USA begins first commercial testing of silicide fuel - World Nuclear News

USA begins first commercial testing of silicide fuel - World Nuclear News: Lead test assemblies of Westinghouse EnCore fuel rods containing uranium silicide fuel pellets have been loaded into a commercial nuclear power plant for the first time. The fuels, developed through the US Department of Energy's accident tolerant fuels programme, were loaded into Exelon's Byron unit 2 during a scheduled refuelling outage.