Ageing nuclear assets don't have to mean higher maintenance costs. Discover how HVTS® cladding helps extend the life of PWR secondary system components, reduce outage duration, support ALARA principles, and protect against FAC, erosion-corrosion and other degradation mechanisms. Learn more.

October 17, 2022, 12:00PMNuclear News

Government officials and representatives of X-energy and its TRISO-X subsidiary at the October 13 groundbreaking. (Photo: X-energy)

Leaders of X-energy and its TRISO-X subsidiary gathered on October 13 to break ground at the site of what X-energy bills as “North America’s first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility” in Oak Ridge, Tenn. X-energy expects the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) to create more than 400 jobs and to be commissioned and operational by 2025.

To continue reading, log in or create a free account!

Global 2026 draws attention to nuclear fuel developments

August 24, 2026, 12:21PMNuclear News

Last week in Chicago, the American Nuclear Society’s Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division hosted Global 2026, where it was abundantly clear that there are many exciting fuel-related...

X-energy, TerraPower share updates on advanced reactor projects

August 17, 2026, 7:11AMNuclear News

The two main players of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, X-energy and TerraPower, have both announced significant developments in their projects to deploy...

DOE’s Marla Morales talks with ANS’s Craig Piercy

August 19, 2026, 3:40PMANS News

A recent American Nuclear Society webinar featured an extended one-on-one conversation between ANS CEO Craig Piercy and Marla Morales, the acting deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and...

Kinectrics to assess Clean Core’s fuel qualification program

August 19, 2026, 10:03AMNuclear News

Clean Core Thorium Energy announced that BWX Technologies–owned Kinectrics will conduct an independent technical review of its ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel...

Study mapping U-10Zr porosity informs metallic fuel design

August 17, 2026, 12:28PMNuclear News

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have conducted a three-dimensional study of irradiated U-10Zr—uranium alloyed with 10 percent...

New measurement of diamond phase change could mean increased ICF energy gain

August 14, 2026, 2:10PMNuclear News

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have measured how diamond melts under extreme pressures, resolving a long-standing discrepancy between experiment and theory. In inertial...

Centrus, X-energy sign enrichment contract as TRISO-X expands TX-1 campus

August 7, 2026, 11:57AMNuclear News

Centrus Energy Corp. will be providing X-energy with enrichment services for low-enriched uranium and high-assay, low-enriched uranium to support X-energy’s planned deployments of Xe-100...

DOE funds ORNL and Kyoto Fusioneering test facility

August 13, 2026, 1:49PMNuclear News

Yesterday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that the Department of Energy has committed funding to develop a fusion breeding blanket test facility at the lab in partnership with Kyoto...

Sandia enters into SPP with Elemental

August 13, 2026, 7:10AMNuclear News

On August 11, Elemental Nuclear announced that the Department of Energy, through Sandia National Laboratories, approved its entrance into a Strategic Partnership Project. The SPP will support...

Calif. officials urge Diablo Canyon extension, but Newsom holding off

August 11, 2026, 3:54PMNuclear News

Dozens of elected officials in California are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature to act this year to extend operations at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant past 2030....

TRISO-X breaks ground on Oak Ridge fuel facility as licensing work continues

Related Articles