On day 10 of the government shutdown, the National Nuclear Security Administration had yet to furlough workers, but a spokesperson said that could change if members of Congress don’t agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. Read more here: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

ANS wrote the US Department of Energy in response to Executive Order 14302, offering expert recommendations on the storage, reprocessing, and disposal of used nuclear fuel: ans.org/file/21901/1/1…

Earlier this year, under the DOE-sponsored Microreactor Project, INL conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications. Read the full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

During a Senate EPW Committee hearing yesterday, Ho Nieh, President Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the NRC, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The NRC has approved a license application submitted by Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation technology for remediating abandoned uranium mine waste at inactive mining sites. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Duke Energy is looking to add SMRs and large LWRs to its fleet in the coming years to meet increased energy demands expected in its southeast region over the next 15 years. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

The NRC has authorized Urenco USA to enrich uranium up to 10 percent U-235 following changes to plant systems and procedures and an operational readiness review. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

SRNL is working to solve key obstacles in the nuclear fuel supply chain by providing a source of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel for advanced reactors. Read Catelyn Folkert's full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/article...

The DOE and the NRC will furlough thousands of employees and operate at reduced capacity under a government shutdown that followed a failed congressional vote on a short-term funding bill. Read more about the shutdown's impact on the nuclear sector on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-10...

Following the same milestones from Aalo Atomics and Valar Atomics, Oklo has become the third company participating in the DOE's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to break ground on its fast-tracked project at Idaho National Laboratory. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear announced it has signed a technology licensing agreement with government contractor Navarro Research and Engineering. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

NPP refueling outages are a complex time, with thousands of actions conducted within a short timeframe. The Outage Optimization project is focused on developing tools and methods to improve scheduling and in turn improve efficiency. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/article...

Zeno Power, a developer of nuclear batteries, is to receive americium-241 recovered from Orano's La Hague nuclear fuel recycling site. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

The TVA has issued an LOI to Type One Energy regarding the utility’s interest in the potential deployment of Type One Energy’s fusion power plant technology at TVA’s former Bull Run fossil plant site once it is commercially ready. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Ted Garrish is the DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy and Brandon Williams is the DOE’s undersecretary for nuclear security and administrator of the NNSA following their confirmations on Thursday by the U.S. Senate. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

The rate of new nuclear deployment worldwide has been relatively slow—but not necessarily for the reasons people might think. Read about one of the key culprits to slowing new nuclear development on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/article...

“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian. www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

The DOE's NNSA has awarded BWXT a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment pilot plant in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched U. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the IAEA has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

President Trump will be arriving in the U.K. in part to sign a new agreement on nuclear collaboration. Ahead of this, 10 companies in the nuclear sector have announced their entering into various deals to support industry development. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

DOE-EM said the Idaho Cleanup Project has recycled more than 2,100 tons of noncontaminated metal debris since 2022 as it works to demolish three legacy Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program prototypes at the INL Site. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Associate Dean, and past president of @americannuclear.bsky.social, Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, was one of the five instructors who led the Nuclear 101 course at the ANS Annual Conference. 📷: American Nuclear Society #idahostateucose #STEM #nuclearengineering

The sold-out inaugural Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) got off to a roaring start in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning with an opening plenary that included a highlight reel of the latest industry achievements. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

Two new fuel recycling announcements: 1. Oklo plans to design, build, and operate a spent fuel recycling facility. 2. Curio announced the completion of laboratory-scale demonstrations of its NuCycle voloxidation processing technology. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

The DOE announced that it will provide more than $35 million for 42 projects to help move emerging energy technologies from DOE sites related to grid security, AI, nuclear energy, and advanced manufacturing to the marketplace. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

David Garcia’s career in nuclear power began at the Zion plant in Illinois, and it sparked a journey across various roles and companies. Garcia’s path highlights the enduring relevance of nuclear power and its support industries. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

The Tennessee Valley Authority and energy production company Entra1 Energy recently announced the signing of an agreement to collaborate on the deployment of six new nuclear power plants equipped with NuScale small modular reactors. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

After news of the Trump administration’s push to get a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 broke, media played up the shock value. Few focused on the technical details of the new plan for lunar fission surface power. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-09...

