August 2021

Nuclear Reactors 940 - Sandia National Laboratory Enhances Its Melcor Nuclear Risk Monitoring Software For The NRC

     Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been expanding their severe accident computer modeling program, called Melcor, to work with different reactor geometries, fuel types and coolant systems. This work is intended to assist the U.S.

Radioactive Waste 814 - Bechtel Making Progress On Completing The Vitrification Plant At Hanford - Part 1 of 3 Parts

Part 1 of 3 Parts
     The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has announced that tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has finished construction of a pipeline that will transfer waste from Hanford’s buried waste tanks to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for vitrification, also known as immobilization in glass.

Nuclear Reactors 939 - China Begins Loading Fuel In A Demonstration High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Plant

     The National Nuclear Safety Administration of China issued an operating license on August 20th for the demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant (HTR-PM) at Shidaowan in the Shandong province of China. The next day, workers began loading the first spherical fuel elements into the first reactor at the plant.

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