BWXT Begins $4.9 Million TRISO Nuclear Fuel Production Campaign
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – Jan. 24, 2022) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today it has been awarded a $4.9 million contract amendment by Battelle Energy Alliance LLC to manufacture TRISO nuclear fuel. BEA manages Idaho National Laboratory on behalf of the Department of Energy. The award amends a competitively bid base award announced in July […]
BWXT Delivers Fuel to NASA to Support Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – Dec. 13, 2021) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) has reached a critical milestone in the nation’s pursuit of space nuclear propulsion by delivering coated reactor fuels to NASA in support of its space nuclear propulsion project within the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is one of the […]
BWXT to Restart Existing TRISO Nuclear Fuel Production Line and Expand Capacity
Company to hireup to 60 new workers to attain increased production targets (LYNCHBURG, Va. – Oct. 2, 2019) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that it is in the process of restarting its existing TRISO nuclear fuel production line and is planning to expand its existing capacity within approximately 12 months. The expansion […]
BWXT Awarded TRISO Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Contract. Production to be Completed by the Fall of 2020
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – March 11, 2020) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that its BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (NOG) subsidiary has been awarded a contract from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to manufacture TRISO nuclear fuel to support the continued development of the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR). BWXT […]
BWXT Advancing TRISO Line Restart With Solution Production
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – December 18, 2019) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that its TRISO nuclear fuel manufacturing restart activities are progressing ahead of schedule. BWXT technicians are now producing uranium solutions for TRISO fuel as the company moves forward with its previously announced plans to restart its manufacturing line and increase capacity at its […]
BWXT to Restart Existing TRISO Nuclear Fuel Production Line and Expand Capacity
Company to hireup to 60 new workers to attain increased production targets (LYNCHBURG, Va. – Oct. 2, 2019) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that it is in the process of restarting its existing TRISO nuclear fuel production line and is planning to expand its existing capacity within approximately 12 months. The expansion […]
BWXT Announces $2.1 Billion in Price Agreements for Naval Nuclear Reactor Components and Fuel
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – Feb. 11, 2019) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that two of its subsidiaries, BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (BWXT NOG), and Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS), have reached price agreement with the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program on new contracts totaling approximately $2.1 billion, including future-year options, for the manufacture […]
BWXT Subsidiary Awarded Six-Year, $505 Million Contract for Highly Enriched Uranium Downblending Services
LYNCHBURG, Va. – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that its Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) subsidiary was awarded a contract valued at $505 million for the downblending of 20.2 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to produce low enriched uranium (LEU) suitable for use as commercial nuclear reactor fuel and for national defense […]
BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Awarded CA$168 Million Contract Extension for OPG Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing
(PETERBOROUGH, Ontario – March 12, 2018) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. (BWXT NEC) has been awarded a CA$168 million, five-year contract extension to manufacture fuel for Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Darlington and Pickering nuclear generating stations. The deal extends BWXT NEC’s current fuel manufacturing arrangement […]
BWXT Awarded CA$18.6 Million Contract for Nuclear Power Plant Tube Fabrication
(PETERBOROUGH, Ontario – February 2, 2018) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that its subsidiary BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. (BWXT NEC) has been awarded a CA$18.6 million, four-year contract to manufacture zircaloy-4 seamless tubes for Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA (SNN), which operates the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania. “This contract is an […]
