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The joint report by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) establishes a common regulatory position on tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel qualification, for use in the licensing of advanced reactor and small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 July 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canadian,-US-regulators-publish-joint-TRISO-report
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
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
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has declared open the Pilot Fuel Manufacturing (PFM) facility, which will produce the first fuel for testing and qualification for use in the company's advanced Micro Modular Reactor (MMR). The plant will be the USA's first producer of private-sector TRISO and USNC's patented Fully Ceramic-Microencapsulated - or FCM - fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pilot-TRISO-fuel-manufacturing-plant-opens-in-Tenn
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
US-based X-energy announced on 9 August that it will expand its fuel division as a wholly owned subsidiary called TRISO-X to commercially develop its proprietary tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel for the burgeoning advanced nuclear energy sector. Dr Pete Pappano, X-energy’s Vice President of fuel production, will lead the new company as its President. Since joining X-energy in 2015, Dr Pappano has been instrumental in supporting the company’s ability to produce advanced nuclear fuel at a commercial scale. As the leader of X-energy’s ARC15 project, a five-year programme funded by the Department of Energy, he established a commercial-scale fuel line at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which has demonstrated the company’s patented TRISO fabrication process leading to higher yields and higher quality fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsx-energy-expands-triso-x-to-commercialise-its-advanced-nuclear-fuel-8991361
The US Department of Defense's (DOD) project to develop a mobile reactor - Project Pele - is on track for full power testing of a mobile reactor in 2023, with outdoor mobile testing at a Department of Energy (DOE) installation in 2024, DOD's Jeff Waksman told the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 33rd Regulatory Information Conference last week.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 March 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Defense-Department-eyes-2022-for-microreactor-b
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
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
BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc (NOG) has been awarded a contract from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to manufacture TRISO nuclear fuel to support the continued development of the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR). The TCR project aims to build an additively manufactured microreactor, with a demonstration unit planned to be operational by 2023.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 13 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-to-produce-TRISO-fuel-for-3D-printed-reactor