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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

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.

Date: Friday, 09 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-starts-fuel-production-for-microreactor

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

A site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been selected as the site for the USA's first commercial high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)-based fuel fabrication facility. Construction of the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, or TF3, is to begin this year, with commissioning and start-up as soon as 2025.

Date: Thursday, 07 April 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tennessee-site-selected-for-advanced-reactor-fuel

The US Department of Defense's (DOD) project to develop a mobile reactor - Project Pele - is on track for full power testing of a mobile reactor in 2023, with outdoor mobile testing at a Department of Energy (DOE) installation in 2024, DOD's Jeff Waksman told the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 33rd Regulatory Information Conference last week.

Date: Saturday, 20 March 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Defense-Department-eyes-2022-for-microreactor-b

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.

Date: Thursday, 23 April 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kernel-formation-marks-progress-towards-TRISO-rest

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