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Hungary authorises use of diverse nuclear fuel sources
The possibility of using nuclear fuel from suppliers other than Russia’s TVEL at the Paks NPP has been legally enshrined in Hungary’s legislation. Members of the national...
Novovoronezh NPP unit 6 moves to 18-month fuel cycle
Russia’s Novovoronezh NPP has completed a pilot 18-month fuel cycle industrial operation at unit 6 and has submitted the relevant documents to the Federal Service for...
NASA moves closer to use of plutonium-238 to power space missions
The shipment earlier this year of heat source plutonium-238 from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to its Los Alamos National Laboratory...
INL fabricates commercial grade uranium dioxide HALEU fuel
Recently, researchers at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) fabricated high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel for next generation nuclear reactors, as a step in the testing...
Refuelling underway at Russia’s floating NPP
Refuelling is underway at the world's only floating NPP (FNPP), the Akademik Lomonosov, moored at the city of Pevek, in Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The supply of fuel...
Kazatomprom signs long-term uranium supply contract with China
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom has signed a contract for the supply of natural uranium concentrate with China National Uranium Corporation Limited (CNUC - a...
Russia’s Mayak facility masters processing of transportable fast reactor fuel
The RT-1 reprocessing plant of Russia’s Mayak Production Association has begun processing fuel from the TIBR transportable pulsed fast reactor. The fuel’s composition is based on a...
Centrus delivers first HALEU to US DOE
Centrus Energy Corp has made its first delivery of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) to the US Department of Energy, (DOE). This completes Phase One of its contract with DOE...
Russian scientists modernise nuclear fuel reprocessing using gallium and indium
Scientists at the Urals Federal University (UrFU) in Russia have discovered that the use of gallium and indium can reduce the cost of the process of pyrochemical reprocessing of...
MOX use at Russia’s BN-800 reactor confirms reliability of the technology
The BN-800 sodium-cooled fast reactor at unit 4 of Russia’s Beloyarsk NPP has registered a year of reliable and safe operation using an almost full load of uranium-plutonium mixed...
Fuel for Hungary’s Paks NPP arrives from Russia
Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Péter Szijjártó, said another shipment of fuel assemblies for the Paks NPP had arrived in Hungary. He added that it was the third...
BWXT announces contract for naval nuclear reactor fuel
BWX Technologies (BWXT) has been awarded a US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contract totalling approximately $300m for the manufacture of naval nuclear reactor fuel. BWXT...
Fifth batch of nuclear fuel reaches Rooppur NPP
The fifth batch of nuclear fuel for Rooppur NPP under construction in Bangladesh has reached the project site in Pabna protected by a special security arrangement. According to...
Fuel loading begins at Kakrapar’s second unit
Indian NPP operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has begun loading fuel at the second 700 MWe unit at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant (KAPP) in Gujarat (KAPP 4)....
Orano approves Georges Besse II extension
The Board of Directors of France’s Orano has approved investment for the project to extend the production capacity of the Georges Besse II (GB-II) uranium enrichment plant on...
Romanian institute to assess Lightbridge fuel for Candu reactors
US fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation has engaged Romania’s Institutul de Cercetări Nucleare Pitesti (ICN Pitesti), a subsidiary of Regia Autonoma Tehnologii pentru...
Kazakhstan delivers more fuel assemblies to China
Kazakhstan’s National Nuclear Company Kazatomprom has delivered another consignment of fuel assemblies to China from its Kazakh-Chinese fuel plant, Ulba-TVS. The founders of the...
First refuelling for Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov floating NPP
Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL has supplied nuclear fuel for reactor 1 of the world's only floating NPP (FNPP), the Akademik Lomonosov, moored at the city of Pevek, in Russia’s...
Third batch of nuclear fuel arrives at Rooppur
The third batch of nuclear fuel has been delivered to the Rooppur NPP under construction in Bangladesh. The fuel arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on...
