Kairos Power and Materion Corporation have commissioned a molten salt purification plant, which is expected to produce large amounts of fluoride salt coolant to be used in high-temperature molten salt reactors. The purification plant was designed by Kairos and is located at Materion’s campus in Elmore, Ohio. With TVA as a partner, Kairos Power aims […]
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Kairos Commissions Molten Salt Coolant Production Plant for High-Temperature Nuclear Reactors
Kairos Power, an advanced nuclear reactor developer, has commissioned a molten salt purification plant (MSPP) that will produce “large quantities” of a high-purity coolant for reactors based on its fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. The MSPP, one of the largest of its kind, is located at materials supplier Materion Corp.’s campus in Elmore, Ohio. […]
Newcomerstown, Ohio, asking for views on water
Village officials are polling area residents about the use of fluorine in the municipal water supply. Currently, by law passed by the State of Ohio in 1978, all municipal water plants providing water to their residents are required to add the chemical fluorine as prevention for tooth decay and to strengthen teeth. State officials said […]
Elyria seeks new fluoride system
The city of Elyria is looking to obtain a new fluoride feeder system. During a City Council Utilities, Safety and Environment committee meeting, members discussed applying for a grant to help offset the costs for a new system. Samuel Jacob, superintendent of the water system, asked the committee for permission to apply for a grant […]
Fluoride to be added to City of Wilmington water this week
The city received an Ohio Department of Health grant of $86,417.17 — plus an interest-free loan from Ohio EPA — to support implementation of fluoridation. WILMINGTON — The City of Wilmington will begin adding fluoride to its drinking water on Thursday, Feb. 25. It will take about three days for fluoridated water to reach all […]
Ohio School Fluoride Program
The Ohio Department of Health is no longer able to provide supplies for administering Fluoride in the school setting. Students previously were able to participate in the SWISH program for weekly dental fluoride treatments during the school year. As a result, James A. Garfield students will not be receiving this service beginning with the current […]
NNSA Plans to Take Some Portsmouth DUF6 for Weapons Programs
The National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to use a cleanup facility in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The semiautonomous Department of Energy weapons agency will do that by installing a fourth process line at the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facility at the Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, […]
‘Forever Chemicals’ Ruin Dairies
CLOVIS, N.M. (DTN) — Food may be the next frontier in research on a wide array of potentially toxic chemicals increasingly showing up in drinking water and groundwater nationally. Art Schaap and Fred Stone milk dairy cows more than 2,000 miles from each other, but right now, neither one of them can sell their milk. […]
Public Hearing Presentation on Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
The following are excerpts from a powerpoint presentation at a Public Hearing on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion Product Generated from DOE’s Inventory of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DOE/EIS-0359-S1; DOE/EIS-0360-S1). The maps and other details in the ppt were not accessible for coping. Background •DOE operates depleted uranium […]
Portsmouth & Paducah Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
Portsmouth & Paducah Facility Impacts On June 18, 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued environmental impact statements for the construction and operation of facilities to convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to depleted uranium (DU) oxide at DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Both the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Construction and […]