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US Nuclear Fuel Progress is a Mix Bag of Milestones

Ultra Safe Nuclear Inks Advanced Fuel Deal with Framatome

London, UK (SPX) Nov 29, 2023 - In a significant development for the nuclear energy sector, Framatome Inc. (Framatome) and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) have announced the establishment of a joint venture (JV) focused on m

French company Framatome is planning the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK as part of its plans to scale-up its operations in the country. In a separate development it also announced it was setting up a joint venture with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.

NRC Accepts NuScale Uprated 77 MWe SMR Application

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation announced that a technology breakthrough in its patented Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated fuel allows a fuel geometry that results in both higher power and increased safety, enabling its Micro-Modular Reactor to produce three times more power.

Days after Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced it would participate in a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants, the owner and

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. has opened a pilot fuel manufacturing facility that will produce TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) coated fuel particles and the

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation has declared open the Pilot Fuel Manufacturing facility, which will produce the first fuel for testing and qualification for use in the company's advanced Micro Modular Reactor. The plant will be the USA's first producer of private-sector TRISO and USNC's patented Fully Ceramic-Microencapsulated - or FCM - fuel.

New manufacturing plant for FCM® fuel qualification for U.S. advanced microreactors; factory uses advanced manufacturing process licensed from ORNL