France-Based Nuclear Startup Blue Capsule Announces Cooperation On Triso Fuel With Framatome

Agreement ‘an important step forward’ for high-temperature reactor project

France-Based Nuclear Startup Blue Capsule Announces Cooperation On Triso Fuel With Framatome
Blue Capsule president Edouard Hourcade (right, with microphone) and Alain Frichet, Framatome’s vice-president, products and technologies division, announce the agreement at WNE 2025. Courtesy Jagacomms.

France-based advanced nuclear reactor startup Blue Capsule Technology has announced an agreement to advance their cooperation on fuel with French company Framatome.

The company said the term sheet agreement covers qualification of Triso fuel particles for Blue Capsule.

It also includes manufacturing of fuel elements for the Blue Capsule high-temperature reactor.

Framatome has said it plans launch new industrialisation and development capabilities for Triso fuel at its Romans-sur-Isère site in southern France.

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