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US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has received approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use its Advanced Doped Pellet Technology (ADOPT) fuel pellets in US pressurised water reactors (PWRs). The approval came after both NRC and the Advanced Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) verified that ADOPT fuel significantly enhances the safety and reliability of PWRs.

Date: Friday, 17 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnrc-approval-for-westinghouse-adopt-accident-tolerant-fuel-10679689

Scientists of Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are investigating the behaviour of welded joints made of E110 zirconium alloy, obtained by means of laser welding with the aim of developing accident tolerant fuel.

Date: Friday, 14 January 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-chrome-coatings-to-protect-fuel-assemblies-9401086

A Framatome employee inspects a Gaia fuel assembly Courtesy Framatome. The first reload of Framatome’s Gaia advanced accident-tolerant nuclear fuel has been installed in a US pressurised water reactor unit.

The French company said 64 fuel assemblies manufactured at its fuel fabrication facility in Richland, Washington, were loaded into the reactor as part of a standard spring refuelling outage.

It did not name the plant where the fuel had been loaded. In April 2019, Framatome said the first Gaia assemblies had been loaded into the reactor core of Unit 2 at Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear power plant.

Lionel Gaiffe, senior executive vice-president, fuel business unit at Framatome, said Gaia is the company’s most advanced pressurised water reactor fuel design. The fuel has several advanced features that provide added safety and economic benefits to nuclear plant operators.

Date: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-reload-of-gaia-fuel-completed-at-us-pwr-7-2-2021

France’s Framatome announced that its GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) technology had recently completed its first 18-month fuel cycle at the Vogtle 2 nuclear power plant in the US, marking the first time a full-length EATF concept with both pellets and cladding has completed a fuel cycle in a reactor.

Date: Thursday, 04 February 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatomes-gaia-enhanced-accident-tolerant-fuel-completes-first-fuel-cycle-8494128

Lead assemblies of Framatome's GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) have completed their first 18-month fuel cycle at a US nuclear power plant. This is the first time a full-length EATF concept with both pellets and cladding has completed a fuel cycle in a reactor.

Date: Thursday, 04 February 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-EATF-completes-first-fuel-cycle

The first accident tolerant fuel assemblies containing both modified cladding and pellets have been loaded into until 2 of the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, Southern Nuclear and Framatome announced 5 April.

Date: Monday, 08 April 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaccident-tolerant-fuel-in-operation-at-vogtle-2-7142564

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