Ambient office = 100 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 93 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 93 nanosieverts per hour

Avocado from Central Market = 108 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 119 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 111 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 110 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 84 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 85 nanosieverts per hour

Roma tomato from Central Market = 73 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 124 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 111 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 114 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 126 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 130 nanosieverts per hour

Red bell pepper from Central Market = 85 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 121 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 106 nanosieverts per hour

Dover Sole from Central = 104 nanosieverts per hour

     NuScale Power Corporation just announced the opening of the first privately-funded NuScale Energy Exploration Center (E2 Center) at Seoul National University (SNU) in partnership with GS Energy Corporation, Doosan Enerbility and Samsung C&T corporation.
     The E2 Center offers participants a hands-on opportunity to apply nuclear science and engineering principles through simulated, real-word nuclear power plant operating scenarios. The E2 Center employs state of the art computer modeling to simulate a NuScale 924 megawatt VOYGR-12 small modular reactor (SMR) plant powered by twelve NuScale Power Modules.
     NuScale said, “As the first E2 Centre in Asia, the educational training hub serves as a workforce development tool for South Korea to develop the next generation of advanced nuclear experts, technologists, and operators, positioning the country to become a regional leader of SMR deployment in Asia.”
     José Reyes is the NuScale Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. He said, “NuScale’s groundbreaking SMRs are years ahead of the global competition as the only advanced nuclear technology with US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval, and today’s opening of the E2 Centre allows South Korea to advance its position as a global leader in clean energy. With the support of our partners GS Energy, Doosan, Samsung C&T, and Seoul National University, we are excited to reach this new milestone in our collaboration to advance the shared goal of global decarbonization.”
     Professor Eung Soo Kim is the Head of SNU’s Department of Nuclear Engineering. He said, “The E2 Centre provides our students with an unrivaled opportunity to engage in hands-on SMR operations, cultivating the expertise essential for leading the global clean energy transition. We are proud to be the first institution in Asia to integrate NuScale’s state-of-the-art simulation technology into our curriculum.”
     The first center opened at Oregon State University in November 2020. It was followed by a second center at the University of Idaho at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies in August 2021. The third center is located at Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station. It opened in November of 2021. The fourth center opened in October of 2022 at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. In May of this year, the first E2 Center outside the U.S. opened at the University of Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
     The VOYGR nuclear power plants are based on the NuScale Power Module (NPM). It is a pressurized water reactor with all the components for steam generation and heat exchange incorporated into a single seventy-seven megawatt reactor. NuScale offers a twelve-module VOYGR-12 power plant which is able to generate nine hundred and twenty-four megawatts. It also offers the three hundred and eight megawatt four-module VOYGR-4 as well as the four hundred and sixty-two megawatt VOYGR-6. Other configurations are available based on customer needs.
     Doosan Enerbility was formerly named Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction. In 2019, it signed a business collaboration agreement with NuScale for the supply of NuScale Power Modules and other equipment. Together with Korean financial investors, Doosan has made an equity investment of almost one hundred and four million dollars in NuScale.
     In May of this year, private power generation company GS Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uljin County in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The purpose of the MoU is to consider the use of NuScale Power’s SMR technology to provide heat and power to the planned Uljin Nuclear Hydrogen National Industrial Complex. 
     A pilot six-module plant had been planned to be built near Idaho Falls in the U.S. It was intended for the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS)-led Carbon Free Power Project. It was expected to be operational by 20320. However, UAMPS and NuScale announced last week that they had mutually agreed to terminate the project.

Ambient office = 109 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 97 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 95 nanosieverts per hour

Garlic bulb from Central Market = 146 nanosieverts per hour

Tap water = 107 nanosieverts per hour

Filter water = 595 nanosieverts per hour

     Centrus Energy Corp. (formerly USEC Inc.) is an American company that supplies nuclear fuel for use in nuclear power plants and works to develop and deploy advanced centrifuge technology to produce enriched uranium for commercial and government uses, including for national security. The American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon, Ohio, was constructed by Centrus on the same site as other Centrus facilities. Contracts for delivery of high-assay, low-enriched (HALEU) were signed with the U.S. Department of Energy.
     The ACP has made its first delivery of HALEU to the DoE. This marks the end of the first phase of a cost-share contract that was signed in 2022. The ACP is the first new U.S.-owned uranium enrichment plant using U.S. technology to begin production since 1954. The plant began enrichment operations in October.
     HALEU is uranium enriched between five percent and twenty percent uranium-235. It will be used in the advanced nuclear fuel required for most of the next generation reactor designs that are currently under development. Nine advanced reactor designs have been approved under the Energy Department’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The DoE has been supporting activities to ensure the availability of the material for those reactors when needed. They also are assisting in the development of a domestic HALEU supply chain.
     Daniel Poneman is the President and CEO of Centrus which owns the ACP. He said, “Centrus is proud to be pioneering American HALEU production, with our first delivery of the fuel that is urgently needed to support the demonstration and commercialization of advanced reactors. This critical milestone is essential to meeting the Department’s near-term HALEU needs, while laying the groundwork for the full restoration of America’s lost domestic uranium enrichment capacity.”
     Construction of the sixteen-centrifuge demonstration cascade plant began in 2019. This work was carried out under a contract with the DoE. The two-phase contract awarded to Centrus last year included cost-shared funding to finish the cascade, complete final regulatory steps, and begin operating the cascade. The goal was to produce up to forty-four pounds of HALEU by the end of this year. The first phase of the contract called for Centrus and the DoE to each contribute about thirty million dollars to the overall cost of sixty million dollars.
     The delivery by Centrus of more than forty-four pounds of HALEU to the DoE means that phase one of the contract has now been completed. Centrus can now move ahead with the second phase which consists of a full year of HALEU production which will produce one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four pounds of nuclear fuel.
     Centrus says that with sufficient funding and offtake commitments, it could expand production. A full-scale cascade of one hundred and twenty centrifuges could be constructed in forty-two months following the securing of funding. It should be able to produce about thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of HALEU per year. More cascades of centrifuges could be added after that. Centrus says that construction and operation of such a plant would support thousands of direct and indirect jobs across a nationwide manufacturing supply chain.