Energy Department Announces First Pilot Project for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Lines
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Energy Department Announces First Pilot Project for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Lines
General Matter is enriching uranium for the US.
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General Matterx.comThe U.S. government is pushing hard to fund the development of fourth-generation SMRs and microreactors. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) has allocated billions of dollars to startups, including $1.2 billion to X-Energy and $2 billion to TerraPower. Similarly, the Pentagon recently selected BWXT to... See more
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Applications open for $900M in funding for SMRs
Applications opened this week for $900 million in funding from the Department of Energy to support the commercial deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactors in the US. The funding, authorized by the 2021 infrastructure law, will be distributed in two tiers: up to $800 million in
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This is a significant innovation that reduces the amount of radioactive waste produced while generating nuclear energy more efficiently, making transport use and long-term storage simple and preventing security risks associated with moving the waste and fission products from fuel forms into storage containers as in the past.