California-based Advetage Solutions has been awarded a mentor-protégé agreement with Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo), the maintenance and operations contractor for cleanup activities at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state.Read more
Date: 2025-11-07
Source: ANS Newswire
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for offer (RFO) seeking proposals from U.S. companies to build and power AI data centers on the DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. Companies are being sought to potentially enter into one or more long-term leasing agreements at the...Read more
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: ANS Newswire
CurtisCantwellSens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) and John Curtis (R., Utah) have introduced a bill that would enable nuclear fusion energy technologies to have access to the federal advanced manufacturing production tax credit.The companion version of the bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Carol Miller (R., W.Va.), Suzan DelBene...Read more
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: ANS Newswire
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently announced the creation of the new JobsOhio Energy Opportunity Initiative, a $100 million fund that will be used in part to attract supply chain companies for small modular reactor manufacturing and for the creation of “nuclear energy center of excellence.”Read more
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: ANS Newswire
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.ANS President...Read more
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: ANS Newswire
The Trump White House has nominated seasoned nuclear regulatory expert Douglas Weaver for a commissioner seat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. If confirmed, Weaver would fill the seat vacated by NRC commissioner Annie Caputo, who resigned in July.Weaver’s nomination was sent earlier today to the Senate Environment and Public Works...Read more
Date: 2025-11-05
Source: ANS Newswire
Constellation is considering adding 2,000 MW of nuclear energy at Calvert Cliffs, located on Chesapeake Bay near Lusby, Md., which would effectively double the site’s output, according to the company’s near- and long-term project proposals submitted to the Marland Public Service Commission this week.Read more
Date: 2025-11-05
Source: ANS Newswire
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.Read more
Date: 2025-11-05
Source: ANS Newswire
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy have updated a 2019 memorandum of understanding to coordinate on the review of advanced nuclear reactors and advanced reactor fuel technologies.Read more
Date: 2025-11-05
Source: ANS Newswire
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it is canceling an upcoming advanced reactor stakeholder meeting, originally scheduled for November 19, due to the government shutdown and the limitations on staffing at the agency.Read more
Date: 2025-11-04
Source: ANS Newswire