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A Look Inside a Lab Making the Advanced Fuel to Power Growing US Nuclear Energy Ambitions

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Near signs that warn of radioactive risk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a half-dozen workers from the nuclear power company X-energy are making what appear to be gray billiard balls. Inside, they’re packed with thousands of tiny black spheres that each contain a speck of uranium enriched beyond what today’s power plants use. The United States is chasing a new age of nuclear power that banks on domestic production of re…
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TENNESSEE- Near signs warning about the radioactive risk at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, half a dozen workers at the X-energy nuclear power company are manufacturing what appear to be gray billiard balls. Inside, they are filled with thousands of small black spheres containing a pinch of enriched uranium beyond what current power plants use.

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Arkansas Business broke the news in on Monday, July 21, 2025.
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