Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:24:32 +0000
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has fabricated roughly two dozen commercial-grade fuel pellets of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) uranium dioxide (UO2), the Department of Energy (DOE) revealed on Nov. 20. The […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:56:33 +0000
Framatome, the France-based nuclear power company, said its Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) assembly reached a milestone, with the group on July 25 announcing the EATF successfully completed its first […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 16:09:00 +0000
Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region. The reactor tests have been ongoing since early 2019. The rods have four combinations of cladding and fuel matrix materials. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:50:56 +0000
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Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a GE-led joint venture with Hitachi Ltd. that supplies boiling water reactor fuel and fuel-related services around the world, said lead test assemblies utilizing its ARMOR-coated zirconium cladding and IronClad Accident Tolerant Fuel solutions have been installed at Exelon’s Clinton nuclear plant in Illinois. “We continue to work with our customers […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:41:56 +0000
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Russia has completed the first phase of nuclear accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) reactor testing at a government research facility. The achievement paves the way for ATF testing at a Russian commercial nuclear plant, which could begin in 2020. TVEL Fuel Co. of Rosatom, a company that provides nuclear fuel to 72 reactors in 14 countries, including […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000
The post Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Exelon’s Byron Unit 2 nuclear power plant has completed installation of EnCore Fuel, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) solution, marking the start of the first test of uranium silicide fuel pellets in a commercial nuclear reactor. The installation, completed during the plant’s scheduled 18-day spring refueling outage this April, but publicly announced on Sept. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Rosenergoatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear plant owner and operator, said it set another nuclear power production record in 2018. The company generated 204 TWh from its 35 reactors—1.4 TWh more than in
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:24:36 +0000
A bipartisan bill to modernize regulation of the nation’s nuclear power fleet passed in the U.S. Senate on Dec. 20 and the House on Dec. 21 without much opposition. It now heads to President Trump. S.512, better known as the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), seeks to provide a program to develop […]
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