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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...
Kansai Electric plans temporary storage of used fuel at NPPs
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co has told Fukui Prefecture that it plans to build air-cooled dry storage facilities at NPPs in the prefecture to temporarily store used fuel. The...
Equipment testing begins at Brest reactor fuel facility
Comprehensive testing of equipment has begun at the nuclear fuel fabrication/refabrication module (MFR) which will support Russia’s Brest-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor...
HALEU demonstration project begins enrichment in Ohio
Enrichment operation have begun at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio operated by American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of...
Rosatom delivers first fuel to Rooppur
The first nuclear fuel has been delivered to the construction site of the Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh, representing the transition of the plant to the formal status of a nuclear...
Southern Nuclear authorised to install advanced fuel
Unit 2 of Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle NPP in Georgia has received first-of-a-kind approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to be the first US commercial reactor...
Temelín switches to 18-month fuel cycle
Czech power utility ČEZ says unit 2 of the Temelín NPP, during its current outage, is transitioning from a 12-month to an 18-month fuel cycle as part of a wider programme to...
Rosatom completes tests of TVS-2M nuclear fuel
Pilot industrial operation of new nuclear fuel for VVER-1000 reactors with a second-generation anti-debris filter ADF-2 has been completed at unit 1 of Russia’s Rostov NPP. A pilot...
Energoatom and ConverDyn sign MOU on uranium conversion
Peter Kotin, President of Ukrainian nuclear utility Energoatom and US ConverDyn President Malcolm Critchley signed a confidentiality agreement and a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...
Hungary considers use of French nuclear fuel at Paks
The Hungarian authorities intend to switch the NPP in the city of Paks to French nuclear fuel instead of Russian, Telex reported citing Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The plan was...
Orano plans extension of uranium enrichment capacity
France’s Orano has announced plans to extend enrichment capacity at its Georges Besse II (GB-II) uranium enrichment plant, and has begun the regulatory process to produce HALEU...
