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DOE’s Decision to Build Versatile Test Reactor Coming Soon

May 18, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, Business, DOE, fast neutron, full coverage, inl, Legislative, microreactor, news, Nuclear, ornl, Research and Development, Technology, vtr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 17:53:50 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to decide whether it will build the 300-MWth Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a fast neutron national user facility that could provide the nuclear industry with a much-needed high-performance testing capability for advanced reactors and existing commercial reactors. The DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) on May 13 released […]

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Interest in DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Heats Up

January 23, 2020 admin battelle, bea, bechtel, Business, DOE, ge hitachi, inl, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, Technology, terrapower, versatile test reactor, vtr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:35:21 +0000

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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and TerraPower are jointly pursuing an opportunity to design and build the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), an experimental fast neutron nuclear reactor that could start up by 2026. The companies on Jan. 21 announced they collaborated on a response to an expression of interest (EOI) issued […]

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DOE Speeds Up Development of Experimental Fast Reactor, Sustain Flagging U.S. Nuclear Sector

August 8, 2019 admin advanced nuclear reactors, DOE, fast reactor, geh, haleu, inl, news, Nuclear, ornl, prism, versatile test reactor, vtr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:06:33 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) officially launched development of its Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), an experimental fast reactor that will foster experiments with much higher neutron energy and flux compared to the nation’s existing 35 research reactors to develop advanced nuclear fuel for future nuclear power plants in the U.S. The facility, it says, is […]

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Technology Selected for DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Program

November 19, 2018 admin advanced reactor, bechtel, Business, DOE, ge hitachi nuclear energy, geh, idaho national laboratory, news, Nuclear, Plant Design, Research and Development, Technology, versatile test reactor, vtr

Battelle Energy Alliance—the management and operating contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)—selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH’s) PRISM technology to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program. The VTR program is expected to accelerate the development of fuels and materials for U.S. advanced reactors, utilizing fast neutron spectrum technology. Rather […]

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