X-Energy Signs on to DOE ARDP for $80M in Initial Funding energycentral.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from energycentral.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
02 March 2021
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X-energy has signed the cooperation agreement which officially begins its participation in the US Department of Energy s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), a project the company says will enable it to build a commercial scale advanced nuclear reactor with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
X-energy s Xe-100 (Image: X-energy)
The company was announced by DOE in October 2020 as one of two awardees - the other being TerraPower - to receive USD80 million each of initial cost-shared funding to build an advanced reactor demonstration plant that can be operational within seven years. DOE selected X-energy to deliver a commercial TRISO fuel fabrication facility and a four-module version of its Xe-100 high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR), which the company plans to site at Energy Northwest’s Columbia nuclear plant. DOE will invest approximately USD1.23 billion in X-energy s project over the seven-year period.
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The Allure of TRISO Nuclear Fuel Explained
Tristructural isotropic (TRISO) particle fuel has long been used in high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactors, but it is seeing a resurgence as a result of other applications. Modern TRISO fuel designs are under consideration for an assortment of advanced reactors, including high-temperature reactors and microreactors, and even as accident-tolerant fuel for light water reactors.
In October 2020, when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it chose TerraPower and X-energy to each receive $80 million in initial federal funding under the agency’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to build their two distinct advanced nuclear reactors and begin operating them within seven years, the advanced reactor community was abuzz a
ANS task force calls for boost in federal R&D funding : Nuclear Policies world-nuclear-news.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from world-nuclear-news.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
18 February 2021
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A near doubling in annual federal appropriated funding levels for core nuclear research and development activities is needed to ensure the commercial deployment of US advanced reactors in the 2030s, a task force commissioned by the American Nuclear Society (ANS) has concluded. The group said the additional funding will help meet the Biden Administration s climate goals.
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The ANS Task Force on Public Investment in Nuclear Research and Development brought together over 20 technical experts - from US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, universities, private developers, utilities, suppliers and professional divisions within ANS. The Task Force is co-chaired by Mark Peters, executive vice president for Laboratory Operations at Battelle, and Christina Back, vice president of the Nuclear Technologies and Materials Division at General Atomics.