The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than ...

Several high-temperature reactor developers have leveraged data from DOE-supported AGR TRISO fuel experiments. In tandem, the DOE has been working to establish a pilot-scale TRISO fuel ...

EDF is working hard to make sure the AGR fleet continues to be an important part of ... Westinghouse supplied the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957 and the company’s ...

The US has benefited from extending its own ageing reactor fleet, but its light water reactor technology replaces the graphite moderator and carbon dioxide gas coolant of the AGR design with ...

AGR reactors feature a graphite moderator and are cooled using carbon dioxide. The graphite blocks cannot be replaced or repaired during the operating life of the reactors. However, radiation damage ...

Hunterston B (Image: EDF Energy) The Hunterston B plant in Scotland comprises two 490 MWe AGR reactors - Reactors 3 and 4. Reactor 3 came online for the first time in February 1976, was initially ...

“The UK has deep roots in the relevant gas-cooled nuclear reactor technologies, exemplified by the current AGR reactors and tracing back to Dragon, the very first helium-cooled high-temperature ...

EDF said it aims to keep four advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) plants running longer than planned - Torness, Heysham 1 and 2 and Hartlepool - subject to regulatory approval and will make a ...

The last of the AGR reactors is expected to be defuelled and transferred to the NDA by 2035, though they may receive further life extensions. Hunterston worked for 20 years more than was ...

The Herald has revealed calls for the Torness nuclear power station to be shut down after it emerged an inspection found that Torness’s Reactor 1 had an estimated 585 cracks in its core bricks — ...

The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than ...