The spot price of uranium at the end of November declined to $75.80 per pound, down from $80.00/lb at the end of October, according to uranium company Cameco. The high-water mark this year was in September, at $82.63/lb. The lowest price of 2025 was at the end of March, at...Read more
Date: 2025-12-05
Source: ANS Newswire
Candidates have officially been named to fill six ANS leadership positions with terms beginning in June 2026. Candidates for the one-year term as vice president/president-elect will succeed Mark Peters, who will in turn succeed Hash Hashemian as current ANS president.Read more
Date: 2025-12-05
Source: ANS Newswire
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has announced the completion of a three-year project to manufacture, physically test, and validate a disposal-ready universal canister system (UCS) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactors.Read more
Date: 2025-12-04
Source: ANS Newswire
This week, BWX Technologies, alongside Idaho National Laboratory and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office, announced the arrival of a full core of TRISO fuel at INL’s Transient Reactor Test Facility.Read more
Date: 2025-12-04
Source: ANS Newswire
The latest report from the University of Michigan Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program’s Technology Assessment Project (TAP) will be the focus of a webinar on December 11, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (EST).Sponsored by TAP in partnership with the university’s Fastest Path to Zero Initiative, the event will...Read more
Date: 2025-12-04
Source: ANS Newswire
Advanced nuclear energy start-up Antares has announced the close of a $96 million Series B funding round, led by Shine Capital with participation from Alt Capital, Caffeinated, FiftyThree Stations, Industrious, and other investors. The round raised $71 million in new equity capital and $25 million in debt for equipment, factory...Read more
Date: 2025-12-04
Source: ANS Newswire
The Department of Energy has selected the Tennessee Valley Authority and Holtec Government Services to support the early deployments of light water small modular reactors in the United States. The companies will each receive as much as $400 million in federal cost-shared funding to advance their initial SMR projects in...Read more
Date: 2025-12-03
Source: ANS Newswire
Four public electric utilities—three based in Nebraska and one in Oklahoma—recently signed a memorandum of understanding to form the Great Plains New Nuclear Consortium. The first goal of that new consortium is to explore the feasibility of deploying 1–2 GW of new nuclear (potentially in the form of small modular...Read more
Date: 2025-12-03
Source: ANS Newswire
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that it has completed its final safety evaluation (SE) for the construction permit application for Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyo. The application was submitted by TerraPower on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary, US SFR Owner (USO).Read more
Date: 2025-12-03
Source: ANS Newswire
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.orgThese days, the ship of civil nuclear technology we are all aboard is sailing through a turbulent passage. The winds and currents are favorable, but there are swells ahead: steep energy-demand projections, buoyant equity valuations, splashy announcements, a generational realignment of nuclear policies and institutional norms.Part of the reason...Read more
Date: 2025-12-03
Source: ANS Newswire