Nuclear Power

Workshop participants use an online decision-making tool during a session led by Steve Krahn. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Thirty government, academic and industry experts in nuclear fuel cycle technology just wrapped up the fourth annual EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Assessment Workshop, held Tuesday and… Read More

Ph.D. students Bethany (Smith) Burkhardt, left, and Lyndsey Fyffe are aiding with decommissioning in the Hanford nuclear site in the state of Washington. (Photo: U.S. Department of Energy) Across the country, schools of engineering devote their researchers to building a better nuclear power plant. Vanderbilt University’s engineers… Read More

The team studying ways to help nuclear power plant operators improve work performance and safety includes, from left, Julie Adams, Ph.D., Shilo Anders, Ph.D., Sankaran Mahadevan, Ph.D., and Matthew Weinger, M.D. Not pictured is Dan France, Ph.D., MPH. (photo by Anne Rayner) A multidisciplinary Vanderbilt… Read More

Researchers who want to ensure America’s nuclear power plants are safe for another generation are meeting at Vanderbilt University today and Thursday, focusing their attention on the aging concrete that encases reactors. The nation’s 100 nuclear power reactors represent a $600 billion investment and provide 65 percent of America’s non-carbon-emitting… Read More

Frank Parker One of the best things the world can do to promote peace and stability in the coming century is to expand commercial nuclear power based on the extraction of uranium from the ocean. That is the proposition which Frank Parker, an internationally recognized expert in remediation of radioactively… Read More