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Ep 389: Bret van den Akker - Director of Fuel Cycle Innovation, Ultra Safe Nuclear

Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

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FCM Fuel Form

The reactor we have is a core that is made up of graphite blocks, I don't know about this height of these tables. And the pellets look very much like your typical uranium oxide pellets used for light water reactors. Our innovation is that we additively manufacture silken carbide cups and then fill them with trizo particles to create our fuel form.

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