Nuclear News

Nuclear News is a leading trade magazine known globally within the nuclear industry. It provides updates on various topics including plant operations, maintenance, and security, as well as relevant policies and legislation. The publication also covers international news, research, and nonpower uses of nuclear technology, such as food irradiation and nuclear medicine. Additionally, it discusses space nuclear applications, waste management, fuel issues, and business contracts. The American Nuclear Society has been publishing this magazine since 1959.

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Articles Tagged with: hot fuel examination facility -- ANS

1 week ago | ans.org | Cory Hatch

At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell. Idaho National Laboratory’s newest facility—the Sample Preparation Laboratory (SPL)—sits across the road from the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which started operating in 1975.
Articles Tagged with: transient reactor test facility -- ANS

1 week ago | ans.org | Cory Hatch

Byron commercial nuclear fuel rods being unloaded from cask inside a HFEF hot cell. (Photo: INL)At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow

1 week ago | ans.org | Cory Hatch

Instead of clamping down, Maupin maneuvers the clawlike tongs within millimeters of the fuel rod and hovers there. Another operator, Rob Cox, cuts through the fuel rod with a slow-speed diamond saw. The moment Cox finishes the cut, the section of the fuel rod drops away and Maupin snags it in mid-air with the manipulator tongs. “Nice catch,” Cox says.
Atomic Museum marks 20 years of education

2 weeks ago | ans.org | James Conca

The NNSS, about 65 miles north of Las Vegas, was the site of nuclear weapons testing between 1951 and 1992.
U.S. nuclear capacity factors: Stability and energy dominance

1 month ago | ans.org | Susan Gallier

Nuclear generation has inertia. Massive spinning turbines keep electricity flowing during grid disturbances. But nuclear generation also has a kind of inertia that isn’t governed by the laws of motion. Starting—and then finishing—a power reactor construction project requires significant upfront effort and money, but once built a reactor can run for decades.
Nuclear Newswire -- ANS

1 month ago | ans.org | James Conca

In a Q&A posted on TVA’s website last week about a “new nuclear heyday,” Bob Deacy shared his vision for the Clinch River nuclear site in Oak Ridge, Tenn.—and some news about next steps for the company’s small modular reactor plans.
Can we please stop this nonsense about what’s the best source of energy?

1 month ago | ans.org | James Conca

Nuclear is—period. But don’t take my word for it: ask the United Nations. The 2021 report Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options, by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), shows that nuclear has the lowest overall impacts on human health and the environment, by any measure and from any perspective.
Nuclear Newswire -- ANS

1 month ago | ans.org | Chris O’Neil |James Conca

Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry. April 4, 2025, 12:01PMANS NewsApplications for the Society’s Glenn T.
Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials

2 months ago | ans.org | Chris O’Neil

About a decade ago, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science began a program called Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) to address some of the basic research needs for environmental management. These EFRCs are intended to realize the synergy from each center’s mixture of institutions that together can achieve research goals not possible without that symbiotic collaboration.
Articles Tagged with: duke -- ANS

2 months ago | ans.org | Susan Gallier

All three units at the Duke Energy’s Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina are now licensed to operate for an additional 20 years. When Floyd Harris began working at Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant about 24 years ago as a radiation protection technician, robotics and remote monitoring were considered tools for radiation protection and nothing more.