Nuclear fuel company Clean Core Thorium Energy has signed an agreement with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories for the manufacture of demonstration irradiation bundles of its patented ANEEL thorium and high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel.
The Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed - built from the repurposed Experimental Breeder Reactor-II facility at Idaho National Laboratory - is now ready to host its first fuelled microreactor test campaign.
The award under the ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready programme will enable full-scale field testing of Deep Isolation's Universal Canister System.