B&W AND TERRAPOWER ENTER INTO TWR SUPPORT AGREEMENT

B&W announced a partnership with TerraPower to provide design and support services for TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) design, according to a release issued yesterday. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding that said B&W will provide support services that may include “design and fabrication of engineered components; fuel fabrication process development, prototype fabrication, fuel services; reactor design engineering; reactor operations support; staff augmentation, both U.S. and foreign assignment; engineering services; flow loop testing; licensing support; and materials testing,” the release said. TerraPower is working on a TWR design that incorporates the use of depleted uranium as a fuel resource as a way to recycle the by-product fuel that is made during the enrichment process for current light water reactors. “B&W is privileged to be selected as a strategic supplier for the TerraPower development program,” said B&W President Joe Zwetolitz. “We have a long tradition of providing industry leading engineering, manufacturing and services and look forward to supporting TerraPower and to participating in the development of the next generation technology.”