If you’re watching today’s opening ceremony in Paris, there’s a good chance it’s powered by nuclear. 🇫🇷 France gets nearly 65% of its total power from 56 nuclear reactors. #Olympics2024
Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Government Administration
Washington, District of Columbia 80,303 followers
Advancing new technologies to help meet future clean energy goals with nuclear energy ⚛️.
About us
The Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) mission is to advance nuclear power to meet the nation's energy, environmental, and national security needs. Under the guidance of three research objectives, NE resolves barriers to technical, cost, safety, security, and proliferation resistance through early-stage research, development, and demonstration to: -Enhance the long-term viability and competitiveness of the existing U.S. reactor fleet. -Develop an advanced reactor pipeline. -Implement and maintain national strategic fuel cycle and supply chain infrastructure.
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https://www.energy.gov/ne/office-nuclear-energy
External link for Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
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- Government Administration
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Founded
- 1977
- Specialties
- Energy policy, research and development, science, nuclear energy
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JUST ADD SALT 🧂: Terrestrial Energy is developing this advanced reactor that uses molten salt as both a coolant and a fuel to provide high heat at lower pressures. The heat can be used directly at industrial facilities or for clean power generation using standard low-enriched uranium. Terrestrial Energy is one of two companies receiving GAIN - Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear vouchers to advance their technologies. They will partner with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to analyze the fuel salt used in its Integral Molten Salt Reactor to better understand how it changes in response to temperature during everyday operation. GAIN vouchers provide funding to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories to help businesses overcome critical technological and commercialization challenges. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4csAGex
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JUST SPLIT IT: Xcel Energy plans to demonstrate clean hydrogen production this year using high-temperature electrolysis at its Prairie Island nuclear plant. The high temperature electrolyzers will use heat and electricity to split water into pure hydrogen and oxygen. The data will then be used to help scale up this first-of-a-kind project. It's one of three hydrogen demonstration projects the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is supporting at nuclear plants to help lower the cost and scale up the production of clean hydrogen in the U.S. 📸: Xcel Energy
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NUCLEAR 101: Microreactors are factory-built, plug-and-play reactors. ➡️ They can be used to power military bases; disaster recovery efforts or remote locations where traditional infrastructure doesn’t exist. ➡️ These mini reactors can provide between 1-20 megawatts of thermal energy used directly as heat or converted to electric power. ➡️ They fit on the back of a semi-truck and will not require a large number of people to operate them. ➡️ Microreactors can integrate seamlessly into distributed grids to complement renewable power and are expected to run continuously for about 10 years without refueling. ➡️ Once the core is spent, they can be exchanged for a new one. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2BwsYQR
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SHAKING THINGS UP: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just completed seismic testing at UC San Diego on a pair of full-scale dry storage systems for spent nuclear fuel. The data will be used to better understand the potential impacts earthquakes have on fuel that is safely and securely stored at more than 70 reactors sites in the U.S. ➡️: https://bit.ly/4bRrU9j
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NUCLEAR 101: The sodium-cooled fast reactor uses liquid metal (sodium) as a coolant instead of water that is typically used in U.S. commercial power plants. This allows the coolant to operate at higher temperatures and lower pressures than current reactors—improving the efficiency of the system. SFRs use fast moving neutrons that could allow them to operate on both fissile material and used fuel from current reactors to produce electricity.
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What's this coal-to-nuclear thing all about? This guidebook is an excellent place to start for communities who are considering replacing a retired or retiring coal plant with nuclear power. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eRJ_inEz
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: #OnThisDay in 1955, Arco, Idaho became the world's first community to have all its electrical power provided by nuclear energy. The power was generated by Argonne National Laboratory ’s BORAX III reactor.
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Meet Idaho National Laboratory's new supercomputer: Bitterroot 👋 Bitterroot is a Dell-based, CTS-2 system and offers more than 43,000 processing cores with 3 petaflops of performance. It’s also the first system supported by our Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) to offer high-bandwidth memory, which speeds up computations in applications that were previously slowed down by bandwidth limitations. Bitterroot was brought online to help the lab keep pace with the growing demand for modeling and simulation applications and can be accessed through NSUF to support the nation’s nuclear energy-related research projects at no cost to the user.
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