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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded seven Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) vouchers to industry partners to support the development of promising advanced nuclear technologies. The companies will be able to leverage the expertise and research capabilities at selected DOE national laboratories to support their projects towards commercial deployment.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-awards-gain-vouchers-to-accelerate-advanced-nuclear-technologies-10978640
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
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
The preliminary design of X-energy's TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility to produce tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel on a commercial scale has now been completed, X-energy and Centrus Energy Corp announced today. The companies have also signed a contract for nuclear fuel and services provider Centrus to continue its work as the project enters its next phase.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Preliminary-design-of-TRISO-X-fuel-plant-completed
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL said on 3 August that it is to examine Westinghouse Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF). ORNL recently received several nuclear fuel test rods that were irradiated in a commercial reactor. The new advanced fuel concept is being developed by Westinghouse through DOE’s ATF programme. The industry-led effort is looking to commercialise new fuels within the decade to help improve the performance and economics of US reactors. ORNL will examine the irradiated fuel rods over the next year to support licensing efforts with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 06 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoak-ridge-national-laboratory-to-examine-westinghouse-accident-tolerant-fuel-8969081
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
Idaho National Laboratory has awarded BWX Technologies Inc a USD26 million, 20-month contract to expand and upgrade its manufacturing line for TRISO nuclear fuel. The award, to BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc, (BWXT NOG), will expand its capacity for the manufacture of TRISO fuel compacts and also upgrade existing systems for delivering production-scale quantities of the fuel, BWXT said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 03 July 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-wins-contract-to-expand-TRISO-production
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the consistency and reliability of its printed components.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ORNL-developing-3D-printed-nuclear-microreactor
Restart activities at BWX Technologies Inc's (BWXT) TRISO fuel manufacturing facility in Lynchburg, Virginia are progressing ahead of schedule, the company said yesterday. It has completed the demonstration of the fuel kernel sintering process and plans to bring two additional furnaces online to meet projected production demand before restart activities are complete.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kernel-formation-marks-progress-towards-TRISO-rest
US-based Westinghouse Electric Company announced on 18 January that it had been awarded $93.6 million of funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) in support of its EnCore accident-tolerant fuel programme.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 24 January 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-doe-funding-for-us-accident-tolerant-fuel-6953081.1