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X-Energy Reactor Company and Paragon Energy Solutions have worked for two years to deliver, install and test the reactor protection system prototype, a key safety feature of X-energy’s Xe-100 advanced nuclear reactors.

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British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with X-energy of the USA to act as its deployment partner for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors in the UK. The UK plans to build an HTGR as the centrepiece of its Advanced Modular Reactor Research, Development & Demonstration Programme.

British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with X-energy of the USA to act as its deployment partner for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors in the UK. The UK plans to build an HTGR as the centrepiece of its Advanced Modular Reactor Research, Development & Demonstration Programme.

X-energy has delivered the first of four sets of equipment for the prototype reactor protection system (RPS) for the Xe-100 small modular reactor. The equipment, developed by X-energy and Rock Creek Innovations, will enable field testing, validation and optimisation, with results built into the final Xe-100 RPS design.  

How a HALEU bank could work Uranium highlighted on dark periodic table (klms/Shutterstock) Advanced nuclear power generation technologies that focus on modular construction, factory fabrication, shorter construction times, and passive safety could work in concert with renewable energy to deliver carbon-free electricity that will help meet energy demand while addressing the risk of climate change. There are currently over seventy projects to develop advanced nuclear technologies being pursued in...