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10/09/2026

ORAU’s Don Hanlon will be attending the International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference and EMEX 2026 in Long Beach, Calif., in November. See Don at booth #338 to learn about Exercise Builder Nuclear, our online platform used by emergency preparedness managers in the nuclear power industry to manage the many drills and exercises required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to prepare plants to meet any type of threat.

Before you get to Long Beach, learn about the seven benefits of Exercise Builder Nuclear: https://www.orau.org/technology-products/exercise-builder-nuclear.html or schedule a demo with Don!

10/08/2026

Ashley Stowe, ORAU Chief Growth and Partnerships Officer, was among the ORAU employees who presented at the 72nd Annual International Meeting of the Radiation Research Society this week. Stowe presented “An Overview of the Changing Nuclear Technology Landscape.”

10/08/2026

📰 ON OUR BLOG

❓ Did You Know? ⌚ The glow-in-the-dark watches of the 1920s came with a deadly hidden cost.
The “Radium Girls” were young women hired to paint luminous watch dials using radium-infused paint—often encouraged to shape their brushes with their lips, unknowingly ingesting radioactive material every day. What followed became one of the most shocking workplace health scandals in U.S. history.
Their fight for justice changed worker safety standards forever.

Our blog explores:
• How radium became a cultural obsession
• The devastating health effects suffered by dial painters
• The legal battle led by women like Catherine Donohue
• How their stories helped shape modern radiation safety protections
• Artifacts now preserved at ORAU’s Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity

Read the full story here▶️ ▶️ https://bit.ly/4rQm5T2

By the mid-1920s and into the 1930s, a rash of radium-related illnesses began to emerge including hundreds of instances of severe anemia, radiation poisoning, bone fractures and necrosis of the jaw, a condition that came to be known as “radium jaw.” The common denominator in these cases: the sic...

10/08/2026

ORAU’s Michelle Goodson, Chelsea Hill and Laura Hammons are in Washington, D.C., this week for the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Nuclear Energy Workforce Summit. The ORAU team is sharing their expertise as panelists or facilitators for several of the summit’s sessions. In these photos, Goodson is facilitating and Hill is presenting on a panel titled, “Expanding the Talent Pool: Attracting People to Nuclear Careers.”

10/07/2026

📆 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
ORAU will welcome James P. Danly, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Congressman Chuck Fleischmann to Pollard Center for the Next Steps for the Nuclear Workforce event on Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Next Steps for the Nuclear Workforce is a follow-up to the successful Pathway to Trades Summit held earlier this year. The event aims to continue the momentum as our regional and national coalition continues to move with speed, bridge critical gaps, and measure progress meeting the need for more workers across the skilled trades and nuclear workforce ecosystem. The event is sponsored by ORAU, the Tennessee Nuclear Network and North America's Building Trades Unions.
For more information and to register: https://orau.org/pathway-to-trades/index.html

10/07/2026

ORAU is holding virtual listening sessions to collect feedback from leaders in academia, industry, and government across the State of Tennessee, especially in these areas:
▶️ Academia: K-12 and higher education, including TCE and TCAT
▶️ Government: state education, labor and workforce development agencies
▶️ Industry, including the following priority sectors:
o Distribution & Logistics
o Headquarters, Finance & Technology
o Automotive
o Food & Beverage
o Nuclear Energy
o Healthcare & Life Sciences
o Appliance & Electrical
o Advanced Manufacturing

Virtual listening sessions will last about 90 minutes and are scheduled at the following dates and times:
⌚ Tuesday, October 13 from 10:00-11:30 AM EDT
⌚ Thursday, October 15 from 1:00-2:30 PM EDT
⌚ Monday, October 19 from 9:00-10:30 AM EDT
⌚ Wednesday, October 21 from 2:00-3:30 PM EDT

Participation is limited to organizations based in Tennessee or anyone who oversees operations in Tennessee but might be based outside the State. Participants can access the listening session via this link: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1653847590?pwd=ILz9biunFQZUdiyaEHljKVF7pBCawa.1

10/06/2026

📰 ON OUR BLOG
As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries across the globe, its growing convergence with biotechnology is opening the door to both groundbreaking medical advances and complex new risks. Greg Nichols, AI Lead for the ORAU STEM Accelerator, has spent years examining those challenges through the lenses of public health, national defense and emerging technology policy.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4d3znFD

As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries across the globe, its growing convergence with biotechnology is opening the door to both groundbreaking medical advances and complex new risks. Greg Nichols, has spent years examining those challenges through the lenses of public health, n...

10/05/2026

📆 SAVE THE DATE!

ORAU will welcome James P. Danly, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Congressman Chuck Fleischmann to Pollard Center for the Next Steps for the Nuclear Workforce event on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Next Steps for the Nuclear Workforce is a follow-up to the successful Pathway to Trades Summit held earlier this year. The event aims to continue the momentum as our regional and national coalition continues to move with speed, bridge critical gaps, and measure progress meeting the need for more workers across the skilled trades and nuclear workforce ecosystem. The event is sponsored by ORAU, the Tennessee Nuclear Network and North America's Building Trades Unions.

More information and a registration link are coming soon!

10/03/2026

📰 On our blog:
🏥 For hospitals, government agencies, manufacturers, universities, utilities and private businesses alike, emergency preparedness requires constant coordination, documentation, evaluation and improvement. 🚑

📂 The challenge is that many organizations are still managing those responsibilities through disconnected spreadsheets, email chains, paper files and manual reporting processes.

ORAU’s Emergency Manager 360 (aka, EM360) was built to change that. Read more ▶️▶️ https://bit.ly/4AdOEOg

EM360 is a comprehensive emergency preparedness platform designed to help organizations manage the full cycle of preparedness activities in one place.

10/01/2026

ORAU hosted the Pathway to Trades Summit this summer, an event that brought together a broad coalition of stakeholders in the nuclear industry to discuss aligning workforce development efforts with unprecedented industry growth. The Pathway to Trades Summit was sponsored by ORAU, the North America’s Building Trades Unions and the Tennessee Nuclear Network.

October is shaping up to be an exciting month for follow-on activities. Keep an eye out for more information coming soon. In the meantime, read our blog about the summit and check out some of the results from the event.
Read our blog: https://bit.ly/4uTmJj4
Check out the results page: https://bit.ly/4vrKPC2