Categories: Nuclear Fuel, Technology & Innovation
For decades, the nuclear industry followed a familiar path: machining massive metal blocks into precise, safety critical components. This approach was reliable, but it came at a cost: slow production, significant material waste and limited design flexibility.
Categories: Operating Plants
The US nuclear energy industry faces significant challenges in attracting and retaining sufficient qualified workers to meet current and future needs of the industry. Based on projections of US demographic data, there will be a lack of available skilled workers, and demographic shifts will create a highly competitive labor market where the industry will vie for limited talent.
Categories: General Topics, AP1000
by Chris Stocker, Crane Nuclear
Categories: General Topics, AP1000
by Nathan Miller, CEO, Transco Products Inc.
Categories: General Topics
With its best-in-class uranium utilization and thermal margins, TRITON11® fuel, the most recent BWR fuel innovation from Westinghouse, offers utilities the power to improve fuel cycle cost savings and optimize operations. Each key aspect of the TRITON11 design has been carefully considered, analyzed and tested to meet customers’ current and anticipated operational requirements.
