Standard Nuclear, Inc has received its first shipment of high-assay low-enriched uranium feedstock at its facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, under the US Department of Energy's initiative to fast-track the fuel supply chain for advanced reactors.
Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications.