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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a three-year contract to US-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to develop a scalable, cost-competitive path to manufacture silicon carbide (SiC) and SiC composite foam materials for advanced fusion power plants.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 03 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgeneral-atomics-to-develop-silicon-carbide-materials-for-fusion-power-plants-11483120
NAC International's patented Optimus-L packaging system to contain and transport high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) TRISO fuel has been approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Such fuel will be used in advanced reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 13 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-approves-HALEU-transport-package
Ultra Safe said the agreement marks the first commercial supply of enriched uranium product (EUP) for use in an advanced nuclear reactor in the world.
Ultra Safe said it will buy enriched EUP from Urenco USA for use in the manufacture of tri-structural isotropic (Triso) particles and fully ceramic micro-encapsulated (FCM) fuel via Ultra Safe’s planned joint venture with Framatome in the US.
The EUP will be produced and supplied by the Urenco USA uranium enrichment facility in New Mexico.
Kurt Terrani, executive vice-president at Ultra Safe said the company has been working hard to manage and de-risk the front end of our fuel cycle.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 04 March 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/urenco-to-provide-enriched-uranium-for-ultra-safe-s-mmr-3-5-2023
TRISO fuel pebbles for the Hermes demonstration reactor will be produced at the New Mexico lab's Low Enriched Fuel Fabrication Facility (LEFFF) under a newly announced agreement. This is the first nuclear iteration in Kairos Power's "rapid iterative approach" to nuclear fuel development as well as the first nuclear fuel development campaign for LEFFF.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kairos-Power,-Los-Alamos-collaborate-to-make-TRISO
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
Westinghouse has been awarded a grant by the UK government to complete a Pre-Front End Engineering Design study, in collaboration with Urenco, for the production of TRISO fuels at its Springfields facility in Preston, Lancashire.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-to-study-UK-production-of-advanced-nu
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Groundbreaking-marks-start-of-construction-at-US-f
BWXT subsidiary BWXT Advanced Technologies (BWXT AT) has finalised its formal cost-sharing contracting with the US Department of Energy (DOE) for its BANR (BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor) transportable microreactor and is on track to deliver the first round of the reactor's TRISO fuel for testing at Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Advanced Test Reactor in 2024 as scheduled.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 13 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-provides-update-on-microreactor-progress
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tennessee-site-selected-for-advanced-reactor-fuel
BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc has completed its TRISO nuclear fuel line restart project and is actively producing fuel at its facility in Lynchburg, Virginia, BWX Technologies, Inc (BWXT) has announced. TRISO - standing for TRIstructural-ISOtropic - particles contain a spherical kernel of enriched uranium oxycarbide surrounded by layers of carbon and silicon carbide, which contains fission products.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-completes-TRISO-fuel-line-restart