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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor LWR) fuel from a commercial NPP to support research and testing for the first time in two decades. INL said it had received 25 experimental fuel rods irradiated in the reactor core of a commercial reactor. The fuel rods were developed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company with technical assistance from several US national laboratories, including INL.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinl-receives-irradiated-next-generation-fuel-for-testing-11473480
Westinghouse Electric Company has shipped 25 irradiated experimental nuclear fuel rods, including accident-tolerant fuel, to Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for testing and examination. The tests are part of the process to qualify the fuel for use in commercial reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 27 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Advanced-nuclear-fuel-arrives-at-INL-for-testi
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has transferred all of the used nuclear fuel from the closed Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) from wet to dry storage. The target was achieved almost nine months ahead of schedule.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-fuel-from-us-ebr-ii-reactor-transferred-to-dry-storage-10722440
Workers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have completed the transfer of all the used fuel from the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) from wet to dry storage, a major milestone under a 1995 agreement with the state of Idaho. The fuel was the last to be retrieved from the water-filled storage basin at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Final-fuel-transfer-from-storage-basin-at-INL
The projects, led by universities, private companies and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance used nuclear fuel recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks.
The DOE said nuclear energy generates nearly a fifth of the US’s electricity and accounts for half of all domestic clean energy generation.
While used nuclear fuel, sometimes referred to as spent nuclear fuel, is created during the process of generating nuclear energy, clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes.
Further, the used fuel can be recycled to make new fuel and byproducts that support the deployment of nuclear energy.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/doe-awards-usd38-million-for-used-nuclear-fuel-projects-10-2-2022
The DOE has chosen the Idaho National Laboratory as the preferred site for building the VTR and is expected to make a final decision on the project by late June. An alternative site in the final environmental impact statement was Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The VTR will be used to provide a source of fast neutrons for testing and evaluating nuclear fuels, materials, sensors, and instrumentation to support the development of advanced reactor technologies. Such facilities are available in only a few locations worldwide, and the US has not operated one in more than 20 years.
The VTR will be based on many of the design and passive safety features of GE Hitachi’s Prism small modular reactor. According to DOE researchers, the Prism design would require several changes, notably the elimination of electricity production and the accommodation for experimental locations within the core.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-doe-chooses-inl-over-oak-ridge-as-preferred-site-5-2-2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded USD36 million for 11 projects seeking to increase the use of nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy and to limit the amount of radioactive waste produced from advanced reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 12 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/DOE-funds-for-reducing-advanced-reactor-wastes
The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has set out its key priorities for 2022 as it pursues its mission to achieve the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from decades of US nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-agency-sets-out-2022-cleanup-priorities
The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) is marking thirty years of cleanup work at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site to ensure the protection and safety of the underlying Snake River Plain aquifer in compliance with state and federal regulations.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 10 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-decades-of-cleanup-work-marked-at-US-legacy
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) reported on 10 August that collaboration between National Laboratories had resulted in the reuse of a radioactive source. An EM programme at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site has taken the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” concept to the next level by sending a legacy radioactive source to another DOE site for reuse, it said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-labs-recycle-radioactive-source-9008784