TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TX-1) Part 70 special nuclear material licence (Category II HALEU TRISO fuel): NRC fuel-cycle licence review for TRISO-X, LLC — issued, 38.9 months from docketing to decision. Sourced dates and schedule.

Background: NRC reactor licensing process, explained · The ADVANCE Act, explained: what changed and where the NRC stands

Current state

Type	Fuel-cycle licence
Outcome	Issued
Applicant	TRISO-X, LLC
Facility	TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility, Horizon Center, Oak Ridge (Roane County), Tennessee
Docket	70-7027
Submitted	2022-04-05
Docketed (accepted for review)	2022-11-18
NRC planned schedule	30 months
NRC target date	—
Final safety evaluation	—
Decision	2026-02-13
Review time (docketed → decision)	38.9 mo
Submitted → decision	46.3 mo
NRC-reported review duration	—
NRC-reported resources vs estimate	—

Review time is measured in average months from the date the NRC docketed the application to the decision. The NRC's own reported durations may measure to the final safety evaluation instead.

Notes

NRC target decision: 2025-06 (original); 2026-05-29 (revised 2025-03-14) (month only). Phased submittal: SAR 2022-04-05 ahead of ER 2022-09-23 under an exemption; NRC facility page says SAR "received on April 12 and updated November 8, 2022". Major application revision (HALEU feedstock changed to uranyl nitrate, capacity increase) submitted Dec 30, 2024 / Jan 31, 2025; NRC schedule letter says 14 of 20 safety review areas "were paused for 10 months" and the environmental review "paused for 13 months" awaiting the revision, and six areas were paused over high-impact technical issues. Revised schedule exceeded the NEIMA 3-year generic milestone (November 17, 2025). No contested hearing (hearing notice 2023-02-03). Spans the ADVANCE Act: submitted and docketed before, decided after. Licence/permit: SNM-7007.

Timeline

2022-04-05 — Application received: “TRISO-X submitted the SAR on April 5, 2022 (ML22101A200) and supplemented the submittal via letters dated October 13, 2022 (ML22286A144) and November 4, 2022 (ML22308A251). ... The ER was submitted via letter dated September 23, 2022 (ML22266A269).” (source)
2022-11-18 — Accepted for review (docketed): “The application was accepted for a detailed technical review on November 18, 2022 (ML22320A110).” (source)
2026-02-13 — Issued: “SNM-7007 was issued on February 13, 2026.” (source)

The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. See the NNN Data License Terms for reuse of the event history.

NNN coverage

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