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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.
Yu. Gordienko, Yu. Ponkratov, T. Kulsartov, I. Tazhibayeva, Zh. Zaurbekova, Ye. Koyanbayev, Ye. Chikhray, I. Kenzhina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 6 | August 2020 | Pages 703-709
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1777667
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This paper describes the facilities of the Institute of Atomic Energy of the National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan (IAE NNC RK) (Kurchatov, Kazakhstan) designed to conduct studies on the interaction of hydrogen isotopes with materials of nuclear and fusion reactors with and without neutron irradiation. Experiments with sample irradiation are carried out at the LIANA facility, which is located at the IVG.1M reactor. The VIKA and TiGrA installations are designed to conduct experiments with materials before or after irradiation using the temperature-programmed desorption spectroscopy (VIKA), thermogravimetry, and differential scanning calorimetry (TiGrA) methods. The main results of some experimental studies are also presented.