Rachael Smith

BWX Technologies announced this past week it reached a milestone in its capability to manufacture an advanced form of TRISO nuclear fuel, representing the next generation of fuel for advanced reactors.

TRISO fuel comprises carbon and silicon layers surrounding a uranium fuel kernel, a news release states.

The company’s Advanced Technologies subsidiary recently completed the installation and testing of a chemical vapor infiltration furnace which solidifies the pre-forms that are filled with TRISO particles. The CVI furnace completes the equipment necessary to execute BWXT’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) project with the U.S. Department of Energy.

With the existing TRISO manufacturing line, a previously commissioned binder jet for additive manufacturing and

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