american nuclear society posts, articles, and infographics

Profiles of Exceptional Women In Nuclear Energy

August 25, 2011 by Dan Yurman
with 535 views

Nuclear energy, like many other highly technical science and engineering fields, was led in the post World War II era by men. In the decades that followed, many women entered the field. An indication of how much that presence has grown is that the Women in Nuclear (WIN) organization now lists 4,500 members, according to a press... [read more]

Howard Shaffer - Vermont’s nuclear debate, continued

December 13, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
with 1,130 views

With Vermont’s governor-elect, Peter Shumlin (D.)—the self-described number one opponent of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant—picking his cabinet and maintaining a high profile, the struggle continues unabated by the plant’s proponents who want to keep it from being shut down. Vermont Energy and the Climate Action Conference On... [read more]

Nuclear Industry Can Lead a Revival in Skilled Labor and Manufacturing in the United States

November 15, 2010 by Rod Adams
with 1,784 views

The Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Nuclear Society and the North American Young Generation in Nuclear have been investing time and money into focused workforce development programs for several years. The people leading the effort are taking the action to ensure that there are educated and trained people who are ready to meet the... [read more]

Honing the New Nuclear Energy Narrative

November 9, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
with 254 views

As a record number of nuclear leaders meet during the American Nuclear Society’s 2010 Winter Conference in Las Vegas (of all places) the men and women of the U.S. nuclear community are all asking a version of the same question: What now? Clearly, the results of November 2 will impact U.S. nuclear policy for the next two years, and probably reverberate much longer than that. [read more]

Nuclear Technology: The Rewards and Penalties of Being Special

September 30, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
with 657 views

By Ted Rockwell Years ago, a newspaper columnist intrigued me with a statement that science cannot tell us anything about real people. To the columnist, science could talk only about “average people,” which exist only in the imagination of the speaker. The scientifically average American, for example, has one testicle and one breast, 2.3... [read more]

Stand up double for SMRs

September 4, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 872 views

NRC initiative and ANS white papers get attention Two developments in the normally quiet week prior to the end of summer Labor Day weekend show the future of small nuclear reactors could be brighter than the past. There’s a new point person at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on small modular reactors (SMRs). Also, the... [read more]

Waves of new reactors get deals

June 16, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 700 views

Radical designs seek investors Several developers of new reactor designs reported progress this week during the semi-annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). The investor looking for something completely different that might make a difference to the nuclear energy industry has three new ideas to choose from this week.... [read more]

China's Nuclear Program Moving Fast Enough to Increase Interest in Advanced Fuel Cycles

May 20, 2010 by Rod Adams
with 447 views

For most of the past thirty years, there has been little incentive to develop nuclear energy systems that release more than a tiny portion of the potential energy found in uranium. The same lack of market incentive has nearly completely kept thorium out of the energy supply market. The perception was that we were doing just fine with... [read more]

Nuclear reactor scorecard

January 17, 2010 by Dan Yurman
with 162 views

Best prospects for actually building one Like the barker at a baseball game, you cannot tell the players without a program. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) periodically publish updates on the status of new nuclear builds in the U.S. At DOE a quarterly report mines information from agency files... [read more]

Bingaman Promises a Bill Requiring The Department of Energy To Develop and License Two Modular Reactor Designs

November 22, 2009 by Rod Adams
with 131 views

On November 16, 2009, at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) gave a speech titled Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World that included the following intriguing paragraph:“I plan to introduce a second bill, to complement Senator Udall’s bill. My new bill would require the Secretary of Energy... [read more]

Will the nuclear renaissance start with small reactors?

November 21, 2009 by Dan Yurman
with 325 views

A panel of vendors makes the case for it at the ANS winter meeting It is the burden of all senior executives when serving on panel discussions at industry conferences to walk a fine line between being interesting and engaging with a skeptical audience on one hand and on the other hawking the daylights out of their product with... [read more]

Update on Babcock and Wilcox mPower Modular Reactor

November 21, 2009 by Rod Adams
with 415 views

During the ANS Winter Meeting, I stopped by the B&W booth and had a chat with some of the booth representatives about the progress that the company is making on its mPowerTM modular reactor. We had a good conversation about steady progress and a project that is meeting its planned milestones. I received a promise for an updated set... [read more]

Taking the myths out of the debate on nuclear energy

November 18, 2009 by Dan Yurman
with 450 views

News media coverage and blog posts take different paths towards the same destination At the American Nuclear Society winter meeting taking place in Washington, DC, this week, two sessions highlighted efforts to remove the veil of confusion on three critical issues affecting the public debate on nuclear energy. These are that... [read more]

Hyperion reveals design details of its 25 MW reactor

November 17, 2009 by Dan Yurman
with 477 views

Firm kicks-off effort to prepare a submission to the NRC for safety reviewHyperion Power Generation, which is designing a small, 25 MWe, nuclear reactor, revealed design details Nov 18 (slides) about the company's product at the winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society taking place in Washington, DC. This is the first release of... [read more]

Remarks Delivered at the Opening Session of the American Nuclear Society Meeting

November 17, 2009 by Senator Lamar Alexander
with 270 views

I gave the following speech this morning (Monday, Nov. 16) at the 2009 Winter Meeting of the American Nuclear Society. Senator James Webb, who is co-sponsoring a nuclear bill with me, also made seconding remarks. Sen. Webb and I are here today to propose that the United States build its clean energy future upon the lessons of the... [read more]