U.S. Nuclear Industry Receives a Boost from Small Modular Reactors

Sep 17, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

The U.S. nuclear industry’s future just got a little brighter. Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) just green-lit Phase 6 of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the first ever Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in the United States. Following on...

Exelon to Close Byron & Dresden Plants by 2021

Aug 28, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

U.S. energy giant Exelon Generation said in a statement released August 27th that the company will be retiring two of its most prominent and productive nuclear power plants, the two-unit each Byron and Dresden plants. Based in northern Illinois, the two respective...

X-energy Submits SMR Design to Canadian Nuclear Commission

Aug 14, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

X-energy, a privately held American nuclear reactor and fuel design company, has submitted a Vendor Design Review (VDR) to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for a cutting-edge new reactor facility. Colloquially referred to as the Small Modular Reactor...

U.S. Defense Contractor Raytheon Wins Contract for Weapon System

Aug 6, 2020 | Latest News, Military

U.S. Defense contractor Raytheon Missile & Defense, based here in Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force, for a potential of $375 million. The order provides for the creation of a “Miniature Self-Defense Munition,” which would...

ITER and the Quest to Replicate the Sun

Jul 30, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

The ITER fusion project began its assembly phase this July, thirty-five years after its inception at the hands of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is a jointly funded and produced project by the United...

Browns Ferry Nuclear Earns Recognition for Carbon Innovation

Jul 17, 2020 | Modernization, Nuclear, OTEK Meters

In keeping with the global movement toward clean energy, Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Plant has been lauded for its three-year project that resulted in the plant being able to double its carbon-free energy output. The project allows TVA,...

Nuclear Energy’s Role in a Post COVID-19 Economy

Jul 10, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

Nuclear Power might have an essential role in the era of coronavirus. Earlier today, July 10th, Sama Bilbao y Leon, head of the Nuclear Technology Development and Economics at OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, gave a virtual speech via webinar concerning the impact nuclear...

Raytheon Technologies to Design New SATCOM System for U.S. Navy

Jun 26, 2020 | Military

Replacing technology systems they’ve maintained since the mid-1980s, Raytheon Technologies Corp announces they have been contracted to provide secure satellite communications (SATCOM) to the United States Navy and her seaboard allies. The deal, first announced as part...

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Bringing Manufacturers Back to the U.S.

Jun 19, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Latest News

In the wake of COVID-19’s effect on global supply chains, the increasing calls for a manufacturing resurgence in the United States could open new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. As economic effects from the virus began bleeding into business production and the...

COVID-19’s Impact on the Nuclear Industry

Jun 16, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

As the uncertain impact of COVID-19 continues to affect industries around the globe, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued a statement regarding the nuclear industry. Across the world, nuclear plant operators and staff have been taking strategic...