Areva has announced a quarter-billion-dollar deal to supply fuel to three reactors at Browns Ferry owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The deal made public Thursday covers nine fuel loads, as well as "core monitoring technology" and other services, according to a release from the French company's U.S. subsidiary. Areva has supplied fuel to the plant for the last decade, and the new contract covers deliveries starting in 2017. The contract provides for fuel assemblies using the company's Atrium 10XM design, as well as an option to use the new Atrium 11 design, with the fuel manufactured in Richland, Wash. The contract comes on the heels of a similar boiling water reactor fuel deal with Xcel Energy's Monticello plant in Minnesota.
Browns Ferry in Alabama is one of the country's largest nuclear power facilities. It generates 3,300 megawatts from three General Electric type 4 boiling water reactors first licensed in the mid-1970s.