USNIC Key Mover Update The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) will be the nation’s first 10 CFR 70 Category II fuel facility dedicated exclusively to fueling HALEU based reactors. Click Here WSU Tri-Cities Welcomes Joshua Heyne Joshua Heyne has joined WSU Tri-Cities as the director of the Bioproducts Science and Engineering Laboratory, co-director of the Bioproducts Institute and associate professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Click Here OCOchem Awarded $1.5M Grant OCOchem and global partners awarded Washington state Clean Energy Fund Research Development & Demonstration grant to create green energy power generator for refrigerated cargo containers at the Port of Tacoma. Click Here Washington River Protection Solutions Funds Cooperative Internship Program for WSU Tri-Cities Students Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), a prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection, is donating $250,000 to WSU Tri-Cities to establish a unique internship cooperative employment program. Click Here The Nuclear Supply Chain Starts with Uranium Several recent articles have addressed the fact that Russia provides about 16% of the uranium fabricated into fuel for US reactors. At present, Russia has much of the world’s capacity to enrich uranium, including the more highly enriched uranium needed for the X-energy and TerraPower advanced reactors. Click Here Advanced Reactor Summit IX & Technology Trailblazers Showcase An Advanced Reactor Summit was held in Sun Valley, ID April 4-7, 2022. With over 300 attendees, there were updates from Terra Power, X-energy, NuScale, USNC among many others. Washington VERTical presented and shared information on the formation of the Clean Energy Supply Alliance, which will prepare for the new advanced reactor and clean energy supply chain of the future. Click Here First International Moon Day On July 20, 2022, an international science and technology group called the Moon Village Association will be holding the first ever International Moon Day. This is to celebrate the first manned moon landing as well as the continuing world efforts to return to the Moon for commerce and science reasons. This is to celebrate the first manned moon landing as well as the continuing world efforts to return to the Moon for commerce and science reasons. This is to celebrate the first manned moon landing, as well as continuing world efforts to return to the Moon for commerce and science reasons. Click Here