The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) will be the nation’s first 10 CFR 70 Category II fuel facility dedicated exclusively to fueling HALEU based reactors

The cross-cutting TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility will be commissioned in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.

X-energy has delivered the first of four divisions of equipment for an Xe-100 Reactor Protection System (RPS) prototype, marking a significant milestone in the company’s efforts under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).

X-energy’s TRISO-X team was selected following a competitively bid process to produce fuel for Idaho National Lab’s (INL) Space Nuclear Program.

The UK government has announced during the 2021 Nuclear Industry Association annual conference that it has chosen high-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs) as its preferred advanced nuclear reactor technology.

The U.S. Congress and the Administration continue to demonstrate their leadership in recognizing that advanced nuclear energy is an important carbon-free base-load power source that will allow the US and the world to achieve global carbon reductions by 2050.

X-energy and Centrus Energy Corp. announced that preliminary design of X-energy’s TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility has been completed and that the companies have signed a contract for Centrus to continue its work as the project enters its next phase.

X-energy Provides Fuel Fabrication Services as part of DARPA’s DRACO Program. X-energy will develop key fuel fabrication processes in support of a first-of-a-kind rocket powered by nuclear thermal propulsion.

X-energy expands TRISO-X as a subsidiary to commercialize its Advanced Nuclear Fuel. TRISO-X will commercially develop its proprietary tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel for the burgeoning advanced nuclear energy sector.

As CNO of X-energy, Mr. Vanderheyden is responsible for leading X-energy’s efforts to safely deploy X-energy’s generation 4+ High Temperature Gas Reactor plants in North America and Internationally.