• Save the Date details for NOW 2023 - August 1 & 2 at the Hilton Knoxville Airport.
• Learn about TVA's Clinch River Nuclear Site - a recording from ETEC's Friday meeting.
• TAEBC's Energizing Tennessee Podcast featuring ETEC & Kairos Power - listen now.
• A recap of the busy month in Nuclear News highlighting companies with a tie to East TN.
• What's Happening in the Nuclear Industry in East Tennessee.

Save the Date - ETEC's Nuclear Opportunities Workshop

ETEC Friday Meeting - TVA's New Nuclear Program

TAEBC's Energizing TN Podcast - ETEC & Kairos Power

2023 Nuclear News Recap

• Governor Wants Tennessee to Become Nation's Leader in Developing Next Generation of Nuclear Power - Chattanooga Times Free Press (ETEC President Tracy Boatner is quoted in this article!)

• Centrus Completes Construction and Initial Testing of HALEU Demonstration Cascade, Expects to Begin Production by End of 2023 - Centrus Energy
• HALEU Demonstration: Key 1st Step in Fueling Success for U.S. Advanced Reactors - DOE NE
• Ultra Safe Nuclear, Framatome Form Joint Venture to Manufacture TRISO & FCM Fuel - USNC
• NRC's Public Engagement: TRISO-X Adv. Nuclear Fuel Facility License Application - X-Energy
• NRC Accepts TRISO-X’s Application for First-of-a-Kind Fuel Fabrication Facility - TRISO-X

• GE Hitachi Signs Contract for the First North American Small Modular Reactor - GE Hitachi
• Kairos Makes List of 100 Most Promising Cleantech Companies - ANS Nuclear Newswire
• NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design - DOE NE

• Busby Named Associate Lab Director for Fusion and Fission Energy and Science - ORNL
• Steady Beat of Progress in 2022 Shapes Oak Ridge’s Future Success DOE OREM
• New Y-12 Facility to ‘Modernize’ United States Nuclear Weapons Stockpile - WATE
• Radiological Response Training Facility Celebrates Opening in Oak Ridge - CNS Y-12

• Tennessee Rep. Chuck Fleischmann to Lead Energy Development Subcommittee - Knox News
• 5 Nuclear Energy Stories to Watch in 2023 - DOE NE
• Dr. Michael Goff Named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy - DOE NE
• 11 Big Wins for Nuclear Energy in 2022 - DOE NE

What's Happening - Nuclear Industry in East Tennessee

• A nuclear advocate in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, Chair of the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee and co-chair of the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus.
• A pro-nuclear Tennessee Governor who is proposing a $50 million Nuclear Fast Track fund to recruit more innovative nuclear companies to our state.
• Access to research and development capabilities and collaboration with some of the world’s experts relative to advanced nuclear technologies at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
• TVA’s Clinch River Site where they are making plans to host an Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technology Park with the potential for multiple different reactor technologies.
• In East Tennessee Centrus Energy designs, tests, and manufactures the world’s most advanced uranium enrichment centrifuge machines. Centrus also supports other companies in the advanced reactor fuel cycle by leveraging their decades of expertise in uranium chemistry, nuclear facility licensing, and criticality analysis.
• A hub of advanced nuclear innovators making their home in Oak Ridge: Kairos Power, TRISO-X, and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation; along with fusion energy innovators, General Fusion.
• A pro-nuclear community with a pool of talented individuals who have training and understanding of nuclear operations.
• Nearly 150 companies working in the nuclear industry statewide - see the 2022 nuclear industry map here.