{"id":892,"date":"2026-02-14T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/triso-x-secures-first-ever-nrc-category-ii-license-for-commercial-advanced-nuclear-fuel-fabrication\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:31:51","slug":"triso-x-secures-first-ever-nrc-category-ii-license-for-commercial-advanced-nuclear-fuel-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/triso-x-secures-first-ever-nrc-category-ii-license-for-commercial-advanced-nuclear-fuel-fabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"TRISO-X Secures First-Ever NRC Category II License for Commercial Advanced Nuclear Fuel Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a milestone for the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Feb. 13 issued its first approval of a commercial Category II nuclear fuel fabrication facility, granting a license to TRISO-X, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-energy, which allows the company to fabricate commercial tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel using high-assay low-enriched [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/triso-x-secures-first-ever-nrc-category-ii-license-for-commercial-advanced-nuclear-fuel-fabrication\/\">TRISO-X Secures First-Ever NRC Category II License for Commercial Advanced Nuclear Fuel Fabrication<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Vertical construction at TRISO-X\u2019s TX-1 fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, began Nov. 17, 2025. On Feb. 13, 2026, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the first-ever U.S. approval of a Category II fuel fabrication facility for the project. Courtesy: X-energy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x-energy-preview-3-tf3.webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x-energy-preview-3-tf3.webp 1500w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x-energy-preview-3-tf3-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x-energy-preview-3-tf3-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x-energy-preview-3-tf3-768x512.webp 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a milestone for the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Feb. 13 issued its first approval of a commercial Category II nuclear fuel fabrication facility, granting a l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}