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ORNL nuclear engineer selected for national reactor development position

Posted at 3:56 pm July 26, 2017
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has selected ORNL’s Lou Qualls to serve as national technical director for molten salt reactors. (Photo courtesy DOE/ORNL)

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has selected ORNL’s Lou Qualls to serve as national technical director for molten salt reactors. (Photo courtesy DOE/ORNL)

 

By Jason Ellis, ORNL Communications

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has selected Lou Qualls of Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the national technical director for molten salt reactors, or MSRs. In his new role, Qualls—a nuclear engineer who joined ORNL in 1988—will serve as a liaison among the nuclear industry, the national laboratory system, and DOE in defining the future of MSR technology in the United States.

The new position was created in response to the private sector’s growing interest in MSRs as the next generation of power reactors. A significant number of nuclear plants are expected to close beginning in 2030, with most closed by 2045, as their operating licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission expire. Various companies are pursuing new reactor designs to replace this loss of nuclear energy, which is the nation’s largest source of carbon-free energy and represents approximately one-fifth of electricity generated in the United States.

“There are about 10 U.S. companies developing MSR designs in hopes of seeing their technologies make it onto the grid,” Qualls said. “My job is to work with these vendors and DOE to understand how each design could fit into the energy market and to identify hurdles that could prevent these reactors from ever delivering electricity. It’s a positive step that shows the level of excitement from industry, DOE, and the national labs.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: advanced reactor designs, advanced reactor technologies, DOE, Jason Ellis, Lou Qualls, Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, molten salt reactors, MSRs, nuclear industry, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Nuclear Energy, ORNL, power reactors, U.S. Department of Energy

US, international partners remove last highly enriched uranium from Vietnam

Posted at 9:21 am July 11, 2013
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Vietnam HEU Removal

A worker prepares a special container carrying highly enriched uranium before loading onto a cargo plane for repatriation to Russia. (Photo courtesy NNSA)

Official in the United States, Vietnam, and Russia announced this month that they have removed 11 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, or HEU, from the Dalat Nuclear Research Institute in Dalat, Vietnam.

“With this shipment, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam became the eleventh country from which all HEU has been removed since President Obama’s 2009 announcement in Prague of an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world,” the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration said in a press release. “The U.S. will work with our international partners to remove the remaining HEU from another country by the end of 2013 in support of this global effort and the goals of the Nuclear Security Summits.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: National Nuclear Security Administration, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Dalat, Dalat Nuclear Research Institute, Ernest Moniz, Federal State Atomic Energy Corporation, Global Threat Reduction Initiative, GTRI, HEU, highly enriched uranium, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, LEU, low enriched uranium, Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, nuclear security, nuclear weapon, power reactors, President Obama, ROSATOM, Russia, Russian Federation, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, U.S. Department of Energy, United States, Vietnam

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