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US fusion energy developer Type One Energy Group has announced plans to build Infinity One - its stellarator fusion prototype machine - at Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant in Clinton, Tennessee.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 24 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Prototype-fusion-reactor-planned-for-TVA-site
Countries around the world turned to nuclear as a reliable low-carbon energy source as they looked for ways to wean themselves off Russian imports and lower carbon emissions.
New plants began operating, deals for small modular reactors were signed and countries announced ambitious plans for new-build.
On the political front, US president Joe Biden signed into law new legislation that will help to finance struggling nuclear reactors and could save dozens from being shut down early. In Europe, the nuclear industry celebrated when members of the European parliament decided to “follow the science” and support legislation which includes nuclear in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy for green investment.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/five-major-developments-that-are-setting-the-stage-for-2023-and-beyond-1-1-2023
Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas (GNF-A) and TerraPower are to build the Natrium Fuel Facility at GNF-A's existing site in North Carolina. The facility is part of a major expansion to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's (GEH) Wilmington operations that will also support commercial deployment of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 25 October 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-advanced-reactor-fuel-facility-for-expanding-G
The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on 1 March signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-operate in advancing decarbonisation technologies.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsornl-and-tva-partner-to-drive-carbon-free-technologies-9531117
Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at unit 2 of Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Browns Ferry NPP in Alabama, ORNL said on 9 August. The components were developed in collaboration with TVA, Framatome and the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy–funded Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) programme based at ORNL.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 12 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/news3d-printed-reactor-components-installed-at-browns-ferry-npp-8989591
US-based Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on 6 May announced plans to collaborate on deploying a low-power demonstration reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As part of this agreement, TVA will provide engineering, operations, and licensing support to help Kairos Power deploy its low-power demonstration reactor, named Hermes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstva-and-kairos-to-collaborate-on-hermes-smr-8735633
“To keep Sequoyah nuclear unit 2 generating low-cost, carbon-free energy, the team at the plant is performing a scheduled maintenance and refuelling outage,” plant owner and operator Tennessee Valley Authority said on social media.
“During these trying times, additional safety procedures are in place, including social distancing and wearing masks.”
Last month TVA said it had taken the “precautionary step” of delaying planned outages at Sequoyah-2 and Watts Bar-1 by two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/delayed-refuelling-and-maintenance-outage-begins-4-2-2020
S&P Global Platts said it is the first announced delay to a US outage.
“For competitive reasons, we don’t provide specifics on our outage dates,” Mr Hopson Hopson said. “However, both of the outages were previously planned for this spring and will begin two weeks later than originally scheduled.”
According to a March 20 letter from the Nuclear Energy Institute to the US Department of Energy a refuelling outage for the 1,139-MW Sequoyah-2 unit was originally scheduled to start in late March while the 1,123-MW Watts Bar-1 unit was set to begin an outage in the middle of April.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 28 March 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/utility-delays-planned-outages-at-two-nuclear-plants-3-5-2020
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to "evaluate a new generation of flexible, cost-effective advanced nuclear reactors".
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-oak-ridge-lab-to-collaborate-with-tva-on-advanced-reactors-7787558
The early site permit closes several site-related issues, including many related to environmental impacts, for SMRs at the site, the NRC said.
The permit, which will be valid for up to 20 years, is expected to be issued in the next few days.
The permit does not authorise any construction activities regulated by the NRC. No reactor designs have been approved and the TVA board has not yet approved the building of nuclear reactors in Oak Ridge. TVA would need to apply separately for an NRC licence to build and operate a reactor at the Clinch River Nuclear Site.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 19 December 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/nrc-to-issue-early-site-permit-for-small-modular-reactors-12-3-2019