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France confirms fuel recycling plans
12 March, 2024
France’s Minister for the Economy, Finance, Industrial & Digital...
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Orano signs uranium enrichment services contract with ČEZ
Friday, March 08, 2024 by France’s Orano has signed a contract with Czech electric utility ČEZ for the supply of uranium enrichment services. The enriched uranium will be used in fuel for the Dukovany NPP....

US DOE issues draft EIS to boost domestic HALEU production
Tuesday, March 05, 2024 by The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analysing the potential impacts of the Department’s proposed action to acquire...

Cruas-Meysse 2 restarts using recycled uranium fuel
Tuesday, March 05, 2024 by Unit 2 of France’s Cruas-Meysse NPP is now operating its first full core of recycled uranium fuel. EDF Nuclear & Thermal Park Director Cedric Lewandowski said this was “a historic...

Fuel loading begins at India’s PFBR
Tuesday, March 05, 2024 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has witnessed the start of fuel loading at the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. The PFBR is a 500 MWe...

KHNP to buy enriched uranium from US energy firm Centrus
Friday, March 01, 2024 by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the US-based Centrus Energy at a ceremony in Washington DC to enhance the nuclear fuel supply chain. The...

Slovakia hosts Westinghouse-sponsored VVER nuclear fuel forum
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 by Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) hosted a two-day forum, the 5th annual VVER Fuel Forum in Bratislava. The forum on nuclear fuel for VVER 440 and VVER 1000 reactors,...

Rosatom tests fuel for planned HTGR plant
Friday, February 23, 2024 by Rosatom scientists have completed a key stage of reactor tests on laboratory fuel samples for a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR). Russia views HTGRs as important to future...

GLE to further accelerate commercialisation of Silex enrichment technology
Thursday, February 22, 2024 by Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), jointly owned by Australia’s Silex Systems (51%) and Canada’s Cameco (49%), have approved GLE’s operating plan and budget for calendar year (CY) 2024...

Global Nuclear Fuel receives approval to manufacture higher enrichment fuel
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 by GE Vernova subsidiary Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has received US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval to manufacture, ship and analyse the performance of nuclear fuel...

Fuel transfer trolley installed at Finnish encapsulation plant
Friday, February 16, 2024 by The transfer trolley for moving used fuel transport casks has been installed at Finnish waste management company Posiva's encapsulation plant under construction at Olkiluoto. The...

BWXT subsidiary awarded contract extension for uranium down-blending services
Friday, February 16, 2024 by US-based BWX Technologies subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) has been awarded a $122m contract extension from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the down-blending of...

ČEZ prepares for delivery of Westinghouse fuel to Dukovany
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Czech power company ČEZ said is preparing for the delivery of nuclear fuel from US-based Westinghouse as part of its fuel diversification strategy. At the end of this year, the...

Centrus financial report reveals slow down in HALEU plans
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 by US Centrus’s Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results showed an overall increase in income but a reduction in profits with mixed results for different operating sectors. While the...

Fuel fabrication begins for MARVEL microreactor
Thursday, February 08, 2024 by US-based TRIGA International has begun fabricating fuel for the US Department of Energy’s MARVEL microreactor project at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), according to DOE’s Office...

Oklo firms up MMR siting agreement and receives approval for fuel fabrication facility
Wednesday, February 07, 2024 by US-based Oklo has signed an Option & Right of First Refusal to Purchase Real Estate (land rights agreement) with the non-profit Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) for...

Russian specialists develop equipment to produce nitrogen for advanced fuel
Thursday, February 01, 2024 by Specialists at Russia’s AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM - part of Rosatom fuel company TVEL) have built an enlarged laboratory stand to study the...

INL receives irradiated next-generation fuel for testing
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor LWR) fuel from a commercial NPP to...

Nuclear expert advises against replacing Russian fuel rods at Paks
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 by It is neither sensible nor safe to replace the Russian nuclear fuel used in the VVER-440 reactors at Hungary’s Paks NPP with fuel from another supplier, Hungarian nuclear engineer...

US NRC approves HALEU-TRISO transport system
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 by US-based NAC International has received approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for its patented OPTIMUS-L packaging and transport system for High-Assay...

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