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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 subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services, based in Erwin, Tennessee, will manufacture and deliver the fuel. BWXT fuel and reactors power the US Navy’s Ohio, Virginia, Seawolf and Los Angeles class submarines, as well as the Nimitz and Ford class aircraft carriers. BWXT fuel and reactors will also power the Navy’s Columbia-class submarines.

Date: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-announces-contract-for-naval-nuclear-reactor-fuel-11258968

US-based BWX Technologies announced that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme had exercised contract options totalling approximately $1 billion for manufacturing naval nuclear reactor components and fuel.

Date: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-contracted-to-manufacture-us-naval-nuclear-reactor-components-and-fuel-9513595

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that it was set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental clean-up at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.

Date: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-to-demolish-submarine-reactor-prototype-at-idaho-national-lab-9481309

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is to deactivate and demolish the land-based prototype for a reactor plant used in the first nuclear-powered submarine. The Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse (S1W) was built inside a section of a submarine hull at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) in the Arco Desert, west of Idaho Falls.

Date: Saturday, 12 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Preparations-begin-for-demolition-of-prototype-rea

US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced on 31 March that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme exercised contract options in Q1 2020 with BWXT’s subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) totalling approximately $128 million for fuel manufacturing work in support of US nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Work under this 12-month contract is expected to begin later this year.

Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-subsidiary-wins-us-navy-contract-7853060

The US is heavily dependent on foreign countries for 31 minerals designated as “critical” to national security by the Department of Defence, including uranium for nuclear reactors and fluorspar, which is used in nuclear fuel, Forrest Remick, emeritus professor of nuclear engineering at Pennsylvania State University, wrote in Penn Live.

Mr Remick, who is also a retired commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said US dependence on foreign minerals has doubled in the past 20 years and called for “a diverse supply chain” for minerals including uranium.

He said the US imports 93% of its uranium needs, and a large share comes from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, whose state-owned companies are flooding the global market and driving free-market companies out of business.

Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-needs-diverse-supply-chain-says-former-nrc-commissioner-8-5-2019

Uranium imports do not threaten the national security of the USA, President Donald Trump has decided in his response to the Uranium Miners’ Section 232 Petition. He did however call for a "fuller analysis" of national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain.

Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-President-rejects-uranium-import-restrictions

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 11 October limiting sales of its civil nuclear technology to China on the grounds that it could be diverted for military and other unauthorised purposes.

Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-places-controls-on-nuclear-exports-to-china-6803643

The US Navy's newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier - the Gerald R Ford - has been formally commissioned by President Donald Trump at a ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia.

Date: Monday, 24 July 2017
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Navy-commissions-new-nuclear-ship