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First-Ever Additively Manufactured Debris-Filtering Bottom Nozzles Installed at Farley Nuclear Plant

June 27, 2024 admin accident tolerant fuel, ATF, Business, debris, engineering, Fuel, fuel cladding, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear reactor, power, Research and Development, Safety, southern nuclear, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:34 +0000

Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company and operator of more than 8.2 GW of nuclear power capacity, said it has completed the installation of lead test assemblies with additively […]

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In First, NRC Approves Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Enriched up to 8% for Commercial Power Generation

February 15, 2024 admin advanced reactors, ATF, Business, commercial power generation, Fuel, full coverage, gnf, haleu, leu+, nei, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, nuclear technology, Technology, u-235 enrichment

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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A Half-Century of Reliability: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

November 2, 2022 admin ATF, bge, Business, calvert cliffs, constellation, Environmental, Exelon, Fuel, full coverage, History, Legislative, licensing, Management, news, NRC, Nuclear, Safety, Technology, top plant, workforce

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:18:00 +0000

Baltimore Gas & Electric set out to build the 1.8-GW Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in 1967 because fossil energy was becoming expensive and controversial. Over its nearly 50 years of operation

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Russians Achieve Milestone with New Nuclear Fuel

May 19, 2022 admin accident tolerant fuel, advanced technology fuel, ATF, Business, Fuel, full coverage, International, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, rosatom, Safety, Technology, tvel

Credit 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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Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant

January 16, 2020 admin accident tolerant fuel, ATF, Exelon, framatome, Fuel, ge, gnf, hitachi, International, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, nuclear power plant, O&M, Plant Design, Research and Development, Russia, Safety, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit 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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Russia Completes First-Phase Testing of Nuclear Accident-Tolerant Fuel

October 31, 2019 admin accident tolerant fuel, ATF, Business, cladding, framatome, Fuel, ge hitachi, International, news, rosatom, Russia, Technology, tvel, uranium pellets, Westinghouse

Credit 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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Vogtle 2 Installs World’s First Full Accident-Tolerant Fuel Assemblies

April 5, 2019 admin ATF, Business, cea, DOE, EDF, framatome, France, Fuel, Georgia Power, gnf, hatch, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, southern nuclear, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:45:46 +0000

The world’s first complete advanced fuel test assemblies containing accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) have been installed at Southern Co.’s Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant’s Unit 2 in Georgia. Nuclear giant Framatome delivered the GAIA lead fuel assemblies containing enhanced ATF (EATF), including both pellets and cladding, to the plant owned by Georgia Power in January. […]

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