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TRISO fuel produced at BWX Technologies Inc's Lynchburg facility in Virginia will power the Project Pele microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-starts-fuel-production-for-microreactor
Idaho National Laboratory has awarded BWX Technologies Inc a USD26 million, 20-month contract to expand and upgrade its manufacturing line for TRISO nuclear fuel. The award, to BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc, (BWXT NOG), will expand its capacity for the manufacture of TRISO fuel compacts and also upgrade existing systems for delivering production-scale quantities of the fuel, BWXT said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 July 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-wins-contract-to-expand-TRISO-production
Restart activities at BWX Technologies Inc's (BWXT) TRISO fuel manufacturing facility in Lynchburg, Virginia are progressing ahead of schedule, the company said yesterday. It has completed the demonstration of the fuel kernel sintering process and plans to bring two additional furnaces online to meet projected production demand before restart activities are complete.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kernel-formation-marks-progress-towards-TRISO-rest