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: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:48:18 +0000
Framatome and Slovak utility Slovenské elektrárne on July 23 announced the companies have signed a major contract for the long-term supply of nuclear fuel to the Bohunice and Mochovce VVER […]
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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: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:31:08 +0000
Framatome and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to demonstrate the feasibility of producing non-carrier added lutetium-177, a medical isotope used for a […]
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Credit 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: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:09:54 +0000
Officials in France have announced the existing Bugey nuclear power station near Lyon will be the site of two new EPR reactors. The government of President Emmanuel Macron last year […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:31:27 +0000
The post POWER Notebook: A Week of Trials and Triumphs for Nuclear appeared first on POWER Magazine.
The past week saw interesting developments worldwide for nuclear new builds, small modular reactors (SMRs), and advanced nuclear fuel. Highlighted here: A third U.S. utility will use Framatome’s ATRIUM 11 fuel design; Barakah 1 in the United Arab Emirates is on the cusp of startup; South Africa’s Eskom said it wants to dispose of PBMR […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:50:56 +0000
The post Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:01:59 +0000
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Unit 1 at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China is the site of a milestone for nuclear technology. It also illustrates cooperation between France and China, using the lessons learned from earlier projects
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:41:56 +0000
The post Russia Completes First-Phase Testing of Nuclear Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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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