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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
Volker Scholten, Manfred Timm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 2 | April 1978 | Pages 178-186
Technical Paper | Low-Temperature Nuclear Heat / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32010
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The basic aim of the survey is to determine the state of development and planning of these types of district systems. In the western world, there is a wide variance of capacity, but it can be stated generally that those countries that developed systems early have a substantial lead in technology. Development in the eastern bloc is largely parallel to that of the west in that most work has been undertaken during the post-war period. World events have played their part, notably the oil crisis of 1973, which has led to more rational energy policies and usage, in addition to the consideration of alternative primary fuel sources. While this quest for other energy reserves continues, most countries are turning to indigenous fuels. This, of course, leads, wherever possible, to partial fuel independence, a state that is more pronounced in the eastern bloc. At present, the Federal Republic of Germany has the largest connected public system in the west, although in terms of megawatts per thousand inhabitants, Scandinavia comes out ahead. Obviously, information from eastern Europe is difficult to obtain, although it is known that substantial district heating systems are in existence in the bloc. As far as heat production is concerned, there are two systems: