A series of prominent speakers at a May 15-16, 2018 Ready4Nuclear workshop with a capacity crowd of key Western U.S. and Canadian suppliers expressed optimism regarding emerging advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMR) deployments at the Idaho National Laboratory and the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories...
250 global nuclear energy stakeholders from over 90 companies gathered in Shanghai in May for the 6th annual Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP), which featured 60 speakers including China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation; Japan's Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry; UAE's Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation; and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy...
The overwhelming, bipartisan support for long overdue tangible action on the Yucca Mountain national repository and consolidated storage is good news for nuclear energy, American taxpayers and the 121 communities in 39 states with stranded commercial spent fuel or defense waste in need of a final disposal solution...
Four leading nuclear energy organizations led by the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition have urged U.S. House of Representatives leadership to ensure that H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018, receives strong, bipartisan support in upcoming floor consideration. Letter cosignatories include the American Nuclear Society, Decommissioning Plant Coalition and the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council.
Nuclear innovation and Millennial perspectives were featured topics at a Millennial Nuclear Caucus presented jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Atomics (GA) in San Diego on April 20...
The fourth in a series of Ready4Nuclear regional nuclear suppliers workshops is slated for May 15-16, 2018 in Idaho Falls, home to the Idaho National Laboratory and the planned NuScale Power advanced nuclear Small Modular Reactor (SMR). The workshop’s focus is key Western U.S. and Canadian suppliers and regional supply-chains...
The Advanced Reactors Summit V & Showcase has honored Terrestrial Energy with the Summit’s inaugural Trailblazer Special Achievement Award at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at the Texas A&M campus in College Station...
Three key U.S. and global leaders in the advanced nuclear policy, regulatory and international spheres will be keynoters at the Advanced Reactors Summit V and Showcase slated for February 20-22 at Texas A&M...
State of Georgia Public Utility Commission official Tim Echols will be honored with the Advanced Reactors Summit's Trailblazer Award at a reception at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, February 21, at the Texas A&M campus in College Station...
The U.S. nuclear industry provided four key recommendations to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailing how it can streamline licensing of advanced reactors to ensure American leadership in nuclear energy...
Citing growing concern over lack of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) progress in re-establishing the Nation's civilian nuclear waste management program, the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council outlined executive action options to re-establish the statutorily established Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), nominating a director and using an estimated $10 million in carryover funding to make preparations to restart the Yucca Mountain licensing process...
Leading representatives from international, U.S. government, industry and academic enterprises will focus on spent fuel management globally at the 33rd Spent Fuel Management Seminar on January 23-25 presented by the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) in partnership with the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council...
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman-Emeritus and current Commissioner Stephen Burns will provide a Special Address on the agency's initiatives to the Advanced Reactors Technical Summit and Trailblazers Showcase at Texas A&M on February 20-22...
The U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) was one of 18 U.S. industry, National Laboratory and academic representatives named to present at a two-day Civil Nuclear Energy Roundtable in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 17-18...
The Chief Regulatory Operations Officer for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Ramzi Jammal will present on the Commission's advanced reactors initiatives at the Advanced Reactors Summit V at Texas A&M on February 20-22, 2018. Jammal, who also serves as the Commission's Executive Vice President and Chief Regulatory Operations Officer, will be a featured discussant on a licensing reform and modernization forum that also includes former NRC Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield, who heads the USNIC's Advanced Reactors Task Force, as well as NRC's Director of Advanced Reactors John Monninger...
The Millennials for Nuclear and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy will hold a "Millennial Nuclear Caucus" as part of the Advanced Reactors Summit V and Technology Trailblazers Showcase at Texas A&M on February 20-22, 2018.
The U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) was among a group of 30 companies and organizations participating in the North American Energy Ministers Interactive Discussion with the Private Sector, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy on November 14, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The goal of the Discussion was to discuss the future of North American energy as a driver of economic and energy security in the Western Hemisphere and identify opportunities to strengthen domestic and collective energy security and economic prosperity through trilateral cooperation with Canada and Mexico...
The U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) has once again been named the U.S. Pavilion lead for the 6th edition of Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP) which will be held at The Marriott Shanghai, China, 9-10 May 2018. The USA pavilion will showcase American companies at ANBP 2018.
The U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council joined a panel of clean energy proponents at a November discussion on "whether China is already winning the clean energy race against the U.S. and, if so, what can be done here to catch-up."
The Feb. 20-22, 2018, Advanced Reactors Summit V & Showcase at Texas A&M will feature an inaugural Nuclear Energy Career Fair with 100 top students from the Texas A&M University Department of Nuclear Engineering...
Calling U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposed Grid Reliability and Resilience Pricing Rule “a logical first step”, the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council urged “final, timely action” by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enact the measure...
Meeting the challenge of human capital for the future of U.S. nuclear energy is the focus of a discussion series being inaugurated by the Millennials for Nuclear (M4N) with a kick-off planned in conjunction with a U.S. Department of Energy-organized Millennials Day on October 19 in Washington DC...
