Filter by tags: Chromium Silicon carbide Clear all tag filters
3 news articles found
Framatome said on 15 December it had secured a new four-year cooperative agreement and the US Department of Energy (DOE) valued at more than $150 million to continue development of its PROtect enhanced accident tolerant fuel (EATF) technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-and-us-doe-agree-to-cooperate-further-on-accident-tolerant-fuel-9337040
Russian fuel company TVEL plans to reach an agreement with the nuclear utility Rosenergoatom to irradiate reactor testing of accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) elements in a VVER-1000 reactor in the near future, TVEL Vice-President for Scientific and Technical Activities Alexander Ugryumov said on 27 September. He did not specify which version of the tolerant fuel is expected to be tested. Earlier TVEL listed four types of ATF being developed by Russian scientists including new fuel rod claddings and new fuel matrices. One option is the application of a heat-resistant coating based on chromium for fuel rod claddings to reduce the amount of hydrogen that could be generated in the event of a severe accident. This is the most advanced version which is now undergoing reactor tests at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) in Dimitrovgrad.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 02 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-developments-at-russias-tvel-6779751
Russia’s fuel company TVEL is developing accident tolerant fuel (ATF) for light water reactors and plans to begin testing it in late 2019, according to Kirill Komarov, first deputy general director of state nuclear corporation Rosatom. "The basis of all these developments are technological solutions in the field of materials science, related to zirconium and a variety of other materials, the alloy of which will enable the fuel to be extremely durable and resistant to any type of exposure, " he said on 18 July.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 23 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-accident-tolerant-fuel-to-be-tested-next-year-6261481