Triga International, a joint-venture between French nuclear fuel cycle company Framatome and US energy and defence corporation General Atomics, has been awarded a contract to fabricate fuel for the US Department of Energy’s Marvel microreactor.

The contract was awarded through Battelle Energy Alliance, which operates the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho.

The fuel, used in Triga research reactors, will be manufactured at Framatome’s dedicated Triga manufacturing facility at Romans-sur-Isère, near Grenoble in southeast France, “in line with the schedule of the Marvel project”, Framatome said.