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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Hideo Higashi (Tohoku Univ), Hidemasa Yamano (JAEA)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1014-1019
An electromagnetic levitation technique performed in a static magnetic field was used to measure the density, surface tension, normal spectral emissivity, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity of molten SUS316L and SUS316L containing 5 mass% B4C. The addition of 5 mass% B4C to SUS316L yielded reductions of 111 K, 6%, 22%, and 8% in the liquidus temperature, density, normal spectral emissivity, and thermal conductivity at the liquidus temperature of SUS316L, respectively. Nevertheless, the heat capacity increased by 3% with this addition. Although the 5 mass% B4C addition had no clear effect on the surface tension, the sulfur dissolved in the SUS316L resulted in a significant decrease in the surface tension.