The board of directors of South Carolina’s state-owned utility Santee Cooper voted on Friday to approve the proposal from Brookfield Asset Management to complete two new AP1000 power reactors at the V.C. Summer site in Jenkinsville, S.C. Read more on Nuclear NewsWire: (fb)

Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-­term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts including: • Commercial enrichment initiatives • Material recovery at the Savannah River Site • The Accident Tolerant Fuel program “By providing essential HALEU supplies while the commercial HALEU supply chain is being established, national labs ensure that the nuclear industry can innovate and advance, ultimately leading to an abundant supply of affordable and reliable energy,” said Josh Jarrell, director of INL’s Fuel Cycle Science and Technology Division. Read Donna Kemp Spangler’s full feature on Nuclear NewsWire: (fb)