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Parliamentary committee of Australia’s Victoria reports on nuclear power
The Environment and Planning Committee of the Parliament of Australia’s Victoria Legislative Council on 25 November released its final report following an enquiry into whether...
SCC says tests confirm serviceability of uranium-plutonium nitride fuel
Russia’s Siberian Chemical Combine has produced more than 1000 experimental fuel elements based on mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel (MNUP fuel) during its eight years of...
Shine begins commercial sales of lutetium-177
US-based Shine Medical Technologies announced on 4 Novemberthat its Therapeutics division has made its first commercial sales of lutetium-177 (Lu-177) to multiple customers. There...
BWXT restarts TRISO fuel line
US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced that its BWXT Nuclear Operations Group subsidiary has completed its TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) nuclear fuel line restart project and...
Fuel testing begins for Terrestrial Energy’s molten salt reactor
Terrestrial Energy USA and US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have begun detailed testing of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) Generation...
Framatome’s 3D-printed fuel elements complete initial trials
France’s Framatome announced that its 3D-printed nuclear fuel elements had completed the first cycle of irradiation in operating conditions at Switzerland's Gösgen nuclear plant.
Kazatomprom’s expectations for 2020 remain unchanged
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom has announced its operating results for the 3rd quarter and nine months ended 30 September
Iranian parliament approve bill specifying increased uranium enrichment
Iran’s parliament on 2 November approved a bill requiring the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) to produce at least 120kg of 20% enriched uranium a year at its Fordow...
New arrangement to boost supply of Lutetium-177
Germany’s ITM Medical Isotopes and Canada-based Isogen have signed a formal supply arrangement to provide a reliable supply of lutetium-177 to the world’s health care system...
Rosatom delivers Lutetium-177 to Italy
Rosatom subsidiary V/O Izotop has delivered the radioisotope lutetium-177 to Italy, to one of the leading medical institutions in the Puglia region — the consortium of hospitals...
Rosatom plans waste-free uranium plant
Russia plans to build the world's only uranium plant using waste-free technology, JSC VNIPIpromtechnologii (Engineering Centre of ARMZ Uranium Holding, the Mining Division of...
NNL and JAEA to co-operate on HTGRs
The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have announced that their current technical collaboration agreement, signed in 2001, is to...
Tvel completes development of new fuel for Paks nuclear plant
Russian fuel company TVEL has completed a project to develop and validate nuclear fuel modifications for the VVER-440 reactors in operation at the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary.
US and Russia sign final amendment to uranium suspension agreement
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) and Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom on 5 October signed a final amendment to the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation...
Framatome opens US uranium recovery facility
France’s Framatome said on 6 October that it had opened its $20 million uranium recovery facility at its US fuel manufacturing site in Richland, Washington. After nearly three years...
Gryphon Technologies to support development of HALEU propulsion system
Gryphon Technologies has been awarded a $14 million task order by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the development and demonstration of a High-Assay...
Westinghouse increases fuel supplies to Ukraine
Westinghouse Electric Co said on 30 September that it had signed an agreement with nuclear utility Energoatom to increase nuclear fuel supplies for Ukraine's reactors.
Brazil prepares to revive uranium project
The project for the exploration of uranium in Brazil’s northeast Ceará province is to be restarted after the Santa Quitéria consortium, comprising Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB)...
Darlington takes step towards producing Mo-99
Ontario Power Generation (OPG), its subsidiary Laurentis Energy Partners, BWXT ITG Canada Inc. and its affiliates announced they are making "significant progress" towards the...
