U.S. Nuclear Industry Council's letter asks agency to remove restriction as it transforms into new entity BY JACQUELINE TOTH (Morning Consult) March 1, 2019 Nuclear industry advocates are pushing the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation to reconsider the development agency's restriction against funding nuclear generation projects as OPIC consolidates with a U.S. Agency for International Development entity to form a new agency with a bigger budget. In a letter sent Friday, the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council asked for the prohibition to be removed as OPIC transforms into the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a federal entity that will have a maximum contingent liability of $60 billion. The new corporation could be operational as early as Oct. 1, according to OPIC...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) new Clean Energy Talks series and a University of California San Diego-led Career Fair with scholars from the college's world renown Jacobs School of Engineering launched a three-day Advanced Reactor Summit VI in California.
Energy for Humanity, a key global advocate for solving environmental challenges and enabling universal access to modern energy services, will receive the 2018 Advanced Reactors Summit Trailblazer Award at an awards reception at the Summit VI in recognition of its work in espousing technology-inclusive solutions in pursuit of the "fastest, most cost-effective, most feasible outcomes for people and nature..."
Four leading national organizations are calling for "urgent action" on funding of crucial nuclear waste management program activities related to Yucca Mountain licensing review and consolidated interim storage before the current Congress adjourns...
Beyond Advanced Fission: The Nexus with Fusion Technologies will be a featured discussion with world class innovators and developers during the Advanced Reactors Summit VI symposium at UC San Diego on January 29-31. Both advanced nuclear fission and fusion technologies face common challenges for advanced and innovative technology development, with one of the biggest challenges being materials to accommodate extreme operating conditions from high temperatures to corrosion to tolerance of high levels of radiation induced damage. The panel will highlight fusion systems under development and common challenges and joint opportunities for addressing these challenges...
The new lead for the Nuclear Energy Agency's Nuclear Technology Development and Economics Division Dr. Sama Bilbao y León will headline the Advanced Reactors Summit VI at UC San Diego's "Global Perspectives" panel discussion at the January 29-31 symposium. The discussants will include leading international entities. NEA Director-General William D. Magwood, IV, provided the International Keynote at the AR Summit V at Texas A&M...
The Advanced Reactors Summit VI at the University of California San Diego has partnered with UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering to feature a Nuclear Energy Career Fair with leading students from one of the world's top programs for engineering, technology and computer sciences. The Career Fair includes the school's corresponding affiliate programs: Corporate Affiliates Program; Center for Energy Research; and Office of Research Affairs...
Lee Mason, a lead technologist for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), will provide a special Trailblazers address at the Lee Mason, a lead technologist for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), will provide a special Trailblazers address at the Advanced Reactors Summit VI & Showcase @ UC San Diego in January...
"Sustaining and Advancing Nuclear" in the Pacific Rim and "Renaissance Expectations and Opportunities in India" were the themes of the 21st Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC) and India Nuclear Business Platform held in San Francisco and Mumbai, respectively, in October...
Newly appointed President and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) Rumina Velshi and the recently U.S. Senate-confirmed Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner David Wright will provide a featured regulatory and safety keynote at a U.S.-Canada nuclear energy leadership summit on August 28-29 in Toronto...
The U.S. Nuclear Industry Council (USNIC) has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC). The DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy announced the new appointment this week of 13 new science, business and nuclear industry leaders to the advisory committee...
We welcome the President's continued recognition of the geostrategic importance of American nuclear energy leadership as well as the multi-faceted consequences inherent in the premature closings of nuclear plants that have been a cornerstone of U.S. energy and national security, economic prosperity and clean energy leadership. The sustained viability of the current nuclear energy fleet is also vital to advanced nuclear energy deployment and the vibrancy of the U.S. supply chain, which are trailblazing a new generation of commercial nuclear technology innovation and economic competitiveness...v
Given the importance of the NRC’s mission – and critical pending issues such as licensing modernization and reform, an in-progress small modular reactor design certification and ongoing new plant construction at Vogtle, among others – we wholeheartedly applaud the NRC’s return to a full complement of five Commissioners after an unprecedented three and a half-year hiatus. We congratulate the commissioners on their long-overdue and long-awaited Senate confirmations...
The U.S. Nuclear Industry Council (USNIC) praised the House Energy and Commerce Committee on advancing four bills "to address key challenges facing America's nuclear energy industry at a hearing this week on legislation addressing development, regulation and competitiveness of advanced nuclear energy technologies."
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.
