The Department of Energy has made several awards under their solicitation DE-FOA-0003364 and one of them was to Flibe Energy. The total funding was originally described as $10M but ended up being $19M in the final selection, divided among five awardees. DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy Awards $19 Million to Advance Recycling of Used Nuclear […]
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce met yesterday in a hearing entitled “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era.” Several witnesses from the nuclear industry gave testimony and responded to questions. Representative Gary Palmer of the sixth Congression district of Alabama asked a question to Dr. John Wagner of Idaho National Laboratory […]
0:00 – Introduction: AI, energy needs & nuclear’s comeback 3:05 – China’s molten salt thorium reactor: what they built and why it matters 5:29 – How China’s TMSR copies and extends the 1960s Oak Ridge experiment 6:53 – China’s alloy breakthrough & why they’re now in the lead 8:00 – Why should we care about […]
Russia Withdraws From Cold War Plutonium Deal With US Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement The Russians are exiting the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) with the United States. To be honest, the treaty has been pretty dead for a long time now, largely since the United States abandoned their strategy to make […]
A professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has posted a video on thorium reactors asking whether it’s “something everyone should go and embrace, or an interesting idea that doesn’t matter.” It’s a fair question, and he answers parts of it well. But his conclusion rests on an incomplete picture — both of the competitive […]
Eighty years ago today, in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico — the Journey of the Dead Man — the first nuclear weapon was detonated in the hour before dawn. The weapon was nicknamed “the Gadget.” It was made of plutonium, an element that had not existed on Earth in any measurable quantity […]
Yesterday, President Trump issued four executive orders related to nuclear energy. Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base Strengthening the Domestic Nuclear Fuel Cycle…Within 240 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Energy…shall prepare…a report that includes…recommendations for the efficient use of the uranium, plutonium, and other products recovered through recycling and reprocessing; The […]
I really love to talk and think about nuclear power in a maritime environment. But strangely enough, until recently, not many other people seemed to feel the way that I do. A lot of people seem to think that it is strange to talk about nuclear power being used to move a big ship across […]
Politicians will often tell you that they want you to help guide them in making good decisions. I’ve heard this enough times, and participated in enough of these efforts, that I have grown fairly skeptical of their sincerity. But I have to admit after participating in a meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, last week with their […]
Guangming Daily: After building the Shanghai Light Source, he pioneered a new generation of nuclear energy for 16 years At the 11th “Serve the Country Forum” held by the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently, Researcher Xu Hongjie, Director of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the […]