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Frady named CROET president, CEO

Posted at 10:29 am February 1, 2022
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Teresa Frady

Teresa Frady has been named president and chief executive officer of the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee.

CROET is a regional economic development nonprofit organization that helps find new uses for U.S. Department of Energy facilities and property, including at sites that are no longer used or needed. The goal is to spur private development and create jobs.

Frady’s appointment was announced during the January meeting of the CROET Board of Directors. She replaces Lawrence Young, who is retiring after serving more than 26 years as CROET’s president and CEO.

“I am so pleased that Teresa has accepted the challenge of leading CROET into its next phase,” Young said in a press release. “Teresa has been an integral part of the success of the organization, and I am confident that she, as my successor, will enhance upon the legacy established by the organization’s founders.”

Frady began her career with CROET 22 years ago, the press release said. She has risen through the ranks with increasing responsibility by serving in such roles as account manager, accountant, chief accountant, chief operating officer, and executive director.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Business, CROET, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Roane County, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee, CROET, East Tennessee Technology Park, Heritage Center, K-25 site, Kairos Power, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pilot fuel manufacturing, Roane County, Teresa Frady, test reactor, U.S. Department of Energy, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation

Test reactor could be built at Oak Ridge, Idaho

Posted at 12:08 pm August 6, 2019
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sign
Photo by ORNL

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory are being considered as potential sites for a test reactor, where fuels and materials could be tested for new types of nuclear power reactors.

It’s not clear where the test reactor would be built at ORNL, if it’s built there.

The fast-neutron reactor, called the Versatile Test Reactor, would be sodium-cooled and small, about 300 megawatts thermal. It would be based on the GE Hitachi PRISM power reactor. That’s a small module design based on the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II, which operated for more than 30 years in Idaho, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a notice published in the Federal Register on Monday. (Fast neutrons are highly energetic neutrons that travel at speeds ranging from tens to thousands of kilometers per second.)

The Versatile Test Reactor would be a pool-type reactor and use metal alloy fuels that could include uranium, plutonium, zirconium and other alloying metals. It would not be a power reactor, and it would not generate electricity. It could generate at least 4×1015 neutrons per square centimeter per second.

Reactor operations could start as early as the end of 2026, DOE said. Fuel for the reactor could be fabricated at Idaho National Laboratory or the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

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Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: DOE, EIS, environmental impact statement, fast neutron, Federal Register, GE Hitachi PRISM power reactor, Idaho National Laboratory, National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, nuclear power reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Rick Perry, Rita Baranwal, Savannah River Site, test reactor, thermal neutron, U.S. Department of Energy, Versatile Test Reactor

ORNL, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics cooperate on salt-cooled reactors

Posted at 7:48 pm March 22, 2015
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leave a Comment

ORNL and SINAP Salt-cooled Test Reactors

Representatives from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) met at ORNL to discuss plans for building a salt-cooled test reactor. Pictured in front of ORNL’s molten salt test loop are (from left) David Felde, ORNL; Yang Zou, SINAP; Guanyuan Wu, SINAP; Xiaohan Yu, SINAP; Naxiu Wan, SINAP; Zhimin Dai, SINAP; David Holcomb, ORNL; Kun Chen, SINAP; Kevin Robb, ORNL; Mike Laufer, University of California at Berkeley; Guimin Liu, SINAP; and Weiju Ren, ORNL. (Photo courtesy ORNL)

 

Representatives from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics met at ORNL last week as part of an agreement between the two institutions to work together on the advancement of salt-cooled nuclear reactor technologies.

At the meeting, SINAP staff members were expected to describe their plans for building the first salt-cooled test reactor, and the two sides began planning the next steps in the shared research project.

The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, between ORNL and SINAP focuses on accelerating scientific understanding and technical development of salt-cooled reactors, specifically fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors, or FHRs. The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Advanced Reactor Technologies Program, CAS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperative research and development agreement, CRADA, DOE, FHR, FHR test reactor, fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors, memorandum of understanding, Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, Nuclear Energy Sciences and Technologies Cooperation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Nuclear Energy, ORNL, salt-cooled nuclear reactor, salt-cooled reactors, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, SINAP, test reactor, U.S. Department of Energy

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