DOE Selects Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Design for Versatile Test Reactor in Idaho
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a record of decision (ROD) to build a sodium-cooled fast test reactor at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). If appropriated by Congress, the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) would be the first fast spectrum test reactor to operate in the United States in ne
arly three decades.
The VTR project would help modernize U.S. nuclear energy research and development infrastructure and dramatically accelerate the technology development for current and next-generation reactors.
The U.S. will need both existing and new advanced reactors to meet the nation’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Reminiscences Of Reactor Development at Argonne National Laboratory
The story I will tell you today is a story of reactor development. As you know, most of the principal reactor development was done fifty or sixty years ago. But this story is not a story of long ago. The time these events took place was in the last years of the twentieth century. The place was Argonne National Laboratory, the first of the great national laboratories created after World War Two, and in the earliest days the one charged with the principal role in civilian nuclear power development in the US.
Soaring demand for electricity and coal shows why we need nuclear energy
Last week, BP released its annual Statistical Review of World Energy and the report shows, yet again, that electricity is the world’s most important and fastest-growing form of energy.
In 2021, global electricity generation grew by a record 1,577 terawatt-hours, an increase of 6.2 percent over 2020. For perspective, last year’s increase in electricity production was greater than the electricity output of France, Germany and Britain combined. The surge in electricity generation — nearly half of which happened in China — reflects the jump in demand for power as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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5 Key Takeaways from the Nuclear Energy FY2023 Budget Request
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/doe_fy2023.pdf">Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Budget request in April. The request includes $1.7 billion for the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) and is one of the highest asks ever for NE. This will allow the office to act swiftly on funding activities to support emerging technologies and improvements to the nuclear fuel cycle.
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