Framatome successfully tested LEU fuel for FRM-II reactor

The French company Framatome, which is producing LEU fuel for the FRM-II reactor at the Technical University of Munich, successfully completed irradiation tests of the fuel. According to TUM, "two fuel plates made of a monolithic uranium-molybdenum alloy" were irradiated during two cycles in the BR-2 reactor at the Belgian research centre SCK CEN in Mol.