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NRC grants license for TRISO-X fuel manufacturing using HALEU
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted X-energy subsidiary TRISO-X a special nuclear material license for high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel fabrication. The license applies to TRISO-X’s first two planned commercial facilities, known as TX-1 and TX-2, for an initial 40-year period. The facilities are set to be the first new nuclear fuel fabrication plants licensed by the NRC in more than 50 years.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Friday, December 3, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Student Assistant:
Zachary Deziel
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Fundamental Study and Demonstration of Core Monitoring by Ex-Core Detectors Based on the Power Correlation Between Fuel Regions
3:10–3:30PM EST
Rei Kimura (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Yuki Nakai (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Satoshi Wada (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Atsushi Sakon (Kindai Univ.), Tadafumi Sano (Kindai Univ.)
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Conceptual Development Methods for Heat Pipe Microreactors
3:30–3:50PM EST
Mikaela e. Blood (LANL), Alexis Maldonado (LANL), D. V. Rao (LANL)
Reactivity Control of Uranium Nitride Fueled Micro-Reactors with Burnable Poisons and Control Sliders
3:50–4:10PM EST
Aaron She (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
New Burnable Absorber Loading Design in SMR No-Onsite Refueling Strategy Performance Assessment
4:10–4:30PM EST
Gray Chang (JFoster and Assoc.), Mie Hiruta (J Foster and Assoc.), Julie Foster (JFoster and Assoc.), Jim Harrell (Zachry Nuclear)
Design Analysis of a Micro Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor
4:30–4:50PM EST
Luay Alawneh (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Harold G. White (Limitless Space Institute)
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