BWXT awarded contract to expand TRISO nuclear fuel production line | WSET

BWXT awarded contract to expand TRISO nuclear fuel production line | WSET: LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) -- BWX Technologies, Inc. announced Wednesday, July 1 that its Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. subsidiary has been awarded a competitively bid contract by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to expand and upgrade its TRISO nuclear fuel manufacturing line. The $26 million, 20-month contract award will both expand BWXT’s TRISO capacity for the manufacture of TRISO fuel compacts as well as upgrade existing systems for delivering production-scale quantities of TRISO fuel.