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Webinar With NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko A Total Success

October 7, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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We had over 50 people register for the webinar and over 40 of them were still with us at the 90 minute mark. Another 15 people listened in on an 800 phone line.Jaczko and I sat at at the corner of a table to facilitate the video angle (1 camera). The NRC will post a video and podcast of the session on its webiste. [read more]

Finding The Future of Fission After Fukushima

June 17, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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Young people entering the nuclear energy field retain their idealism about it Let’s say that here in June 2011 you are 22 years old and have just graduated from a four-year nuclear engineering program with your B.S. in hand and are looking at the future of the industry. What you want is a job and respect for the work you do. What you see... [read more]

Joe Colvin Testifies On Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Legislation

June 7, 2011 by Joseph Koblich
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On Tuesday, June 7, ANS President Joe Colvin testifies about legislation pertaining to Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) before the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.  The committee hearing  begins at 10:00 am Eastern Time, and a live webcast is available via the committee’s Web site (see “Live Webcast” on the... [read more]

ANS Student Members Express Excitement About Nuclear Technologies

April 19, 2011 by Rod Adams
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From April 14-16, I spent time with some amazing people getting reenergized about nuclear energy technologies. The occasion was the American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2011 Student Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, right in the heart of the continuing nuclear energy revival movement in the United States. More than 600 students from as far away... [read more]

Pace of NRC license reviews aired at ANS

June 18, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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The nuclear industry is not happy about some aspects of the process One of the more significant misconceptions about licensing a new nuclear power plant is that if you throw more money at the Nuclear Regulatoy Agency (NRC), it will speed up the approval process for new reactor projects and designs. This turns out to be wrong. The... [read more]

Nuclear Bloggers achieve critical mass at ANS Atlanta

June 18, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Four experienced hands assess the new mediaThere was a peak experience at the annual conference of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) this week (June 14-18, 2009).  In a first-of-a-kind meeting Rod Adams from Atomic Insights, John Wheeler from This Week in Nuclear, Kirk Sorensen from Energy from Thorium, and Dan Yurman from Idaho... [read more]

Blogsphere meet up at ANS Atlanta

June 13, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Live blogging from ANS Atlanta June 15-18 Thanks to support from the EnergyCollective, I will be live blogging at their website about the American Nuclear Society (ANS) annual meeting and what's happening there, twice a day, Monday June 15 through Thursday June 18. ANS Twitter feed  The ANS hash mark for the annual conference... [read more]