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Construction begins on X-energy’s Oak Ridge advanced fuel facility
Small modular reactor developer X-energy and its subsidiary TRISO-X announced yesterday the start of above-ground construction for its TX-1 advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The first-in-the-nation facility will be the first of two Oak Ridge facilities built to manufacture the company’s TRISO fuel for use in its Xe-100 small modular reactor.
Pi-En Tsai, Lawrence H. Heilbronn (Univ of Tennessee)
Transactions | Volume 112 | Number 1 | June 2015 | Pages 624-627
