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The facility will produce the first fuel for testing and qualification for use in Ultra Safe Nuclear’s advanced micro modular reactor (MMR) energy system, which the company says is “gaining traction” in the US and world markets.
The new facility uses the same production-scale modules for manufacturing Triso coated fuel particles and the company’s patented fully ceramic-microencapsulated (FCM) fuel that will go into Ultra Safe Nuclear’s future commercial fuel manufacturing facility.
The facility is capable of producing FCM for testing and qualification in multiple-kilogramme quantities, Ultra Safe Nuclear said. The facility will also codify and demonstrate the manufacturing modules that will be used in the company’s future commercial fuel manufacturing factory.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 24 August 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/ultra-safe-nuclear-opens-pilot-fuel-manufacturing-plant-for-microreactor-8-2-2022
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-chrome-coatings-to-protect-fuel-assemblies-9401086
The US Department of Energy's (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is to receive $3.9 million in funding for 13 university-led projects to develop the instrumentation and tools needed to monitor and conduct experiments in a proposed fast spectrum test reactor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-funding-for-idaho-national-laboratory-nuclear-projects-6795897
The first module Russia's Breakthrough (Proryv) project under development at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) in Seversk will be completed in 2017. Russia has moved from the design phase of the Pilot Demonstration Power Complex (PDPC) with the fast neutron reactor BREST-OD-300 and on-site closed nuclear fuel cycle. The Breakthrough project will include facilities for fuel fabrication and fuel recycling, as well as the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor. Vyacheslav Pershukov, state nuclear corporation Rosatom's head of design and innovation, said that long-lead items had been ordered from SverdNIIkhimmash for fuel module fabrication and re-fabrication. Installation of the equipment of the fuel fabrication module will start in the autumn. Construction of the facility began in August 2014. Contracts to supply equipment for the reactor facility are at the tendering stage, Pershukov added.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsconstruction-begins-at-russias-breakthrough-project-4857020
A pre-construction design review of the Hitachi-GE ABWR in the UK has proceeded to the next phase. Following a preliminary phase that ended in January 2014, the reactor design completed an initial technical assessment in August. But there remains lots more work to do before final approval, tentatively scheduled for December 2017.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 September 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsabwr-passes-uk-gda-step-2-but-full-psa-needed-4360853
A new era of space exploration is dawning through the application of nuclear energy for rovers on Mars and the Moon, power generation at future bases on the surfaces of both and soon for rockets that enable interplanetary travel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 27 July 2012
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-a-stepping-stone-to-space-exploration