Today, on Nuclear Newswire, Constellation's Steve Hesse, Jerry Segner, Mark Samselski, and Scott Schumacher talk about the ongoing implementation of a safety-related digital instrumentation and control modernization project at Limerick nuclear power plant. Read more: www.ans.org/news/article...

Limerick’s digital leap: Sustainability through modernization

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Earlier this week, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrissey announced that his state has been selected as a finalist for the DOE's Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses program. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-09...

West Virginia joins the ranks of NLIC finalists

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Iowa updates: NextEra Energy has secured a DOE loan of up to $1.9 billion for its restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant, and the state’s Nuclear Energy Task Force issued a final report on the feasibility of new nuclear projects. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-09...

DOE loan, task force report spur nuclear momentum in Iowa

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing a new rule that addresses two different aspects of agency oversight: protecting drinking water and extending decommissioning timelines. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-09...

This past January, Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey. Read the full feature on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/article...

Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States

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The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has issued Type One Energy the first license to operate a commercial fusion machine in the state. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-09...

Tennessee issues commercial fusion license to Type One Energy for Bull Run site

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Researchers at Argonne have conducted experimental tests on how particles from paved surfaces become suspended from activities such as walking, driving, and vacuuming. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-09...

ANL dust study aims to improve emergency response models

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The Palisades nuclear power plant has drawn closer to restart, as plant staff began the process of loading fuel into the reactor vessel on Sunday morning. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Fuel loading process begins at Palisades

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Last week the Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva began drilling holes for final disposal at the Onkalo deep geological repository, near the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Posiva begins drilling disposal holes at Finland’s Onkalo repository

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Closure of Diablo Canyon means Californians will face higher power bills, further strain on an already fragile grid, and more emissions. American Nuclear Society joins bipartisan calls to keep the plant running until 2045: https://www.ans.org/file/25209/1/ANS%2024%20Aug%202026%20Diablo%20Canyon.pdf

The DOE established the Center for Used Fuel Research to address challenges related to the long-term storage and transport of used nuclear fuel. Read Cory Hatch's full feature on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

First American Nuclear has announced its plan to make its own reactor fuel. The company has filed a regulatory engagement plan with the NRC for the construction of a Category II HALEU deconversion and fuel fabrication facility. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

FANCO informs NRC of its intent to build HALEU fuel fabrication facility

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The NRC has issued an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact to Disa Technologies for company’s use of its HPSA technology to remediate abandoned uranium mine waste at the Mary Ann site in Montrose County, Colo. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Researchers at INL and MIT have conducted a study of irradiated U-10Zr—uranium alloyed with 10 percent zirconium—across radial regions, providing insights into how the material swells, transfers heat, and interacts with the fuel cladding. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Romania has taken its last reactor off line due to the low water levels of the Danube River, in what is the latest example of how the heat wave in Europe has impacted the temperatures needed to operate nuclear plants across the continent. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Cernavoda, Paks, Gravelines plants suffer as European heat wave impacts water sources

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The NRC has proposed a change to how it will approach standards for radiation protections, including the elimination of ALARA. The proposal was published on July 15, and on Monday, the agency held a public meeting on the topic. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

A pair of bills were introduced earlier this month in Congress that could modernize the licensing process for uranium enrichment facilities and repeal the law that designated Yucca Mountain as the country’s nuclear waste repository. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Centrus Energy will be providing X-energy with enrichment services for LEU and HALEU to support X-energy’s planned deployments of Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO-X fuel, according to the terms of a new contract signed by the companies. Read more: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Nuclear News has analyzed the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/article...

The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners

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Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor became the fifth Department of Energy–authorized reactor to achieve criticality under the agency’s authorization process, it was announced earlier today. Read the full story on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality

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Today, we are taking a close look at what Oklahoma and Louisiana offer in terms of nuclear sectors that could support new fuel cycle projects—in relation to their recent selection for the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus program. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

A closer look at the initial NLIC selections—Part 1

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Last week, Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that its ZiaCore microreactor was brought to zero-power criticality at high temperatures in April through May of this year during four weeks of experiments on the Deimos test bed. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-08...

LANL’s ZiaCore microreactor reaches criticality

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Last week, ARC Clean Technology announced that it has entered into a Strategic Partnership Project to collaborate with INL on the design, demonstration, and first deployment of the company’s ARC-100, a 100-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

ARC partners with INL for first reactor deployment

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With more than six decades as a top-ranked program, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the UW–Madison is hardly slowing down. In fact, NEEP is continuing to grow and develop its faculty and scope. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/article...

UW-Madison: A Midwestern nucleus of fission and fusion

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The NRC recently held a public meeting with FEMA on emergency preparedness in regard to the restart of the Crane nuclear power plant. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

The public had a rare opportunity Tuesday morning when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission gathered leaders from several organizations to share updates on their respective high-profile new nuclear projects and initiatives. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pacific Fusion have surpassed 3,000 “shots” with Sirius, a four-stage prototype impedance-matched Marx generator of the type that can provide pulsed power to an inertial confinement fusion machine. Read more: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

LLNL and Pacific Fusion achieve 3,000-shot milestone with Sirius pulsed-power prototype

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Last week, the NRC held public meetings discussing the details on three proposed rules relating to security requirements, low-level radioactive waste disposal requirements, and fuel cycle and materials licensing. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

Today, on Nuclear Newswire, Stephanie Morrow and Niav Hughes Green, both of whom are human factors psychologists in the NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, write about how recent changes in the nuclear industry are influencing the field of human factors: www.ans.org/news/article...

The human factor in licensing and operating the next generation of nuclear plants

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Westinghouse has cleared a hurdle in its quest to renew and update the standard DC for the AP1000 with the NRC's approval of an exemption from scheduling requirements that limit when an applicant can apply for a DC renewal. Read more on Nuclear Newswire: www.ans.org/news/2026-07...

NRC approves Westinghouse exemption request for AP1000 DC

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