As part of creating higher-burn-up gasoline for PHWRs, mixed oxide gasoline is being used experimentally in FBTR, which has been operating with a hybrid core of blended carbide and combined oxide gasoline (the high-Pu MOX forming 20% of the core). It started up about 1992 as a unit of BARC, and is seemingly being expanded to some 25,000 SWU/yr. In February 2009 Areva signed a memorandum of understanding with NPCIL to construct two, and later 4 extra, EPR models at Jaitapur, ...
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