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Project Pele

Dec 7, 2022

BWXT begins production of fuel for 1st U.S. microreactor

Lynchburg-based BWX Technologies Inc. has begun producing the nuclear fuel that will power the first microreactor built and operated in the United States, the company announced Wednesday.  BWXT will manufacture a nuclear core for Project Pele under a $37 million award from the Idaho National Laboratory, as well as tristructural isotropic particle fuel, known as […]

Jun 9, 2022

BWXT subsidiary to build first U.S. nuclear microreactor

BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of  Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier BWX Technologies Inc., will build the first advanced nuclear microreactor in the United States under a $300 million contract awarded by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office, the company announced Thursday. In March 2021, BWXT was chosen as one of two […]

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