GNF awarded $250 million contract to fuel Entergy BWRs

• 6 years ago (2018-05-28)
• David Flin

North America 1004 Nuclear 643

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Global Nuclear Fuel has announced that it has been awarded a long-term contract by Entergy Nuclear to continue to fuel its boiling water reactors. The new fuel supply contract, valued at more than $250 million, runs from 2019 through 2031 and includes 10 reloads of GNF3. Entergy will be the first customer to take delivery of GNF3 in reload quantities.

Amir Vexler, CEO of GNF, said: “Entergy and GNF have a long history of working together, but it is the opportunity to support the Entergy Nuclear fleet’s bright future that makes us excited about this new agreement. With this extended period of fuel reloads, we are pleased to be in a position to continue our long-standing relationship with Entergy by fuelling their BWRs for the next decade with GNF3, our newest and most advanced fuel product.”

GNF said that the GNF3 fuel assembly is designed to offer improved fuel cycle economics, increased performance and flexibility in operation, and further improve on the reliability of GNF’s previous product lines.

GNF3 lead use assemblies have been operating in several US nuclear power plants, including four lead use assemblies in Entergy’s River Bend Nuclear Station in St Francisville, Louisiana since 2015.

In 2019, Entergy’s River Bend nuclear facility will become the first plant in which GNF3 will be installed in reload quantities. GNF3 will be installed in reload quantities at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 2020.

GNF3 is fabricated at the company’s facility in Wilmington, North Carolina.