NuScale Power Announces Fuel Handling and Storage Rack Contracts with Framatome

NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale) announced it has awarded two new contracts to Framatome to design fuel handling equipment and fuel storage racks for NuScale's VOYGR SMR power plant. This marks a critical supply chain and manufacturing development step, as NuScale fulfills customers' project timelines to deploy its groundbreaking technology by the end of the decade. "NuScale is proud to strengthen our relationship with Framatome, a renowned and widely respected international leader in nuclear energy," said Dale Atkinson, NuScale Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nuclear Officer. "This agreement showcases how NuScale's technology is meticulously developed with a premier international nuclear design and fabrication organization." Framatome will be partnering with American Crane and Orano to design and adapt its existing fuel handling equipment and high-density spent fuel storage rack designs to meet the needs of a NuScale VOYGR power plant.