Uranium & Fuel

TerraPower / Bill Gates Company Urges US To Downblend HEU For Advanced Reactors

By David Dalton
29 August 2022

Temporary solution would ‘help reduce reliance on Russia’
Bill Gates Company Urges US To Downblend HEU For Advanced Reactors
TerraPower is planning to build its first Natrium nuclear plant at a coal site in Wyoming. Courtesy TerraPower.
With Russian uranium no longer viable, now is the time to seriously explore downblending highly enriched uranium (HEU) sources as a plausible way to garner the fuel needed for the initial cores of reactors being deployed this decade, US-based reactor technology company TerraPower said.

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