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US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has completed manufacture of a 3.7-metre-long heat pipe that will be used to support the Nuclear Test Reactor (NTR) Westinghouse aims to operate by 2026.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-manufactures-heat-pipe-for-evinci-microreactor-10648065
Framatome has completed the second 18-month fuel cycle of its GAIA PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) technology at unit 2 of Georgia Power’s Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in the USA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-atf-completes-second-cycle-at-vogtle-npp-10122873
The AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM), a subsidiary of Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL, has successfully developed the technology and manufactured experimental fuel pellets from uranium disilicide for light water reactors. The move is part of a programme for the development of so-called accident-tolerant fuel (ATF).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVEL-develops-accident-tolerant-fuel-pellets
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
Lead assemblies of Framatome's GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) have completed their first 18-month fuel cycle at a US nuclear power plant. This is the first time a full-length EATF concept with both pellets and cladding has completed a fuel cycle in a reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 04 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-EATF-completes-first-fuel-cycle
Alloy 617 - a combination of nickel, chromium, cobalt and molybdenum - has been approved by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for inclusion in its Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. This means the alloy, which was developed by Idaho National Laboratory (INL), can be used in proposed molten salt, high-temperature, gas-cooled or sodium reactors. It is the first new material to be added to the Code in 30 years.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 07 May 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Alloy-qualified-for-use-in-high-temperature-reacto
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy on 31 January confirmed that it had allocated $111.2 million to three industry entities for the development of accident tolerant fuels (ATF).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 08 February 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-confirms-funding-for-atf-development-6979331
France’s Framatome has signed a contract with US utility Entergy to deliver and insert lead use fuel rods that utilise chromium-coated rods into unit 1 at Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear plant in the autumn of 2019.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsatf-fuel-research-advances-under-a-framatome-entergy-contract-6765389
In July, the DOE and CH2M HILL broke ground on an $80m groundwater treatment facility for startup in 2012. Contractors are currently designing the facility and installing several wells that will be part of a treatment system that will pump more than 85 million gallons of contaminated groundwater per month from a large area in the center of the Hanford Site known as the Central Plateau.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 10 August 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshanford-groundwater-cleanup-ramps-up