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Lightbridge Corporation's Advanced Metallic Fuel for Light Water Reactors

James Malone, Aaron Totemeier, Norton Shapiro, Swaminathan Vaidyanathan

Nuclear Technology / Volume 180 / Number 3 / December 2012 / Pages 437-442

Technical Paper / Special Issue on the Initial Release of MCNP6 / Materials for Nuclear Systems / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT12-A15354

Lightbridge Corporation is developing an advanced metallic nuclear fuel capable of increasing the power output and extending the cycle length of current-generation light water reactors (LWRs). This paper provides a review of the unique geometry and composition of the metallic fuel and its application to power uprates in LWRs.