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Nuclear News Daily—4/14: DOD updates/ Hanford milestone / Position statements

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Apr 14, 2026

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In this issue: The DOD looks to Colorado and Montana for microreactors, ANS updates two position statements, a vitrification milestone at Hanford, Japan considers a far-flung island for waste storage, and more. Trivia Tuesday: It’s Tuesday, which mea...

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도입부: In this issue: The DOD looks to Colorado and Montana for microreactors, ANS updates two position statements, a vitrification milestone at Hanford, Japan considers a far-flung island for waste storage, and more.

Colorado, Montana bases selected for DOD microreactor program

The Department of the Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit within the Department of Defense have selected Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana to potentially site microreactors. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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The NRC

has streamlined environmental reviews by finalizing two rules under NEPA, enhancing efficiency while maintaining compliance. NRC

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The American Institute of Physics

reports the Trump administration has requested a 54% cut to the National Science Foundation’s funding, including a 75% reduction for the Engineering Directorate. AIP

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Holtec

is integral to New Jersey’s nuclear power plans. Patrick O’Brien, the company’s director of government affairs and communications, was recently appointed to the state’s nuclear task force. Jersey Vindicator

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Wendi Secrist

, executive director at the Idaho Workforce Development Council, talks about the road in building the workforce needed to deploy 400 GW of nuclear power by 2050. Utah News Dispatch

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Minamitorishima

, Japan’s easternmost island, will be surveyed for its suitability as a potential permanent nuclear waste disposal site. The island, which is less than a half square mile in size, has no permanent residents. Japan Times

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U.S. fusion start-up

Fuse announces that it has acquired land to build new radiation testing infrastructure in Albuquerque, N.M. PR Newswire

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ARC Clean Technology

has signed a term sheet with ICN to establish a commercial framework for the deployment of its ARC-100 reactor in Turkey and the broader region. NEI Magazine

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Illinois state law

originally designed to sustain the state’s nuclear fleet is now reducing energy costs for residents due to rising power prices and federal subsidies. Daily Herald

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Germany’s nuclear phaseout

faces scrutiny amid energy price hikes and geopolitical tensions. Though leaders call the exit irreversible, technical feasibility remains for restarting decommissioned plants. Politico

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Hanford places first vitrified waste canisters in disposal cell

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it has begun the permanent disposal of the first containers of vitrified low-level radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., marking a pivotal step in the nation’s radioactive tank waste cleanup mission. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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New scintillating composite leads to versatile and inexpensive neutron sensor

Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced the development of a new type of neutron sensor that works across a wide range of conditions, including in the presence of strong gamma radiation. The technology is called the Integrated Composite Optical Neutron Sensor (ICONS). Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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ANS revises Position Statements #35 and #47

The Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society, along with the ANS Public Policy Committee, recently approved revisions to Position Statement #35: Advanced Reactors and Position Statement #47: Management of Surplus U.S. Nuclear Material. Go deeper on Nuclear NewsWire.

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Nuclear trivia—reveal

The answer: First concrete for Watts Bar-2 was poured September 1, 1973. The reactor initially connected to the grid on June 3, 2016. The 15,616 days (or 42 years, 9 months, and 2 days) between these two milestones make Watts Bar-2, by a margin, the reactor with the longest construction period anywhere in the world, ever. Looking closer: The two units at Watts Bar have what the NRC calls “a unique licensing history and regulatory framework.” In 1970, the Tennessee Valley Authority ordered the plant to be built 50 miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tenn. It was slated to consist of two Westinghouse PWRs, each rated at 1,169 MWe. TVA received a construction permit for each unit in 1973 and aimed for completion in 1976 and 1977. The Watts Bar project was one in a series of plants ordered by the TVA to respond to a projected sharp increase in electricity demands. A TVA Power brochure from 1967 showed that residential electricity use had doubled from 1950 to 1954 and again from 1954 to 1960 and was projected to double once more from 1960 to 1968. However, that projection did not pan out as the TVA expected. The 1970s and 1980s did not continue the trend of enormously increasing demands seen in the 1950s and 1960s. Unexpectedly tepid demand, along with compounding regulatory and construction issues, threw many TVA projects into chaos over the next 20 years. Projects like Hartsville-B1 and -B2 were canceled while others like Watts Bar were left in limbo, with construction paused at times and at others massively slowed down. At the end of this long saga, Watts Bar-2 entered commercial operation in October 2016, simultaneously concluding the longest-ever construction of a reactor and marking the startup of the nation’s first new nuclear unit of the 21st century. Go deeper: Read more about the history of Watts Bar and the TVA’s 20th-century nuclear plans on Nuclear NewsWire.

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