February 2023

Nuclear Reactors 1132 - Scientists At The Argonne National Laboratory Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Find New Materials For Advanced Reactor Designs - Part 2 of 2 Parts

Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
     The fleeting nature of defects during nuclear experiments explains why scientists have usually captured only a smattering of data points along important lines of measure.

Nuclear Reactors 1131 - Scientists At The Argonne National Laboratory Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Find New Materials For Advanced Reactor Designs - Part 1 of 2 Parts

Part 1 of 2 Parts
     The future of nuclear energy depends on the discovery of new materials. A researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory is using computer vision to identify the best candidate from a crowded field.

Nuclear Reactors 1130 - Centrus Energy Corporation Is Working On The Production Of HALEU Nuclear Fuel

      U.S. Centrus Energy Corporation has just completed construction of a demonstration cascade of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and major supporting systems in Piketon, Ohio. This is a step towards a U.S. first-of-a-kind production of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) scheduled for the end of 2023.

Nuclear Weapons 811 - Los Alamos National Laboratory Is Installing New Equipment To Produce Plutonium Cores

      The U.S. agency in charge of producing key components for the U.S. nuclear arsenal has cleared the way for new equipment to be installed at a New Mexico Laboratory. The new equipment is part of a multibillion-dollar mission. However, nuclear watchdog groups say that the project is already behind schedule and budgets have ballooned.

Radioactive Waste 891 - Deep Isolation Developing Canisters For Deep Borehole Nuclear Waste Storage

      Deep Isolation, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, the University of Sheffield and NAC International are collaborating in a project to engineer canisters that meet U.K. regulatory requirements for long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in boreholes up to two miles underground.

Astroscale Is Developing A Space Junk Removal System

     Space junk is a very real problem. It might seem implausible that the space around the Earth is actually getting too cluttered with junk, but, nonetheless, it is true. There are thousands of tons of old spacecraft, defunct satellites, and bits and pieces of manmade trash orbiting our planet. That material poses a some very real risks to future missions.

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