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BWXT Canada to supply fuel bundle hardware for fabrication of full-scale ANEEL demonstration fuel bundles at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.
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Mehul Shah (left), Clean Core Thorium Energy’s CEO & Founder, with John MacQuarrie (right), BWXT’s President of Commercial Operations, at the BWXT facility in Toronto
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CHICAGO, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) has taken another step toward the commercial demonstration of its ANEEL nuclear fuel platform through a fuel fabrication agreement with BWXT Canada Ltd. (BWXT). The agreement enables the fabrication of full-scale demonstration fuel bundles at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), bringing together the final manufacturing capabilities required to prepare ANEEL fuel for irradiation in an operating reactor.
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Under the agreement, BWXT Canada will supply qualified fuel bundle hardware that will be integrated with ANEEL fuel pellets and assembled into complete, reactor-representative fuel bundles at the CNL’s Chalk River Laboratories. The agreement establishes another key element of the manufacturing pathway supporting CCTE’s commercial demonstration program.
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Completing the Demonstration Supply Chain
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This collaboration establishes a clear pathway for fabricating ANEEL fuel in a form suitable for in-reactor testing.
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- CCTE provides the ANEEL fuel design and material specifications.
- BWXT Canada supplies the fuel bundle component hardware under the existing manufacturing QA Program.
- CNL fabricates ANEEL fuel pellets and carries out final full-bundle assembly for demonstration under established nuclear standards.
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Together, these roles enable the transition from validated fuel design to fully assembled fuel bundles ready for demonstration irradiation.
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“Sourcing materials from BWXT Canada represents an important step forward in demonstrating the viability of ANEEL fuel in existing reactor systems,” said Mehul Shah, CEO and Founder of Clean Core Thorium Energy. “Their decades of expertise in safe and reliable fuel fabrication, combined with deep experience with CANDU technology, combine to build a strong foundation for advancing our mission to deliver safer, more efficient nuclear energy solutions.”
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The assembled ANEEL fuel bundles will be used in a demonstration irradiation program to generate in-reactor performance data. This data will support regulatory qualification and future deployment of ANEEL fuel across compatible reactor platforms. By leveraging existing fuel formats and infrastructure, the program is designed to introduce thorium-based fuel into the current reactor fleet without requiring major reactor modifications. This collaboration ensures manufacturer’s fuel qualification for commercialization.
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The fabrication program builds on a series of technical milestones achieved by CCTE over the past year. CCTE recently completed accelerated irradiation testing of ANEEL fuel rodlets at Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor, achieving burnups exceeding 60 GWd/MTU. The company also published a comprehensive peer-reviewed engineering assessment in Nuclear Engineering and Design, a leading peer-reviewed journal in nuclear engineering published by Elsevier, demonstrating the fuel’s performance, safety characteristics and compatibility across multiple reactor applications.
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