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[NRC board to hear challenges to Dow's Long Mott application]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:12

NRC board to hear challenges to Dow's Long Mott application

https://www.ans.org/news/2026-02-20/article-7771/nrc-board-to-hear-challenges-to-dows-long-mott-application/

[Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel hears worries, but mostly support for Three Mile Island restart]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:10

Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel hears worries, but mostly support for Three Mile Island restart

https://penncapital-star.com/energy-environment/nuclear-regulatory-commission-panel-hears-worries-but-mostly-support-for-tmi-restart/

[ORNL, Kairos Power partner to advance deployment of next-gen nuclear energy]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:08

ORNL, Kairos Power partner to advance deployment of next-gen nuclear energy

https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-kairos-power-partner-advance-deployment-next-gen-nuclear-energy

[Scientists decry Trump's rush to loosen radiation exposure standards]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:06

Scientists decry Trump's rush to loosen radiation exposure standards

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-decry-trump-s-rush-loosen-radiation-exposure-standards

[National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 12:03

Long and technical and does not reach a conclusion only a recommendation to study further. Sounds a bit like the "Tooth Fairy Project" or the "Portsmouth Shipyard radiation exposure study."

National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69285-4

[Gov. Evers announces siting study for new Wisconsin nuclear]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 11:47

Gov. Evers announces siting study for new Wisconsin nuclear

https://www.ans.org/news/2026-02-20/article-7773/gov-evers-announces-siting-study-for-new-wisconsin-nuclear/

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Nuke News / Re: US particle accelerators t...

Last post by Marlin - Today at 11:45

"The technology can effectively "burn" the most hazardous components."  That's such an exaggeration of what high neutron flux is. It's just concentrated neutrons.  It's still neutrons hitting a nucleus and splitting or reordering.

I disagree and the people with the big brains and big degrees seem to disagree and say you can transmute the longer-lived isotopes. Happens in commercial reactors that produce plutonium then burn it to produce a fraction of the plants power.

"Instead of having a lifetime of 100,000 years in storage, for example, you can shorten the storage years down to 300," said Rongli Geng, head of SRF Science & Technology at Jefferson Lab and principal investigator for both projects."

https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-fuel/plutonium/plutonium-pwr/

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Last post by Mounder - Today at 10:54

"The technology can effectively "burn" the most hazardous components."  That's such an exaggeration of what high neutron flux is. It's just concentrated neutrons.  It's still neutrons hitting a nucleus and splitting or reordering.

[US unveils 'world's first' irradiated molten salt research facility for next-gen reactors]

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Last post by Marlin - Today at 10:46

US unveils 'world's first' irradiated molten salt research facility for next-gen reactors

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-unveils-world-s-first-irradiated-molten-salt-research-facility-for-next-gen-reactors/ar-AA1WKCpr

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Nuke News / Re: US particle accelerators t...

Last post by Marlin - Yesterday at 09:52

you can't just hit radioactive material with a particle accelerator and magically lower decay times (and you'll be running it forever and getting little done). You can split atoms with it.  It says there's a lot of heat produced. I'm sure there is a lot of energy released. It also uses a ton of electrical power. What it doesn't say in the article is that they're going to hit "fissionable elements" with it. Maybe they'll pick and choose some smaller activated stuff on the periodic chart.

It makes some sense to me that a high neutron flux would burn transuranics lowering half-life. They are still working on it.