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 technology by the end of the decade. 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.

These organizations will develop optimal design and fabrication of this equipment in line with the VOYGR plant deployment schedule. This announcement sustains the momentum between NuScale and Framatome, which began in 2014. Through this expanded partnership, the pair will continue to work together on existing fuel design and other engineering and licensing scopes of work, utilizing combined expertise throughout the commercialization and deployment of NuScale's VOYGR plants.