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The future of nuclear energy depends on the discovery of new materials. A researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory is using computer vision to identify the best candidate from a crowded field.
Ambient office = 66 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 125 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 126 nanosieverts per hour
U.S. Centrus Energy Corporation has just completed construction of a demonstration cascade of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and major supporting systems in Piketon, Ohio. This is a step towards a U.S. first-of-a-kind production of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) scheduled for the end of 2023.
Holtec, Sheffield Forgemasters team up on SMR forgings world-nuclear-news.org
Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 111 nanosieverts per hour
The U.S. agency in charge of producing key components for the U.S. nuclear arsenal has cleared the way for new equipment to be installed at a New Mexico Laboratory. The new equipment is part of a multibillion-dollar mission. However, nuclear watchdog groups say that the project is already behind schedule and budgets have ballooned.
Ambient office = 88 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 116 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 114 nanosieverts per hour
Deep Isolation, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Sheffield and NAC International are collaborating in a project to engineer canisters that meet U.K. regulatory requirements for long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in boreholes up to two miles underground.
