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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a contract to TRIGA International, a joint venture between Framatome and General Atomics, to fabricate fuel for the MARVEL microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory(INL). The TRIGA fuel fabrication contract was awarded through Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA), which operates INL. Framatome will manufacture a fuel similar to the TRIGA fuel used in US university reactors.

Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstriga-international-to-supply-fuel-for-marvel-microreactor-11359427

TRIGA International recently delivered 30 new fuel elements to Penn State University for its research reactor. The shipment is the first of its kind in more than a decade and restores an important fuel supply for the 35 TRIGA reactors operating around the world, including 17 in the United States.

Date: Saturday, 07 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspenn-state-receives-first-triga-fuel-shipment-in-10-years-11199316

TRIGA International, a joint venture between France’s Framatome and US General Atomics, has manufactured its first fuel element in more than 10 years. The fuel was fabricated at Framatome’s recently restored manufacturing facility at Romans-sur-Isère in France. The company completed a three-year $80m renovation project in 2021 funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and TRIGA International to restart its fuel production. During the renovation, DOE provided 76 lightly used TRIGA fuel elements to US research reactors to help meet immediate needs.

Date: Thursday, 16 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-fabricates-fuel-element-for-us-triga-research-reactors-10677166

Framatome has announced the completion of the first fabricated metallic fuel element for TRIGA research reactors in more than a decade. TRIGA International - a joint venture between Framatome and General Atomics - will now ramp up fuel manufacturing to power US TRIGA reactors with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Date: Thursday, 09 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/DOE-receives-new-TRIGA-fuel-as-production-resumes

The US.Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy recently agreed to a nine-year contract with TRIGA International to secure new fuel elements for half of the USA’s university-operated research reactors.

Date: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-secures-new-fuel-for-triga-research-reactors-9467593

The US Department of Energy has agreed a nine-year contract with TRIGA International to secure new fuel elements for its TRIGA research reactors. These will be the first fuel elements to be fabricated since the recent reopening of TRIGA International's fuel fabrication facility in France, which shut for refurbishment in 2012.

Date: Saturday, 05 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Unique-fuel-facility-restarts-fabrication

Finland's FiR 1 research reactor in Espoo will be permanently shut down in 2015, after being a centre of training and research for over five decades. Continued operation is 'unprofitable,' says VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

Date: Wednesday, 08 July 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsend-of-an-era-for-finnish-research-reactor-4618259

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