SHALE Magazine

Modernizing the Atom: NRC Finalizes Part 53 Licensing Framework

For decades, the American nuclear industry has been running a high-tech race on a track built in the middle of the last ...

U.S. To Revamp Nuclear Reactor Licensing In First Overhaul Since 1956

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will make its first significant revisions since 1956 to reactor licensing standards to ...
Brattleboro Reformer

11 at VY attain operator standards

BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont Yankee announced last week that 11 of its employees have passed the tests necessary to serve as control room operators or have been upgraded to senior reactor operators. After ...
POWER Magazine

ACU Secures NRC Permit to Build Research Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) a construction permit to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus in ...