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Industry Update—October 2025
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
New international partnership to speed Xe-100 SMR deployment
X-energy, Amazon, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and Doosan Enerbility have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO fuel in the United States to meet the power demands from data centers and AI. The partners will collaborate in reactor engineering design, supply-chain development, construction planning, investment strategies, long-term operations, and global opportunities for joint AI-nuclear deployment. The companies also plan to jointly mobilize as much as $50 billion in public and private investment to support advanced nuclear energy in the U.S.
Yu-Hung Shih, Mei-Ya Wang, Tsuey-Lin Tsai, Tsung-Kuang Yeh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2023 | Pages 92-103
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2102392
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Activated corrosion products deposited on the surfaces of fuel rods and pipelines contribute the majority of the radiation level in the primary system piping of a light water reactor and would have a significant impact on the safety of maintenance personnel or those involved in future decommissioning work. A computer model for site-specific applications, by the name of ACP_BWR, was developed to predict the distribution of activated corrosion products in the primary coolant circuit of a boiling water reactor (BWR). The prediction results were in reasonably good agreement with the data taken by periodic and in situ measurements at three locations after permanent shutdown of the BWR. Our analyses indicated that the 60Co, 54Mn, 58Co, and 59Fe activities in the core bypass, upper plenum, and lower downcomer regions were higher than those at other regions of the Chinshan Unit 1 reactor. Accordingly, the dose rates resulting from the activated corrosion products deposited at regions close to either side of the core shroud were comparatively high, surpassing those induced by neutron activation at these regions.