The fuel facility’s previous SNM–1097 license allowed GNF to possess and use U-235 enriched up to 5% for commercial nuclear power fuel fabrication. “These regulatory milestones build on our ...

It has also approved licensing topical reports for advanced nuclear methods that enable GNF to analyse fuel with enrichments greater than 5% by weight. U-235 is the main fissile isotope of uranium.

Using X-energy's operating commercial-scale TRISO production equipment and GNF's licensed nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, the arrangement is expected to produce TRISO ...