt Wald
The 2024 American Nuclear Society Annual Conference opened with a bang yesterday as 1,200 attendees gathered in Las Vegas to network, collaborate, and socialize. Honors and awards were presented to several recipients, and ANS welcomed twelve new Fellows.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Yasir Arafat |Edith Cowan
As electric vehicle (EV) demand accelerates, so does the need for lithium batteries. But these batteries contain valuable critical minerals, as well as toxic materials, so they should not be treated as common waste. Unlike China and some European countries, Australia lacks a dedicated lithium battery recycling facility. Just 10%[1] of Australia’s lithium battery waste was “recycled” in 2021. This means the batteries were collected and shredded locally before being sent overseas for recycling.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
retizen.republika.co.id | Yasir Arafat
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
ans.org | Yasir Arafat
Georgia Power has begun the process of loading fuel into the Vogtle plant’s Unit 4 reactor, the company announced yesterday, marking another pivotal milestone toward commercial operation of the second of the facility’s two new units.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
ans.org | Yasir Arafat
Nuclear thermal hydraulics—for light water reactors or advanced reactors cooled by gas, metal, or salt—is all about defining safety and performance margins as things heat up. After decades of planning and weeks of preparation and checks, the first batch of legacy waste has been retrieved from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at the Sellafield nuclear site in West Cumbria, England.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
ans.org | Yasir Arafat
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak tightness test on what it called “the fourth megavolume saltstone disposal unit (SDU)” at the site.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
ans.org | Yasir Arafat
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has directed its staff to issue a final rule and associated regulatory guide that applies risk-informed, performance-based emergency preparedness requirements to small modular reactors and other new technologies, the agency announced on August 14. The technologies include non–light water reactors, research and test reactors, and medical radioisotope facilities.
