BWX Technologies
also known as BWXT
At BWXT, we deliver innovative nuclear solutions to create a better world. Our uniquely skilled workforce builds the systems that power the U.S. Navy’s submarine and aircraft carrier fleet; restores the natural environment at government nuclear sites; supplies the components and fuel for clean energy to power homes and businesses in Canada and around the world; produces life-saving nuclear medicin
71 in this dataset · 22 in this dataset
7 developers pursuing it
103 organisations in US
What these terms mean
Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.
- Reactor developer
- Develops a fission reactor design. Carries no implication that anything is licensed, funded or built.
- Supplier
- Supplies components, materials or fuel to the sector without developing a reactor or device of its own.
- Fission
- Advanced and small modular fission reactor developers, plus established reactor vendors.
- Fuel cycle
- Mining, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, reprocessing, waste and tritium supply.
- High-temperature gas-cooled reactor › › High-temperature gas-cooled reactor
- Helium-cooled and graphite-moderated, running far hotter than a water reactor. The high outlet temperature suits industrial process heat as well as electricity.
- High-assay low-enriched uranium
- 5–20% U-235. The binding supply constraint for most advanced reactor designs.
- TRISO particle fuel
- Fuel kernels wrapped in layers of carbon and silicon carbide, each particle its own containment vessel. Retains fission products to very high temperature.
In BWX Technologies’s own words
Quoted from the organisation’s own site as we archived it. Their description of themselves, not ours, and not a claim this site has checked.
At BWXT, we deliver innovative nuclear solutions to create a better world . Our uniquely skilled workforce builds the systems that power the U.S. Navy’s submarine and aircraft carrier fleet; restores the natural environment at government nuclear sites; supplies the components and fuel for clean energy to power homes and businesses in Canada and around the world; produces life-saving nuclear medicine; and is revolutionizing reactors and fuels to provide next-generation capabilities for life on Earth and exploration across the universe.
The products and services described herein are provided by subsidiaries of BWX Technologies, Inc.
We have proudly manufactured naval nuclear components and reactors since the 1950s – we designed and fabricated components for the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine.
We are capitalizing on the capabilities of our unique manufacturing facilities to meet the world’s growing energy demands through nuclear power.
We are making significant contributions to a cleaner future environment through our involvement with the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management projects.
Where BWX Technologies sits
Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.
BWX Technologies is one of 7 organisations in this dataset pursuing htgr.
It is one of 103 we hold in US.
Related organisations
Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.
Pursuing the same technology
Others in this dataset working on High-temperature gas-cooled reactor.
Sources
A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.