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Fuel innovation: Powering nuclear modernization

January 18, 2021, 9:35AMNuclear NewsBen Holtzman

Today’s U.S. commercial nuclear power plants are fueled with uranium dioxide pressed into cylindrical ceramic pellets—and have been for decades. These pellets are stacked inside long fuel rods made of a zirconium alloy cladding. Innovation in nuclear fuel, however, can improve safety, reduce operating costs, and further enable the development of a new generation of non-light-water reactors.

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NC State releases feasibility study for new research and test reactor

May 14, 2025, 7:01AMNuclear News

North Carolina State University has completed a feasibility study for its planned advanced research and test reactor. The $3 million study, which was undertaken by the university at the...

NRC hosting open house this week to discuss Vogtle plant performance

May 13, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding an in-person open house on Thursday, May 15, to discuss the 2024 safety performance of the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia....

Elementl and Google agree on site-first approach to three nuclear projects

May 9, 2025, 9:29AMNuclear News

Elementl Power Inc. is a “technology agnostic” nuclear project developer looking to bring more than 10 gigawatts of new nuclear power on line in the United States by 2035, and Google wants...

First concrete marks start of safety-related construction for Hermes test reactor

May 8, 2025, 3:01PMNuclear News

Kairos Power announced this morning that safety-related nuclear construction has begun at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., site where the company is building its Hermes low-power test reactor. Hermes, a...

What does the nuclear supply chain need now?

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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah

April 25, 2025, 6:31AMNuclear News

Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the...

DOE commits to supplying HALEU to five advanced nuclear companies

April 10, 2025, 9:30AMNuclear News

The Department of Energy has announced its first round of conditional commitments to provide high-assay low-enriched uranium to five U.S. nuclear developers. According to the DOE, the delivery...

Framatome opens new fuel workshop for research reactors and medical targets

April 24, 2025, 7:56AMNuclear News

Framatome announced that it has inaugurated a new workshop dedicated to the fabrication of fuel for research reactors and targets for medical isotopes at the company’s Romans-sur-Isère site...

Fuel innovation: Powering nuclear modernization

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