Monday at ANS Annual Meeting 2012

Today was the full official launch of the Annual Meeting, with the official Plenary Session in the large Riviera Ballroom, featuring several...

Sunday at ANS Annual Meeting 2012

Today's events, encapsulated! Many regular APR readers will recall the guest post made a while back by Meredith Angwin on the design, co...

ANS 2012 - Preliminaries

Today, I got on an airplane (which I have not done in over twenty years) and flew to Chicago for the American Nuclear Society's 2012 Ann...

110th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers

Atomic Power Review is proud to present the 110th edition of the Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers. This week's event comes immediately bef...

Augmented Inspection Team Meeting at San Onofre (Press Release)

Southern California Edison has provided the following press release, direct to Atomic Power Review, concerning this evening's public NRC...

Carnival 109 at ANS Nuclear Cafe now

The 109th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers is up right now over at the ANS Nuclear Cafe. Click here to access Carnival 109. Every week, rain or ...

Ohi reactor restart in Japan fully approved.

At roughly 11:37 AM Tokyo time, which was 10:37 PM here EDT, news broke in Japan that full governmental approval to restart two reactor plan...

Water Hammer - guest post by A. David Rossin

Background: A number of us have been discussing, for some months now, the chance that some of the water leakage at the Fukushima Daiichi pl...

Review: "Super-Fuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future"

When I first received my copy of Richard Martin's book " Super-Fuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future ," I was...

Westinghouse / India - Early Works Agreement (press release)

Following is a press release from Westinghouse direct to APR. -------------------- News Release Issued: June 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Westingho...

NuStart Energy Development LLC to disband June 30

Below is a direct press release from NuStart Energy Development LLC. -------------------- Nuclear Energy Public-Private Partnership Achieves...

DFRP Concept: A fresh approach to national waste storage

This week's events and discussion with industry insiders have together led to the paper I present below. I welcome comments on this and...

Spent Fuel Pool Containment: Guest Post

Recently, I wrote an article with help from many other people which was presented on the ANS Nuclear Cafe in order to refute misinformation ...

Further, but misguided, action on spent fuel repository

Last Thursday, APR ran an article ( click here ) on actions that indicate a real future for a national spent fuel repository; the House guar...

San Onofre 6/7 update from SoCal Ed

Below is a press release direct to APR courtesy Southern California Edison. -------------------- Southern California Edison Provides An Upda...

A fresh life for spent fuel storage?

News out of Washington today is most promising for those of us who have been seriously concerned about the issue of long term storage of hig...