Project Pele microreactor reaches key milestone with first TRISO fuel delivery
Delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to Idaho National Laboratory's Transient Reactor Test Facility marks a major step for Project Pele, a mobile microreactor prototype intended to supply resilient power for military operations. The fuel, known as tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) particle fuel, is fabricated from uranium, carbon and oxygen and formed into a small kernel. Thousands of these po