In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) published a list of five nuclear energy stories to watch in 2022.
The US Department of Energy awarded USD40 million in funds for the six-year project to complete the basic design of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, which it says is instrumental in paving a path towards X-energy's multi-billion-dollar demonstration project and the USA's first commercial facility to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium-based fuel for next-generation reactors.
The US Department of Energy awarded USD40 million in funds for the six-year project to complete the basic design of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, which it says is instrumental in paving a path towards X-energy's multi-billion-dollar demonstration project and the USA's first commercial facility to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium-based fuel for next-generation reactors.
UPDATED: A site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has been selected as the site for the USA's first commercial high-assay low-enriched uranium-based fuel fabrication facility. Construction of the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, or TF3, is to begin this year, with commissioning and start-up as soon as 2025. The company has submitted a licence application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.