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The Office of Nuclear Energy promotes nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the Nation's energy, environmental and national security needs by resolving technical and regulatory barriers through research, development and demonstration.
2009 Office of Nuclear Energy Performance Plan
This Performance Plan captures the Office of Nuclear Energy's (NE) performance in critical program areas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 and how NE plans to assess them in FY 2009. In addition, it provides our stakeholders with an overview of NE's programs, funding profile, and the Office's designated role within the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Strategic Plan.
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Pulsing the Future of Nuclear Energy
This document summarizes the reports listed below and provides a visual scorecard of the reports' findings and recommendations across several key areas of the nuclear energy enterprise.
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Nuclear Energy: Policies and Technology for the 21st Century Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (Nov 2008)
Facilities for the Future of Nuclear Energy Research: A Twenty-year Outlook
Department of Energy (Oct 2008, Draft)
Required Assets for a Nuclear Energy Applied R&D Program Idaho National Laboratory (Sep 2008, Draft)
Nuclear Energy for the Future, Required Research and Development Capabilities, An Industry Perspective
Battelle (Sep 2008)
A Sustainable Energy Future: The Essential Role of Nuclear Energy
Directors of DOE National Laboratories (Aug 2008)
Nuclear Energy for the Future, Executive Recommendations for R&D Capabilities
Battelle (Jul 2008)
Report on Proliferation Implications of the Global Expansion of Civil Nuclear Power
International Security Advisory Board (Apr 2008)
Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power
Congressional Research Service (2008)
Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program
National Academies Press (2008)
Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding
The Keystone Center (2007)
The Economic Future of Nuclear Power, A Study Conducted at The University of Chicago (2004)
The Future of Nuclear Power, An Interdisciplinary MIT Study Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003) |
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Department of Energy Issues Funding Opportunity Announcement to U.S. Universities for Nuclear Research Infrastructure Needs
March 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), valued at least $2.25 million for equipment and infrastructure upgrades at U.S. universities enhancing their ability to conduct cutting-edge nuclear research and development. > more
New energy research lab dedicated by CAES, elected officials
February 20, 2009
IDAHO FALLS -- On Feb. 20, Idaho National Laboratory and the state of Idaho – through its three public research universities that are partners in the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) – dedicated a new 55,000-square-foot, $17 million energy research laboratory on the banks of the Snake River in Idaho Falls.
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DOE Issues Draft Environmental Assessment for Disposition of Excess Uranium Inventories
December 23, 2008
The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Disposition of DOE Excess Depleted Uranium, Natural Uranium, and Low-Enriched Uranium for comments by January 30, 2009. The Draft EA analyzes the environmental impacts of alternative strategies for the management of excess uranium inventories currently stored at the DOE Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky, sites. For a printable copy of the Draft EA, please click here.
DOE Issues Excess Uranium Inventory Management Plan
December 16, 2008
DOE today issued the Excess Uranium Inventory Management Plan, which outlines the Department’s strategy for the management and disposition of its excess uranium inventories. The Plan highlights DOE’s ongoing efforts to enhance national security and promote a healthy domestic nuclear infrastructure through the efficient and cost-effective management of its excess uranium inventories. It also provides a strategy for the sale or alternative disposition of those inventories in a manner consistent with the Secretary’s Policy Statement issued in March 2008. To read the press release about the Plan, please click here. For a printable copy of the complete Plan, please click here.
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Annual Report Issued on U.S.-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement
October 2008
Report on the Effect the Low Enriched Uranium Delivered Under the Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation has on the Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion, and Enrichment Industries and the Operation of the Gaseous Diffusion Plant 2007 is available here.
Nuclear Energy Outlook Published by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
October 2008
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has published its first Nuclear Energy Outlook, in connection with the NEA's 50th anniversary celebration. The NEA said the new publication is designed to make an important contribution to ongoing discussions of nuclear energy's potential role in the energy mixes of its member countries, including the United States. To read the Executive Summary and obtain information on how to purchase a copy, visit the NEA's Website at www.nea.fr/neo/index.html.
"Life Beyond 60" Workshop Summary Report Issued
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) jointly sponsored the Life Beyond 60: NRC/DOE Workshop on U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Life Extension Research and Development on February 19–21, 2008. The report on the workshop proceedings has now been issued and is available here.
The Nuclear Energy Research Initiative 2007 Annual Report and the International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative 2007 Annual Report Issued
On June 24, 2008 the Department issued reports on its Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) and International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative
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