Ames Brown has been appointed to serve as Energy Fuels Inc.'s ninth member of its board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday. Read More »

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is currently hosting their Nuclear Law Institute Program over a two week period, the group announced on Wednesday. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced on Wednesday that they would be holding a public meeting regarding regulatory changes for research and test reactors. Read More »

Unit 1 at the Virgil C. Summer (V.C. Summer) Nuclear Station will be brought offline on Friday in order to complete regular refueling and maintenance operations. Read More »

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the successful removal of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Uzbekistan on Tuesday.  Read More »

AREVA Inc. announced on Tuesday that their railway terminal has received 7.1 tons of used nuclear material that will be treated and recycled at their la Hague facility. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced Thursday that it has completed a safety evaluation of the South Texas Project's (STP) two proposed nuclear reactor units. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has launched a special inspection at the BWX Technologies fuel facility in Lynchburg, Virginia, due to a discovery that workers may have exceeded controls for criticality safety regarding a production line glovebox. Read More »

BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) was awarded approximately $34.5 million from the U.S. Naval Reactors Program for the manufacture of components for submarine and aircraft carrier nuclear reactors, the company announced Tuesday. Read More »

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will offer a cooperative agreement with General Atomics (GA) to domestically produce molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), it announced Wednesday. Read More »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will host The Division of Spent Fuel Management Regulatory Conference 2015, discussing issues relating to the management of spent nuclear fuel, at its North Bethesda, Maryland, headquarters Nov. 18-19. Read More »

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced Thursday that it has completed the Final Safety Evaluation Report for an Early Site Permit (ESP) application for a southern New Jersey location. Read More »

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently discussed nuclear technologies that would potentially benefit countries with expanding or new nuclear programs, allowing participants to gain information on new and emerging nuclear reactor technology and discussing the best ways of determining which would suit their program's needs. Read More »

The House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a hearing Thursday to examine the shipping of nuclear material within the U.S., with logistical aspects being brought in to question. Read More »

Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) announced last week that it is celebrating 40 years of operation, during which it has transported approximately 2,000 containers of nuclear material without an incident that resulted in radioactive spillage. Read More »

The European Atomic Forum (FORATOM) released a statement on Friday welcoming the European Commission (EC) plan to publish the "Illustrative Program for Nuclear Energy" by the end of 2015. Read More »

Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility are studying the transformative nature of hydrogen at high pressures. The lab said it has been hypothesized that the element can become metallic in extremely high-pressure environments. Read More »

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report on Monday that indicated Kazakhstan has become the leading uranium supplier to U.S. nuclear reactors. In 2014, the U.S. purchased approximately 12 million pounds of uranium from Kazakhstan. Read More »

AREVA TN said on Monday that it has struck a deal with Xcel Energy to provide dry-fuel storage-management services for the company's Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear generating plants in Red Wing and Monticello, Minnesota, respectively. Read More »

The National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia (BATAN) submitted the final report on its Nuclear Energy System Assessment (NESA) to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently during the 59th IAEA General Conference. Read More »