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Following the signing of a strategic three-year partnership with Thorizon of the Netherlands, Belgian engineering firm Tractebel - a subsidiary of France's Engie - will provide engineering services including support on the conceptual design, computational modelling, cost estimates and design reviews of the Thorizon One molten salt reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tractebel-to-assist-Thorizon-in-MSR-development
Advanced nuclear plant could power industries such as steel and mining
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/terrestrial-energy-reactor-completes-phase-2-vendor-design-review-4-2-2023
The companies said the partnership will “lead the decarbonisation of industrial applications through the deployment of Xe-100 SMRs”.
US-based X-energy said it developed and designed its Xe-100 reactor by building and improving on decades of high-temperature gas reactor research, development, and operating experience.
The Generation IV reactor is scalable to meet demand and one unit can generate up to 80 MW of electricity from 200 MW of thermal power. It efficiently produces steam at 565 °C and offers “highly flexible co-generation options”, making it the ideal candidate for decarbonising multiple industrial processes and supporting end-user power needs.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 15 July 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-and-x-energy-join-forces-in-drive-to-deploy-xe-100-smrs-7-4-2022
The UK-headquartered developer of small modular lead-cooled fast reactors, Newcleo, says it has successfully raised EUR300 million (USD316 million) and also announced it has contracted France’s Orano for feasibility studies on the establishment of a mixed plutonium-uranium oxides (MOX) production plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 21 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Newcleo-raises-USD316-million,-talks-with-Orano
The US Department of Defense Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) has announced it will proceed with the project to build and demonstrate a TRISO-fuelled prototype mobile microreactor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. It will be the USA's first electricity-generating Generation IV reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 15 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Project-Pele-mobile-microreactor-to-go-ahead
Terrestrial Energy has signed an agreement with Orano for the supply of nuclear fuel for its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR). The agreement is part of Terrestrial's multiple-sourcing strategy and follows the announcement last month of a similar partnership with Westinghouse and the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 October 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Terrestrial-teams-up-with-Orano-for-IMSR-fuel-supp
Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) announced on 22 June that it has begun working with the Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) from the Netherlands. NRG will implement a programme to analyse performance and safety attributes of the company’s proprietary Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCMTM) fuel designed for use in its Micro Modular Reactor (MMRTM).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusnc-to-test-its-fuel-in-nrgs-petten-reactor-8845301
Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group (NRG) of the Netherlands will conduct a programme of irradiation tests on Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's (USNC's) proprietary Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel at the High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten. The aim of the tests is to demonstrate the safety of the fuel for the 20-year lifespan of the USNC's Micro Modular Reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 June 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-fuel-to-be-qualified-in-Dutch-reactor