What Did We Learn From Three Mile Island?
By Rod Adams Thirty-five years ago this week, a nuclear reactor located on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial core melt. On some levels, Continue Reading →
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Fukushima Three Years Later
By Will Davis In our collective memory, disturbing images played out on video around the world in the days following the apocalyptic Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami have somewhat receded, even if Continue Reading →
Don’t blame NRC uncertainty for San Onofre retirement
By Rod Adams The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station never threatened public health and safety. Unit 2 could have been restarted as soon as its scheduled outage was completed in Continue Reading →
Fukushima Two Years Later
by Will Davis At about a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 11, 2011, a gigantic and unprecedented earthquake struck just over 110 miles off the coast of Continue Reading →
ANS 2012 Winter Meeting – Fukushima Topical Sessions
By Will Davis The morning for us here in San Diego was filled with Opening Plenary Session events followed by an Attendee Luncheon in the Nuclear Technology Expo. (During the luncheon I had the Continue Reading →
The future of nuclear at #MOXChat
By Laura Scheele On September 11, the National Nuclear Security Administration (U.S. Department of Energy) hosted a public meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn., concerning its Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the disposition Continue Reading →
ANS to host ICAPP 2012 at annual conference
The American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference, to be held June 24–28 in Chicago, Ill., will feature an embedded International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2012), ANS President Continue Reading →