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SMR Developer X-Energy Completes Canadian Pre-Licensing Milestone, Projects Look Promising

January 18, 2024 admin Business, Fuel, full coverage, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, Plant Design, power, Research and Development, Small Modular Reactor, smr, Technology, triso-x, x-energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:03:45 +0000

X-Energy Reactor Co. LLC, a developer of advanced small modular nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, reported on Jan. 17 that it has successfully completed milestones in […]

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DOE Launches Nuclear RFP for Uranium Enrichment to Expand Domestic HALEU Chain

January 14, 2024 admin advanced reactors, Business, deconversion, DOE, Fuel, full coverage, haleu, natrium, news, Nuclear, office of nuclear energy, power, recycling, rfp, supply chains, terrapower, uranium enrichment, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:49:07 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for uranium enrichment and storage services as part of a measure aimed at stimulating a domestic supply […]

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Puget Sound Energy Commits $10M to Nuclear Power Feasibility Work, X-energy SMR Technology a Leading Contender for Project

January 14, 2024 admin Business, energy northwest, Environmental, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, Plant Design, power, pse, puget sound energy, Small Modular Reactor, smr, top plant, x-energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:23:52 +0000

Energy Northwest, a Washington state public power joint operating agency, announced an agreement with Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy (PSE), which it says will “accelerate the agency’s program examining the feasibility […]

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DOD Advances X-Energy Mobile Nuclear Microreactor as Second Project Pele Design

September 14, 2023 admin BWXT, commercial spin-offs, department of defense (dod), DOE, energy resilience, fossil fuel offsetting, full coverage, haleu, htgr, inl, microreactor, mobile nuclear power plant, news, Nuclear, nuclear power development, project pele, record of decision, record of decision (rod), Research and Development, Technology, triso, tristructural isotropic (triso) reactor fuel, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:52:44 +0000

The Department of Defense (DOD) has moved to develop a second transportable microreactor under Project Pele, granting X-energy a contract option to develop an enhanced engineering design. The one-year contract […]

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X-Energy, Dow Unveil Texas Site for ARDP Nuclear Demonstration

May 12, 2023 admin advanced nuclear, Business, combined heat and power, dow, full coverage, industrial decarbonization, news, Nuclear, seadrift, Technology, texas, x-energy, xe-100

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:45:53 +0000

X-energy and Dow will site a proposed four-unit 320-MWe Xe-100 advanced nuclear reactor facility at Union Carbide Corp. Seadrift Operations, a sprawling Dow chemical materials manufacturing site in Seadrift, Calhoun […]

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X-energy and Dow Will Deploy a 320-MWe Xe-100 Nuclear Facility at Gulf Coast Site

March 2, 2023 admin advanced nuclear, ardp, Business, DOE, dow, full coverage, htgr, industrial decarbonization, Markets, news, Nuclear, supply chains, Technology, x-energy, xe-100

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:46:58 +0000

X-energy will demonstrate its four-unit 320-MWe Xe-100 advanced nuclear reactor facility under the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) at a Dow site in the U.S. Gulf Coast region by the end of the decade—not in Washington State as originally planned. The shakeup stems from a joint development agreement (JDA) the nuclear […]

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Updates on Five Big Nuclear Energy Developments POWER Was Watching in 2022

December 30, 2022 admin advanced reactor, bipartisan infrastructure act, Business, DOE, engineering, full coverage, haleu, news, Nuclear, NuScale, office of nuclear energy, power, Research and Development, Technology, terrapower, x-energy

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:16:48 +0000

In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) published a list of five nuclear energy stories to watch in 2022. Here’s an update on the items the NE felt were important for industry insiders to keep an eye on. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law The DOE noted in the January […]

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Small Modular Reactors Aren’t Difficult Nuclear Waste Generators

December 7, 2022 admin Environmental, Fuel, full coverage, natrium, news, Nuclear, nuclear waste, NuScale, power, Research and Development, Safety, Small Modular Reactor, smr, snf, Spent nuclear fuel, Technology, terrapower, x-energy, xe-100

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:26:42 +0000

Many experts believe small modular reactors (SMRs), which are generally classified as nuclear power reactors with an electrical output of 300 MW or less, offer great promise for supplying the world with carbon-free energy. Several SMRs designs are under development by companies around the world including NuScale Power, GE-Hitachi, Terrestrial Energy, TerraPower, Toshiba, X-energy, and […]

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Nuclear Fuel Facility Unveiled for Natrium Fast Reactor Demonstration

October 27, 2022 admin Business, DOE, full coverage, geh, gnf-a, haleu, natrium, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, triso-x, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:11:52 +0000

A fuel fabrication facility that will create reliable fuel for TerraPower and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) 345-MWe Natrium pool-type sodium fast reactor (SFR) demonstration in Wyoming and future Natrium nuclear plants is taking shape at Global Nuclear Fuel–Americas’ (GNF-A’s) nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. GNF-A, a 2007-established GE-led joint venture with […]

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Green Light for Project Pele, Defense Department’s Mobile Nuclear Microreactor Demonstration

April 21, 2022 admin BWXT, Distributed Generation, distributed power, dod, DOE, engineering, full coverage, haleu, htgr, microreactor, news, Nuclear, project pele, Research and Development, Technology, triso, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:29:06 +0000

The Department of Defense (DOD) will push forward on Project Pele, a much-watched mobile microreactor prototype, and demonstrate its full operation for a minimum of three years at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) on April 15 formally released a record of decision (ROD) to proceed with the program, […]

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