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Westinghouse Electric has loaded its EnCore accident-tolerant fuel at Exelon Generation’s Byron-2 nuclear power plant in Illinois, the company said in a statement
Westinghouse said this is the first insertion of EnCore fuel assemblies into a commercial nuclear power plant.
The operation was carried out during a scheduled refuelling outage at Byron-2.
Westinghouse said the two lead test assemblies contain chromium-coated zirconium cladding for enhanced oxidation and corrosion resistance, higher density fuel pellets for improved fuel economics, and uranium silicide pellets.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-accident-tolerant-fuel-loaded-at-byron-2-9-3-2019