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US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) says the recent (£22.5m ($29.3m) matching funds grant awarded by the UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) will accelerate the design and deployment of its Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) in the UK and global markets. Application for the award was submitted in March by an integrated team with US-based Jacobs and earned the highest scores of all applications in Phase B of the UK’s Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) Research, Development & Demonstration Programme.

Date: Thursday, 27 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusnc-details-uk-funding-award-for-mmr-development-11030388

The joint report by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) establishes a common regulatory position on tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel qualification, for use in the licensing of advanced reactor and small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.

Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canadian,-US-regulators-publish-joint-TRISO-report

A repurposed parking lot at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Chalk River campus has been selected as the site for construction of a demonstration Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR), according to a joint statement by AECL, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and Global First Power (GFP).

Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanada-selects-site-for-first-mmr-10858795

The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility - or TF3 - in Oak Ridge, Tennessee will be North America's first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility and is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.

Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Groundbreaking-marks-start-of-construction-at-US-f

The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 16 December announced $30 million in initial funding for one of three programmes under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Programme (ARDP).

Date: Friday, 18 December 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-doe-funding-for-advanced-reactors-8415258

US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on 27 April announced $60m in support of advanced nuclear technology development for 13 projects. These selections were the first under Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy’s US Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear Technology Development funding opportunity announcement (FOA), and they will be reviewed quarterly over the next five years. DOE intends to apply up to $40m of additional FY 2018 funding to the subsequent two quarterly award cycles for innovative proposals under this FOA.  

Date: Wednesday, 02 May 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-60m-for-advanced-nuclear-technology-development-6135884

General Atomics (GA) announced that it has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for funding to help bring its innovative Energy Multiplier Module, EM2 small modular reactor to market. It has teamed up with industry and academia to support its application.

Date: Monday, 05 August 2013
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-atomics-applies-for-doe-small-reactor-funding