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Bill Gates firm sees ‘another major milestone’ for reactor demonstration in Wyoming

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 17 August 2024
Original article: nucnet.org/news/company-selects-sargent-and-lundy-to-design-natrium-plant-training-centre-8-5-2024

Company planning for anticipated demand from advanced reactor deployment

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 19 July 2024
Original article: nucnet.org/news/bwxt-to-cooperate-with-wyoming-on-evaluation-of-potential-sites-7-4-2024

Inaugural dig underway at retiring coal site for facility where sodium coolant system will be tested

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Original article: nucnet.org/news/bill-gates-reactor-company-breaks-ground-for-wyoming-nuclear-plant-6-2-2024

TerraPower of the USA and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR) have agreed to expand their existing memorandum of understanding, signed in January 2022, on the development of sodium-cooled fast reactors.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TerraPower-expands-cooperation-with-Japan-on-fast

Domestic source of production crucial for next-generation nuclear plants

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 14 October 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/centrus-begins-enrichment-operations-as-washington-aims-to-end-russian-monopoly-on-haleu-for-advanced-reactors-10-5-2023

TerraPower and Centrus Energy Corp have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to significantly expand their collaboration aimed at establishing commercial-scale, US production capabilities for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to supply TerraPower's first-of-a-kind Natrium reactor and energy storage system.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Agreement-ensures-demo-Natrium-plant-s-HALEU-needs

Agreements to cooperate on small modular reactors (SMRs) have been signed between South Korean and US companies during a visit by Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to the USA. Doosan Enerbility and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate with NuScale Power, while SK and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have agreed to collaborate with TerraPower.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 27 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Expansion-of-US-Korean-cooperation-on-SMRs

X-Energy Reactor Company is to build a digital twin-based support centre as the first step in its Commercial Operations Services business to support the initial deployment of its advanced modular reactors. Meanwhile, Energy Northwest is hopeful that X-energy's recent announcement that the first Xe-100 reactor will be installed at a Dow site on the US Gulf Coast will help further plans for its own project in Washington state.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-regional-centre-to-support-Xe-100-fleet-rollou

US-based Nano Nuclear Energy has been selected as a founding member of the US Department of Energy’s HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) Consortium. This came after Nano Nuclear earlier in February established a new subsidiary - HALEU Energy Fuel. The HALEU Consortium was established in 2022 to support the availability of HALEU for civilian domestic research, development, demonstration, and commercial use. Nano says HALEU Energy Fuel “will play a crucial role in the collaboration with the DOE on the future of North America’s HALEU fuel pipeline, reinforcing the United States energy sovereignty”.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Saturday, 25 February 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnano-nuclear-selected-as-founding-member-of-haleu-consortium-10622631

Construction will slip and zero carbon goal become harder TerraPower said its Natrium reactor could be delayed at least two years because of a lack of advanced fuel sources outside Russia. Courtesyy TerraPower. If the US does not work out how to prepare uranium fuel for advanced reactors, the startup of first-of-a-kind plants on which spent billions of dollars have been spent will be delayed, the Breakthrough Institute research centre said.

Construction of subsequent plants will slip into the future, and the goal of a zero-carbon energy system by mid-century, already hard, will become harder.

Breakthrough said fuel was needed for reactors designed to work well with wind and solar on the grid, to replace coal plants, and to do other kinds of work besides making electricity – all in the quest for a zero-carbon economy.

“Construction of subsequent plants will slip into the future, and the goal of a zero-carbon energy system by mid-century, already hard, will become harder,” Breakthrough said.

Some advanced reactors need high assay low-enriched uranium, or Haleu, fuel. Without it “we are likely to have the first few advanced reactors waiting to start up, with no fuel for them in sight,” Breakthrough said.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-research-centre-warns-of-delays-over-lack-of-haleu-1-4-2023

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