Article from World Nuclear News

Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas (GNF-A) and TerraPower are to build the Natrium Fuel Facility at GNF-A’s existing site in North Carolina. The facility is part of a major expansion to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH) Wilmington operations that will also support commercial deployment of the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR).

The Natrium Fuel Facility will be jointly funded by TerraPower and the US Department of Energy through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The facility “represents an investment of more than USD200 million,” according to GE. Construction of the fuel facility, which will use high-assay low enriched uranium, is expected to begin in 2023.

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