Exelon Entertains Idea of Splitting Its Utilities and Nuclear Businesses

Nov 5, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

U.S. energy giant Exelon Corporation is mulling a decision to split the company’s multistate utilities from its nuclear generation arm. The consideration comes on the heels of a financially rough year for the company which announced in August that it would be closing...

How Manufacturers Can Meet the Requirements of the DoD’s CMMC

Oct 30, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Latest News, Nuclear, OTEK Meters

As the manufacturing industry increasingly becomes more reliant on digital systems, they also become more vulnerable to cyber security attacks. Now it’s true that most U.S. manufacturers already have provisions or protocols for cyber security in place, but are they up...

DOE Awards $1.4 Billion to SMR Project

Oct 23, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear

The future of small modular reactors just received a major boost from the Department of Energy. Struggling in recent weeks after the collective decision by the Utah Associated Municipal Power System (UAMPS) to scrap its acceptance to be the pilot program for leading...

Cyber Security an Issue for the Maritime Industry

Oct 16, 2020 | Cybersecurity, OTEK Meters

Cyber security is becoming an increasing problem for the maritime industry. As the information age has increasingly become digital, it should be no surprise that cyber security has become an important issue across nearly every sector of business, including industries...

Nuclear Fusion Possible by 2025?

Oct 8, 2020 | Nuclear

Once the stuff of science fiction and speculative energy geeks with far-fetched dreams, a new series of studies published in the Journal of Plasma Physics last month, and in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, postulates that controlled nuclear...

Raytheon Awarded $60.4 Million in DOD Contract

Oct 2, 2020 | Military

U.S. Department of Defense contractor, Raytheon Technologies Corp., has been awarded a $60.4 million-dollar federal contract for the development of a surface to air weapon system, in conjunction with the German manufacturer Diehl Defense GmbH. Work is expected to...

New U.S. Hybrid Fuel Could Galvanize Nuclear Industry

Sep 25, 2020 | Latest News, Nuclear, OTEK Meters

As the number of global nuclear reactors has declined to a 30-year low, advocates for nuclear energy say the industry is in dire need of innovation to keep its preeminence in the world’s energy future secure. Design advancements such as small modular reactors have...

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...