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Lightbridge enters 7-year strategic partnership with Idaho National Lab for fuel development
LIGHTBRIDGE Corp
- Signed umbrella SPP and CRADA with Battelle Energy Alliance (INL/DOE) for 7-year initial term.
- Initial phase: irradiation testing of Lightbridge's delta-phase U-Zr alloy fuel samples in ATR with DOE-supplied enriched uranium.
- Subsequent phases include post-irradiation examination, loop testing in ATR, and transient experiments in TREAT.
- Data will support fuel performance modeling and licensing for commercial deployment of Lightbridge Fuel.
- CEO Seth Grae calls it a major milestone and foundation for advancing critical path fuel development.