Blue Capsule Technology Announces Cooperation on TRISO Fuel with Framatome

Blue Capsule Technology announces an agreement to advance its cooperation on fuel with French company Framatome. 

The term sheet agreement covers qualification of TRISO fuel particles for Blue Capsule.  It also includes manufacturing of fuel elements for the Blue Capsule high-temperature reactor. In parallel, Framatome announces the launch of new industrialisation and development capabilities for TRISO fuel at its Romans-sur-Isère site in France.  

“Blue Capsule’s high-temperature reactor (HTR) project has taken an important step forward with Framatome,” said Blue Capsule Technology president Edouard Hourcade. 

“Our HTR project is based on the idea that France, and Europe, with its world-class nuclear industry, needs a robust supply chain to best achieve its goal.”  

Blu Capsule Technology aims to deploy low-enriched TRISO fuel at less than 5% in our reactors, given the wide use of low-enriched uranium in the industry, and the export potential of reactors that use LEU.  

We are targeting energy-intensive industries, since the Blue Capsule HTR will produce industrial-grade heat and steam (and electricity if needed).  

These products are particularly suited for industry clusters and “inside-the-fence" industrial users such as the cement and alumina sectors, soda ash or steelmaking, or even synthetic fuel or hydrogen synthesis. 

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