Category: Nuclear Technology

Kairos Power Joins With Bruce Power, Constellation, Southern Company and TVA to Form Advanced Nuclear Development Consortium

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April 20, 2022 – Kairos Power has assembled leading North American utilities and generating companies to launch an advanced nuclear development consortium named Kairos Power Operations, Manufacturing and Development Alliance (Kairos Power-OMADA) to advance the development of the company’s advanced fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR) technology. Current member corporations include: Bruce Power, Canada’s only private sector nuclear …

BWXT Advancing Microreactor Design Project

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U.S. Department of Energy ARDP Contracting Finalized; On Track to Deliver TRISO Fuel for Testing (LYNCHBURG, Va. – April 11, 2022) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) is proceeding apace to deliver microreactors to commercial power and industrial customers in cooperation with Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The company’s BANR (BWXT Advanced Nuclear …

Bruce Power to explore feasibility of using excess energy for hydrogen production

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Today, as part of Ontario’s hydrogen strategy, Bruce Power is announcing plans to explore opportunities to leverage optimized site output for potential hydrogen production in partnership with companies within the Clean Energy Frontier region. “Through our Life-Extension Program we are providing Ontario residents and businesses with a long-term supply of clean, reliable electricity and life-saving …

Tennessee site selected for advanced reactor fuel facility

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A site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been selected as the site for the USA’s first commercial high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)-based fuel fabrication facility. Construction of the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, or TF3, is to begin this year, with commissioning and start-up as soon as 2025. Xe-100 developer X-energy announced on 4 April that its …

Ministers confident of funding new nuclear power ‘considerably cheaper’ as part of energy strategy

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Changes to nuclear funding model and desire for greater energy security behind big bet on nuclear Ministers are increasingly confident of being able to fund a set of new nuclear power stations at a fraction of previous costs as the Government prepares to make nuclear power the centre point of its energy strategy this week. …

US energy developer backed by a fund linked to Elon Musk the latest that wants to build nuclear power plant in Wales

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A company backed by investor in Elon Musk’s businesses is the latest to say that it wants to build a nuclear power plant in Wales. Last Energy is now the third company that wants to build nuclear power plants in Wales, having settled on a not yet named site within the country. They would join …

Britain could build seven nuclear power stations, minister says

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Britain could build up to seven new nuclear power stations as part of a radical expansion of homegrown energy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told The Sunday Telegraph. “There is a world where we have six or seven sites in the UK” by 2050, Kwarteng told the newspaper. The Sunday Telegraph …