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Lightbridge and Centrus Energy to collaborate on pilot fuel fabrication facility
US fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation has announced a contract to conduct a front-end engineering & design (FEED) study to add a dedicated Lightbridge Pilot Fuel...
Rosatom manufactures first BN-800 MOX fuel assemblies with minor actinides
Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (MCC) in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, has manufactured the first three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, which...
Russia’s Angarsk ElectroChemical Combine to start new enrichment project
Russia’s Angarsk ElectroChemical Combine (AECC in Irkutsk) will begin enriching uranium hexafluoride supplied by the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC in Seversk) in 2024. Both are part...
COP28: ENEC signs commercial uranium contract with Kazatomprom
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has signed its first commercial uranium fuel supply contract with Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company (NAC) Kazatomprom JSC to supply...
Urenco signs long-term fuel deal with Energoatom
UK-based enrichment company Urenco and Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom signed a new long-term fuel supply contract during the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. According to...
OPG selects fuel suppliers for planned SMRs
Canada’s Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris that it is partnering with Canada’s Cameco, Urenco USA, France’s Orano and US-based...
Framatome and USNC establish joint venture to manufacture reactor fuel
France’s Framatome and US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) signed an agreement at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris to establish a joint venture (JV) to provide...
US DOE issues HALEU deconversion request for proposals
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for deconversion services to help establish a reliable domestic supply of fuels for advanced reactors...
Framatome to set up fuel fabrication facility in UK
France’s Framatome is planning the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK and is evaluating targeted local industrial sites in consultation with the UK...
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...
