Last Energy PWR-5 Clears DOE Safety Analysis
Last Energy announced on October 7 that the U.S. Department of Energy approved the final Documented Safety Analysis for the company’s PWR-5 pilot reactor at Texas A&M–RELLIS. The Last Energy PWR-5 approval moves the project into DOE’s readiness review, the last step before the department could authorize startup activities involving criticality and reactor operations.
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Buried under an Indiana campus, a 10-microwave reactor from the early sixties
The room is deep underground, beneath a university building in Indiana, humming with the low drone of a server farm. Inside, a reactor has been running since the early sixties.
No dials. No knobs. No analog gauges of any kind.
Instead: keyboards, computer screens, ethernet cables, the complete nervous system of a machine that is also, formally, a licensed nuclear reactor.
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Atomic Canyon is rolling out an AI assistant developed with major industry groups to help nuclear plant workers make better and faster use of operating records and technical knowledge.
Office of Nuclear Energy Celebrates Fifth Advanced Reactor Criticality
From the Office of Nuclear Energy
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor successfully achieved criticality, becoming the fifth DOE-authorized reactor to go critical this summer.
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Oklo’s test reactor will inform the development of a future commercial variant designed to produce isotopes for medicine, advanced manufacturing, scientific research, space exploration, and national security needs.
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