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/PRNewswire/ -- Former National Technical Director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Dr. Kurt A. Terrani has joined micro-reactor...
Follow Us We are first in your inbox with the most important news in the industry―keeping you smarter and one-step ahead in this ever-changing and competitive market.Start your free subscription The POWER Interview: USNC Making Headway on Advanced Nuclear Fuel In a brief interview this February, Francesco Venneri, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. CEO, explained to POWER why the company’s development of its proprietary fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel is significant for the future of advanced nuclear, and how the company plans to roll it out. Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp....
Follow Us We are first in your inbox with the most important news in the industry―keeping you smarter and one-step ahead in this ever-changing and competitive market.Start your free subscription 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 ...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has decided, with little input from the campus community and absolutely no input from the wider Champaign County community, to take on a vanity-driven project: to be the first university to commission a nuclear microreactor. Residents of Champaign County should soundly reject this reckless and dangerous project. The plan to build a nuclear power plant on campus has been sold as a shortcut to meeting campus carbon reduction goals. (You will notice that the original document does not call for nuclear power.) University administration needs a shor...