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GE Research to Receive $6.4 Million in ARPA-E Funding to Advance Used Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Technology

GE’s solution will use novel sensors and imaging techniques with an AI-driven Digital Twin of the fuel reprocessing facility utilizing Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technology to enable real-time tracking of used fuel materials inside the facility with added safeguards and data securitization.Being able to measure nuclear material composition in real time has the potential to save facility operators hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from reduced downtime per year, while increasing the amount of used fuel that can be reprocessed.GE research
BWRX-300 SMR rendering

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Northern Light: Next-Gen Nuclear Reactors Draw Interest In Sweden

Ever since last December, when Canada’s Ontario Power Generation selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to build the first grid-scale small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) and bring it online by the end of the decade, the technology has been in the news. The latest country interested in the technology is Sweden.
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Small Reactors, Big Potential: TVA’s New Nuclear Program Enters Discussion To Support GE Hitachi Technology

The United States, like many industrialized countries, has pledged to reduce its net carbon emissions, and, like others, the U.S. has been boosting renewables, exploring the use of hydrogen for power generation, switching to natural gas and modernizing its grid. Now the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to add to the mix a powerful new source: small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, which can be deployed faster than conventional ones and at a lower cost per unit of output.