{"id":154132,"date":"2026-08-03T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/154132\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:55:25","slug":"ccte-announces-supply-agreement-with-bwxt-canada-to-support-commercial-reactor-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/154132\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTE Announces Supply Agreement with BWXT Canada to Support Commercial Reactor Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"

BWXT Canada to supply fuel bundle hardware for fabrication of full-scale ANEEL demonstration fuel bundles at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.<\/p>\n

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Mehul Shah (left), Clean Core Thorium Energy\u2019s CEO & Founder, with John MacQuarrie (right), BWXT\u2019s President of Commercial Operations, at the BWXT facility in Toronto<\/p>\n

CHICAGO, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2014 Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) has taken another step toward the commercial demonstration of its ANEEL nuclear fuel platform through a fuel fabrication agreement with BWXT Canada Ltd. (BWXT). The agreement enables the fabrication of full-scale demonstration fuel bundles at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), bringing together the final manufacturing capabilities required to prepare ANEEL fuel for irradiation in an operating reactor.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, BWXT Canada will supply qualified fuel bundle hardware that will be integrated with ANEEL fuel pellets and assembled into complete, reactor-representative fuel bundles at the CNL\u2019s Chalk River Laboratories. The agreement establishes another key element of the manufacturing pathway supporting CCTE\u2019s commercial demonstration program.<\/p>\n

Completing the Demonstration Supply Chain<\/p>\n

This collaboration establishes a clear pathway for fabricating ANEEL fuel in a form suitable for in-reactor testing.<\/p>\n

CCTE provides the ANEEL fuel design and material specifications.
\nBWXT Canada supplies the fuel bundle component hardware under the existing manufacturing QA Program.
\nCNL fabricates ANEEL fuel pellets and carries out final full-bundle assembly for demonstration under established nuclear standards.<\/p>\n

Together, these roles enable the transition from validated fuel design to fully assembled fuel bundles ready for demonstration irradiation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSourcing materials from BWXT Canada represents an important step forward in demonstrating the viability of ANEEL fuel in existing reactor systems,\u201d said Mehul Shah, CEO and Founder of Clean Core Thorium Energy. \u201cTheir decades of expertise in safe and reliable fuel fabrication, combined with deep experience with CANDU technology, combine to build a strong foundation for advancing our mission to deliver safer, more efficient nuclear energy solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The assembled ANEEL fuel bundles will be used in a demonstration irradiation program to generate in-reactor performance data. This data will support regulatory qualification and future deployment of ANEEL fuel across compatible reactor platforms. By leveraging existing fuel formats and infrastructure, the program is designed to introduce thorium-based fuel into the current reactor fleet without requiring major reactor modifications. This collaboration ensures manufacturer\u2019s fuel qualification for commercialization.<\/p>\n

The fabrication program builds on a series of technical milestones achieved by CCTE over the past year. CCTE recently completed accelerated irradiation testing<\/a> of ANEEL fuel rodlets at Idaho National Laboratory\u2019s Advanced Test Reactor, achieving burnups exceeding 60 GWd\/MTU. The company also published a comprehensive peer-reviewed engineering assessment<\/a> in Nuclear Engineering and Design, a leading peer-reviewed journal in nuclear engineering published by Elsevier, demonstrating the fuel\u2019s performance, safety characteristics and compatibility across multiple reactor applications.<\/p>\n

Together, these achievements establish the analytical, experimental and manufacturing foundation supporting the commercial demonstration of the ANEEL nuclear fuel platform.<\/p>\n

About ANEEL Fuel<\/p>\n

ANEEL is CCTE\u2019s nuclear fuel platform which includes fuel designs, patents and intellectual property, physical, high-burn up irradiation data, and advanced modeling. The fuel is a flexible design with a combination of thorium and enriched uranium that is a drop-in replacement for existing and new reactor designs including Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), Gen IV reactors, and Light Water Reactors (LWRs). This allows for integration into current reactor fleets without reactor or core design modifications. ANEEL is designed to achieve higher burnup and improved fuel utilization, with the potential to reduce long-lived spent fuel volumes per unit of energy generated and strengthen safety margins and proliferation resistance.<\/p>\n

About Clean Core Thorium Energy <\/p>\n

Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) is a US-based nuclear fuel company exploring thorium-driven nuclear innovations. Clean Core\u2019s patented nuclear fuel platform (called ANEEL) is designed, patented and tested for flexibility across configurations of thorium and enriched uranium (LEU to HALEU).This novel solution delivers significant benefits as compared to current fuels including improved safety margins and proliferation resistance, reduced waste, better economics and more in today\u2019s nuclear reactors. CCTE is developing the fuel and supply chains to support today\u2019s nuclear reactors and the future\u2019s nuclear scale up.<\/p>\n

Learn more at\u00a0https:\/\/cleancore.energy\/<\/a>. Follow us on social media: LinkedIn<\/a> and X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Media Contact
Milan Shah
Chief Operating Officer
info@cleancore.energy<\/a><\/p>\n

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/NewsRoom\/AttachmentNg\/3c7717ef-da26-4439-9b30-dac44f73e0d0<\/a><\/p>\n

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