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January 31, 2023
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January 17, 2023
This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. Japan's government has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to “around spring or summer,' indicating a delay from the initial target of this spring, factoring into the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain public support.
Japan Delays Fukushima Plant Water Release
January 13, 2023
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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
January 31, 2023
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University Envisions Largest Research Dairy in U.S.
It would also be an experimental farm.
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U.S. Officials Eye Fuel Supply for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
About 20% of the nation's energy comes from nuclear power produced at just under 100 nuclear power plants.
December 15, 2021
The earth's shadow covers the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse, early Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. NASA and the nation's top federal nuclear research lab on Friday, Nov. 19, put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system.
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NASA Seeks Ideas for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
If successful, the next objective would be Mars.
November 22, 2021
In this Sept. 23, 2021, file photo, flames consume a house near Old Oregon Trail as the Fawn Fire burns north of Redding in Shasta County, Calif. U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in fighting increasingly destructive wildfires.
Product Development
Fire Retardant Could be 'Game-Changer' in Fighting Wildfires
It’s similar to the company’s red-dyed retardant dropped from aircraft.
October 6, 2021
Avionics mechanic Mike Luong inspects the control panel of Sikorsky Firehawk helicopter at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Sacramento Aviation Management Unit based at McClellan Airpark in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, July 23, 2021.
Product Development
New Technology Propels Efforts to Fight Western Wildfires
There have been 730 more wildfires in California so far this year than last.
July 26, 2021
This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Forestry shows a firefighting tanker making a retardant drop over the Grandview Fire near Sisters, Ore., Sunday, July 11, 2021. The wildfire doubled in size to 6.2 square miles (16 square kilometers) Monday, forcing evacuations in the area, while the state's biggest fire continued to burn out of control, with containment not expected until November.
Supply Chain
Fuel Shortage Could Ground Firefighting Aircraft
The worry is that multiple bases go dry simultaneously.
July 13, 2021
This Nov. 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Idaho National Laboratory, shows the Idaho National Laboratory Transient Reactor Test Facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Product Development
Military Wants to Build Mobile Microreactor
It wants to reduce reliance on local electric grids.
April 10, 2020
This Nov. 29, 2018, file photo shows the Transient Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, in eastern Idaho. The director of the Idaho National Laboratory says the U.S. Department of Energy and Idaho will need another supplemental agreement involving spent nuclear fuel so the lab can continue its mission past 2035. Mark Peters on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, told lawmakers on the House Environment, Energy and Technology Committee that the 1995 agreement between the Energy Department and Idaho could stop nuclear research.
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Nuclear Lab Needs 2035 Deadline Extended
The lab's nuclear research work is part of a strategy to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by generating carbon-free electricity with nuclear power.
February 7, 2020
In this May 11, 2015 file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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Idaho, Energy Department Ink Deal
The future is clearer for a test reactor that develops fuel for the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships.
February 5, 2020
This May 11, 2015 file photo shows nuclear waste stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Federal authorities want to store the partially melted core from one of the United States' worst nuclear power accidents for another 20 years in Idaho. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 it's considering a request from the U.S. Department of Energy to renew a license to store the radioactive debris from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The core of a reactor south of Harrisburg, Pa., partially melted in 1979.
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Nuclear Debris Stay in ID
The core from Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania partially melted in 1979, an event that changed the way Americans view nuclear technology.
September 17, 2019
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First Smaller Nuclear Reactors
The small modular reactors will usher 'in a new generation of smaller, safer, more flexible, less expensive, carbon-free nuclear energy.'
July 19, 2019
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Progress Made at Nuclear Waste Plant
They are removing high-level liquid radioactive waste stored in tanks above a massive aquifer.
June 6, 2019
In this Nov. 29, 2018 photo, J.R. Biggs stands in front of the Transient Test Reactor he manages about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, Idaho. The test reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory has been restarted to test nuclear fuels as the U.S. tries to revamp a fading nuclear power industry with safer fuel designs and a new generation of power plants.
Regulation
Test Reactor is Pivotal to US Nuclear Strategy
Officials face two main challenges: making plants economically competitive and changing public perception among some that nuclear power is unsafe.
December 17, 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy in documents made public this week says the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project that employs 650 workers will end next year.
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Nuclear Waste Processing Project Shut Down
The $500 million treatment plant handles waste like machine parts and tools that have been contaminated with plutonium.
December 10, 2018