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US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), which is developing fourth-generation gas-cooled microreactors has selected Gadsden in Alabama as the location of the company’s MMR Assembly Plant (MAP). The facility will manufacture, assemble, test, and inspect the non-radiological modules needed to construct USNC’s Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR). No radioactive material will to be used or stored at the facility. The 578,000 square foot highly automated factory will feature state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing processes and equipment and will be capable of producing up to 10 complete MMR nuclear units a year.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 28 June 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsalabama-site-selected-for-mmr-assembly-plant-10967792
A repurposed parking lot at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Chalk River campus has been selected as the site for construction of a demonstration Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR), according to a joint statement by AECL, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and Global First Power (GFP).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanada-selects-site-for-first-mmr-10858795
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd (KF) to partner on the delivery of technical services to support the growing international fusion reactor market, with a key focus on testing related to tritium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CNL,-Kyoto-Fusioneering-join-forces-for-fusion-tec
Ultra Safe said the agreement marks the first commercial supply of enriched uranium product (EUP) for use in an advanced nuclear reactor in the world.
Ultra Safe said it will buy enriched EUP from Urenco USA for use in the manufacture of tri-structural isotropic (Triso) particles and fully ceramic micro-encapsulated (FCM) fuel via Ultra Safe’s planned joint venture with Framatome in the US.
The EUP will be produced and supplied by the Urenco USA uranium enrichment facility in New Mexico.
Kurt Terrani, executive vice-president at Ultra Safe said the company has been working hard to manage and de-risk the front end of our fuel cycle.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 04 March 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/urenco-to-provide-enriched-uranium-for-ultra-safe-s-mmr-3-5-2023
The joint venture expects to begin manufacturing Triso particles and fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel in late 2025.
The two companies said they had developed “concrete plans” to support rapid expansion to meet demand growth for advanced nuclear fuel in the US and global markets.
The partnership follows the opening of USNC’s pilot fuel manufacturing facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in August, the first and only privately funded facility in the US to manufacture Triso particles.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/framatome-usnc-joint-venture-aims-to-begin-manufacturing-in-2025-1-1-2023
Canada’s McMaster University, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), and Global First Power (GFP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further examine the feasibility of deploying a Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) at McMaster University, or an affiliated site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanadian-partners-to-study-deployment-of-micro-modular-reactor-10439214
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
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has adopted two 3D printers from additive manufacturing technology company Desktop Metal to form nuclear-grade silicon carbide for use in its innovative Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) nuclear fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/3D-printers-to-be-used-in-fuel-manufacture
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has licensed a novel method to 3D print components for nuclear reactors, developed by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which the Seattle-based company says is ideal for manufacturing components for its advanced nuclear reactor designs.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 12 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USNC-licenses-3D-printing-for-reactor-component-ma
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