Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:57:18 +0000
As global nuclear ambitions surge, the industry’s fuel supply chain faces critical gaps. Can advanced fuels like HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) and TRISO (TRi-structural ISOtropic particle fuel)
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:07:41 +0000
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC), a developer of much-watched microreactor technology and advanced nuclear fuel, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The move signals a critical restructuring phase through which […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:51:10 +0000
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) announced six companies have successfully bid to provide deconversion services for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel to support advanced nuclear reactors. The DOE on […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:44:37 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) a construction permit to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus in Texas. The […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 19:59:41 +0000
Framatome and TerraPower will team to design and develop a pilot line for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) metallization, a crucial deconversion process, at Framatome’s nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 19:18:46 +0000
British officials said the UK government will invest about £200 million (more than $251 million) for a project to build Europe’s first production facility for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Officials […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:06 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Global Nuclear Fuel—Americas (GNF) its first-ever authorization to produce nuclear fuel with uranium-235 (U-235) enrichments up to 8% for commercial power generation. GNF, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:47:57 +0000
A roadmap released by the UK government on Jan. 11 aimed at quadrupling the country’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 sets out a series of goals and actions that could […]
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:11:55 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has allowed Centrus Energy—a firm contracted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) production with domestic technology—to introduce uranium […]
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