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Lightbridge targets up to 20% reactor output gain with high-capacity steam generators

Lightbridge Corporation’s experimental fuel has a design target of raising power output by as much as 20% at existing reactors that switch to high-capacity steam generators. The company’s testing and licensing work is intended to determine whether the fuel can meet that target.

Antares, Last Energy, and Radiant hit DOE authorization milestones

The month of October saw three of the original Reactor Pilot Program companies hit a handful of milestones as each pursues Department of Energy authorization for the operation of various reactor projects. Both Last Energy and Radiant earned documented safety analyses (DSAs) for their first reactors, and Antares earned its nuclear safety design agreement (NSDA) for its second reactor.

Oklo to advance Groves 2 Forge as part of U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Launch Pad selection

Oklo Inc., an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced it would advance the Groves isotope production facility (Groves 2 Forge) as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative. Through the initiative, Oklo’s Groves 2 Forge will build on the demonstration experience from Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor while including capabilities to produce, process, and purify critical isotopes.

News Release Deployable Energy selected to test its nuclear battery at DOME

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Reactor Innovation Center selected Deployable Energy to test the company’s nuclear battery technology inside the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments, or DOME, testbed at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.

Lightbridge secures access to Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor Loop Facility to irradiate Clad Lightbridge Fuel rodlets under prototypic commercial reactor conditions

Lightbridge Corporation (“Lightbridge” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, today announced that it has entered into Project Task Statement (PTS) No. 2 under its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA), the U.S. Department of Energy's operating contractor for Idaho National Laboratory (INL), securing access to the loop testing facility of INL's Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) for the irradiation of clad Lightbridge Fuel™ rodlets.

Raven-Flint wins DOE backing for U.S. uranium conversion plant

Raven-Flint was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s NRIC Nuclear Energy Launch Pad to advance a domestic uranium conversion project. The company is developing a conversion process that does not use elemental fluorine.