Mobility, Flexibility, Scalability: SMRs Forging Nuclear’s Future

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:08 +0000

The need for emissions-free power generation, along with the ability to provide more power when and where it’s needed, is driving research and development of smaller nuclear reactors. Energy industry

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Project Pele, DOD’s HTGR Mobile Nuclear Microreactor, Breaks Ground

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:36:44 +0000

Groundbreaking has kicked off at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where Project Pele—the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) full-scale transportable microreactor prototype—will be placed for testing in 2026. When operational, the reactor […]

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The Department of Defense (DOD) on Sept. 24, 2024, announced it broke ground on the Project Pele transportable microreactor project at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Led by DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office, the microreactor could be one of the first advanced reactors to operate in the U.S. as early as 2026. Source: DOE

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Another Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor Begins Construction in the U.S.

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Construction of Hermes, Kairos Power’s 35-MWth iterative non-power demonstration molten salt nuclear reactor, has officially kicked off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The effort marks another major step for the burgeoning advanced […]

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Architect’s rendering of the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor facility

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Kairos Power Gets NRC Green Light for Second Molten Salt Nuclear Facility

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:25:44 +0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has wrapped up its final safety evaluation for Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 “low power” advanced test facility, comprising two 35-MWth test molten salt reactors—similar to […]

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Kairos Power will break ground on its Oak Ridge campus in Summer 2024, starting with the facilities for ETU 3.0 and the Hermes demonstration reactor. Courtesy: Kairos Power

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Nuclear Cogeneration Gains Momentum in Wyoming with New Microreactor Partnership

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:08:05 +0000

Engineering giant Burns & McDonnell has entered into an agreement with nuclear technology specialist BWXT Technologies to advance the design and development of the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor (BANR). The […]

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Graphic illustrating the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor (BANR), a transportable microreactor designed for efficient energy production using TRISO fuel.

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

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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Pilot Advanced Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Facility Opens

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:13:11 +0000

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. has opened a pilot fuel manufacturing facility that will produce TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) coated fuel particles and the company’s proprietary fuel for use in its high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR). The Pilot Fuel Manufacturing (PFM) facility, located at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is one of the […]

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

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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U.S. Company Has Deal with Jordan for Nuclear Technology

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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There have long been grand plans for developing nuclear power in the Middle East. After Iran brought the Bushehr plant online in 2011, the country talked of building another dozen or so reactors. Saudi Arabia

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New Boosts for Commercial Production of HALEU Advanced Nuclear Reactor Fuel 

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:24:50 +0000

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Efforts to commercialize production of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel, which is needed for an array of advanced reactors, ramped up this week with two major announcements.  As the Department of Energy (DOE) contracted Centrus Energy to demonstrate production of HALEU fuel for advanced reactors at the DOE’s American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, private […]

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