Global Nuclear Fuel, a GE Vernova-led alliance with Hitachi, said the first lead use assemblies of the new generation GNF4 boiling water reactor fuel have been contracted for deployment in 2026, with full reload quantities from 2030.
Requests for Proposals have been issued to build and power AI data centres at the Savannah River Site and the Oak Ridge Reservation.
The US regulator said the initial submissions from the company - which has just announced plans to go public - for a licence to build and operate four Westinghouse AP1000 reactors in Texas contain sufficient information on the reactor design.
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have begun post-irradiation studies on GE Vernova's high burnup fuel after it has spent six years in a commercial reactor.
Lightbridge Corporation has fabricated coupon samples using enriched uranium-zirconium alloy representative of the fuel material alloy composition it plans to use in its commercial next-generation fuel.