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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded $27.3m for research & development to accelerate the Hanford Site’s tank waste clean-up mission. The funds are for 13 projects led by six national laboratories. Project duration is from two to three years. First-year funding ranges from $1.3m million to $3m per project. The laboratories and their projects are:

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-labs-awarded-funding-to-speed-up-hanford-tank-waste-clean-up-11594327

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) to complete the recent demolition of a building and removal of a reactor to make room for new facilities, LLNL said on 10 May.

Date: Saturday, 14 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsreactor-and-buildings-demolished-at-us-lab-site-9695816

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) had finished construction of the pipeline that will carry treated waste from a Hanford tank to the Waste Treatment and Immobilisation Plant (WTP) for vitrification, or immobilisation in glass.

Date: Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-prepares-for-radwaste-vitrification-at-hanford-9022447

It's hard to imagine a future where we can decarbonise our power grid affordably without using more nuclear power, Bill Gates told participants in the Nuclear Energy Assembly, held this week as a virtual event by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). The text of his keynote speech on 9 June is as follows.

Date: Friday, 11 June 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-Why-I-invest-in-nuclear-innovation

Russia’s nuclear tug, Nuklon, will be able to deliver 10 tons of cargo to the Moon in 200 days, according to documents from Roskosmos, published on the government procurement website.

Date: Saturday, 19 December 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-signs-contract-for-design-of-nuclear-space-tug-8416037

US company to build a proposed medical isotope facility in Janesville, WI The US nuclear regulator has published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity for submissions regarding a “first of a kind” application by Shine Medical Technologies to operate a proposed medical isotope production facility that does not require a nuclear reactor.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said submissions must be filed by 10 March 2020 by anyone who wishes to participate in the hearing process for the application.

Shine has proposed to construct and operate a facility in Janesville, Wisconsin for the production of the radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) through the irradiation and processing of a uranyl sulfate solution. The company said this patented process replaces a nuclear reactor with a low-energy, accelerator-based neutron source. 

This source functions by colliding deuterium ions with tritium gas to cause fusion. The fusion reaction results in high energy neutrons and helium-4. In other words, the accelerator takes a radioactive by-product created by nuclear power plants (tritium) and turns it into the same clean, harmless gas used to make balloons float.

Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/nrc-calls-for-submissions-on-first-of-a-kind-production-facility-1-2-2020

The US Department of Energy has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York, as the site for a new research facility that it says will be a game-changing resource for the international nuclear physics community. The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will be designed and constructed over 10 years and cost about USD1.6-2.6 billion.

Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Brookhaven-selected-to-host-new-US-ion-collider

The US Department of Energy has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York, as the site for a new research facility that it says will be a game-changing resource for the international nuclear physics community. The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will be designed and constructed over 10 years and cost about USD1.6-2.6 billion.

Date: Saturday, 11 January 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Brookhaven-selected-to-host-new-US-ion-collider

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $49.3m (€43.5m) in funding for nuclear energy research projects in 25 states as part of the government’s Nuclear Energy University Programme (NEUP) and Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) programmes, a DOE statement said.

The funds will cover facility access, cross-cutting technology development, and infrastructure awards for 58 advanced nuclear technology projects, the statement said.

The DOE said $28.5m (€25.1m) under NEUP will support 40 university-led nuclear energy research and development projects in 23 states. Seven other university-led projects will receive more than $1.6m for research reactor and infrastructure improvements providing important safety, performance and student education-related upgrades to a part of the US’ 25 university research reactors.

Date: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/doe-announces-close-to-usd50-million-in-funding-for-nuclear-energy-projects-7-2-2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced USD49.3 million in funding for nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure for 58 advanced nuclear technology projects in 25 states.

Date: Friday, 28 June 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-DOE-announces-funding-for-nuclear-energy-R-D

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