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A new nuclear age for the US? X-energy reveals more on its 214,000-square-foot Tennessee plant with 5-metric-ton uranium capacity

Giant Tennessee project could quietly solve one of America's biggest problems

Tarun Mottlia

Via TechRadar

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A new nuclear age for the US? X-energy reveals more on its 214,000-square-foot Tennessee plant with 5-metric-ton uranium capacity
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X-energy has completed the main structure of its Tennessee fuel plant called TX-1

The facility could eventually produce 700,000 TRISO fuel pebbles annually

TX-1 will be America's first new commercial-scale advanced fuel facility in decades

X-energy has completed the main structure of TX-1, a nuclear fuel manufacturing facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The 214,000-square-foot plant, developed by subsidiary TRISO-X, represents the first commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility built domestically in over 50 years.

Clark Construction Group, the contractor handling…

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