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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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Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel

September 12, 2019 admin accident tolerant fuel, Business, byron, cladding, Clinton, Exelon, framatome, gnef, hatch, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, pellets, Research and Development, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000

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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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