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TVA and Entra1 to deploy 6 GW of NuScale SMRs
The Tennessee Valley Authority and Houston, Texas–based energy production company Entra1 Energy recently announced the signing of an agreement to collaborate on the deployment of six new nuclear power plants equipped with NuScale small modular reactors.
James Malone, Aaron Totemeier, Norton Shapiro, Swaminathan Vaidyanathan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 180 | Number 3 | December 2012 | Pages 437-442
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the Initial Release of MCNP6 / Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT12-A15354
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Lightbridge Corporation is developing an advanced metallic nuclear fuel capable of increasing the power output and extending the cycle length of current-generation light water reactors (LWRs). This paper provides a review of the unique geometry and composition of the metallic fuel and its application to power uprates in LWRs.