In May, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator concluded an experiment by sustaining a plasma with a high triple product for 43 seconds. The machine far surpassed its own previous performance. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Today's feature explores DOE work in the Nuclear Energy University Program, which funds nuclear energy research, provide educational support, and make equipment upgrades more financially feasible, among other goals. Read the full article on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

The DOE made conditional commitments yesterday to provide HALEU to three companies: Antares Nuclear; Standard Nuclear; and Natura Resources. Following a contracting process, some of the companies “could receive their HALEU later this year.” Read more: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

DOE-NE is setting up a nuclear fuel Defense Production Act Consortium that will seek voluntary agreements with interested companies to increase fuel availability, provide more access to reliable power, and end foreign reliance on enriched U Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

The Nuclear Company announced a partnership with the University of South Carolina whereby the company will invest up to $5 million in the college. USC is to match the private investment with funds from federal grants and private donors. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

As AI drives unprecedented energy demands and accelerates the nuclear renaissance, industry faces a critical question: How do we rapidly deploy the clean-energy capacity our nation needs? Read the full article from Ken Rueter and ANS Pres. Hash Hashemian here: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

The Maine Maritime Academy is one of only six such institutions in the U.S. It maintains a distinct history in nuclear education; its first courses on the subject appeared in the fall semester of 1960. Read the full story of MMA’s nuclear history on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

One week after the DOE announced the selection of 10 companies for its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, one of those companies—Aalo Atomics—has become the first to make a major headline by securing $100 million in Series B funding. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Kairos Power, Google, and the Tennessee Valley Authority have announced a new power purchase agreement between Kairos and TVA to supply up to 50 MW to the TVA grid, which powers two data centers owned by Google. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Three members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright demanding “information about the DOE and its employees’ dealings with the NRC and its staff.” Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

A new article published by the DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, details the public-private partnership among PPPL, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

While most attendees of this year’s Annual Conference attended talks on a wide range of high-level topics in the nuclear world, some took part in the ANS's second offering of NUC 101. Read more about the course on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

The North Carolina Collaboratory is a research funding agency with a goal is to help transform research into practical applications for the benefit of North Carolina’s state and local economies. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

The race to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, got a boost today when the DOE unveiled the names of 10 companies selected for the Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program. Read more on each company and the program on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

SMR developer X-energy, together with its fuel-developing subsidiary TRISO-X, has selected Clark Construction Group to finish the building construction phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, known as TX-1, in Oak Ridge. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Nearly 300 public school teachers, career counselors, and school administrators from 11 middle and high schools in the Oak Ridge region of Tennessee recently attended a nuclear opportunities workshop hosted by the DOE. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Today, 25 nuclear research reactors are operating in universities across the country and have been for a long time—about 58 years on average. Read about three universities' work on new nuclear projects in collaboration with private industry on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

President Trump recently nominated Southern Nuclear's Ho Nieh for the role of commissioner at the NRC through the remainder of a term that will expire June 30, 2029. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

One of the more pivotal issues in the use of radiation sources is concern about their health effects. The current regulatory assumption is that every additional increment of radiation linearly increases the risk of cancer. Read Frank Augustine’s full article on: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

It’s been more than a month since President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after a lengthy reconciliation process. As drafts of the bill evolved, the fate of federal support for nuclear energy projects was often obfuscated. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Employees at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina have implemented a newly created carrier to transport spent nuclear fuel, reducing the time needed to process the material for permanent disposal in coming years. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...

Chris Wagner cofounded Eden Radioisotopes to address critical isotope shortages. Eden’s initiative provides a stable domestic source of essential isotopes like molybdenum-99 and lutetium-177. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: www.ans.org/news/2025-08...