QUALITY AND RELIABILITY IN NUCLEAR FUEL
As the demand for electricity increases throughout the world, Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU®) nuclear reactor operators can rely on the fuel manufactured by BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT). Our superior manufacturing practices ensure the highest levels of quality and reliability.
Produced at manufacturing facilities in Peterborough, Toronto and Arnprior, Ontario, the nuclear fuel bundles supplied by BWTX NEC have met the needs of a growing family of CANDU® stations since the early 1950s. BWXT NEC continues to actively participate in the design and development of CANDU® fuel and has supplied over half a million fuel bundles for reactors.
Utilizing state-of-the-art, automated manufacturing and inspection technologies, BWXT offers the optimum product quality, traceability and responsiveness demanded by our nuclear customers.
Our manufacturing and design practices are aimed at meeting our customers' exact needs. We continually strive to improve our processes and produce quality by leveraging programs such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing to meet the stringent requirements of reactor operating conditions. We are confident that our fuel options will continue to provide the high quality and reliability standards that today's CANDU® operators require.
FUEL PRODUCED BY BWXT
BWXT is able to produce fuel types to service the various CANDU® reactors operating today. Our current offering includes:
- CANDU® 37e regular
- CANDU® 37e long
- CANDU® 28e
We are working on the next generation of CANDU® fuel, CANAFLEX™ 43e, for the newly-designed Advanced CANDU® Reactor (ACR)
We are also able to supply other organizations with the fuel-manufacturing technology and equipment necessary to establish CANDU® fuel manufacturing products.