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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.
Yasuyuki Ogino, Keisuke Mukai, Juro Yagi, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 6 | August 2019 | Pages 487-492
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1611343
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Measurement of neutron flux and energy spectrum profile inside the blanket is required for fusion blanket design. An experiment using an imaging plate and activation materials (Dy, In, and Au) was performed to measure spatial distribution of neutron flux. Neutrons were generated by a discharge-type compact fusion neutron source whose neutron production rate was more than 107 n/s. A linearity between the total number of active nuclides made by neutron and photo-stimulated luminescence per area on the activation material was confirmed for three orders of magnitude. The relationships between the total number of decay of activation in the materials and the flux of the neutron in a simplified breeder assembly was measured and compared with the computation by MCNP.