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Work advances on X-energy’s TRISO fuel fabrication facility
Small modular reactor developer X-energy, together with its fuel-developing subsidiary TRISO-X, has selected Clark Construction Group to finish the building construction phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, known as TX-1, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. It will be the first of two Oak Ridge facilities built to manufacture the company’s TRISO fuel for use in its Xe-100 SMR. The initial deployment of the Xe-100 will be at Dow Chemical Company’s UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site on Texas’s Gulf Coast.
S. S. Glickstein, J. W. Beck, L. L. Wheat, W. J. Hall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 1 | October 1967 | Pages 137-143
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17250
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Fast advantage factor measurements and calculations have been performed in a single module seed blanket assembly containing a ThO2 blanket and a highly enriched uranium seed. Large variations were noted in the advantage factors, which were attributed to leakage effects due to the narrow seed region and the varying fast-neutron source distribution through the core. One-group, two- dimensional Monte Carlo calculations with the MARC program approximating the explicit core geometry are in agreement with the measured results. Calculations were also performed applying the principles of superposition and reciprocity to illustrate the dependence of the fast advantage factor on neutrons originating from various sections of a core.