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Industry Update—October 2025
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
New international partnership to speed Xe-100 SMR deployment
X-energy, Amazon, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and Doosan Enerbility have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO fuel in the United States to meet the power demands from data centers and AI. The partners will collaborate in reactor engineering design, supply-chain development, construction planning, investment strategies, long-term operations, and global opportunities for joint AI-nuclear deployment. The companies also plan to jointly mobilize as much as $50 billion in public and private investment to support advanced nuclear energy in the U.S.
Rikizo Watanabe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July 1984 | Pages 69-74
A. Selection, Production, and Development of Alloys for HTGR Component | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33456
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A grain boundary precipitation treatment was studied for the purpose of improving the high-temper-ature low-cycle fatigue strength of a Ni-23% Cr- 18% W alloy, SSS113M, which had been developed as an intermediate heat exchanger material of very high temperature reactors and evaluated as the best alloy in the national R&D program of nuclear steelmaking in Japan. A conventional standard solution treatment of 1300°C × 1 h water quenched does not cause any grain boundary precipitation in SSS113M, but an additional heat treatment of 1250°C × 1 h causes discontinuous grain boundary precipitation of the alpha-tungsten phase. This grain boundary precipitation treatment results in two- to fivefold increases of low-cycle fatigue lives at 800°C as well as slight increases of the creep and stress rupture strength at 1000°C.