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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 nuclear fuel for USNC’s Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) and other advanced reactor designs. The fuel supply will include commercial quantities of Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) particles and USNC’s proprietary Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuel.

Date: Saturday, 02 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-and-usnc-establish-joint-venture-to-manufacture-reactor-fuel-11338684

During the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) 2023 in Paris, EDF Group signed several industrial cooperation agreements intended to secure the involvement of local supply chains and industries for the deployment of future EPR-technology-based and Nuward small modular reactor (SMR) projects in Europe and worldwide. These included agreements with Canada’s Ontario Power Group (OPG), various Czech companies and India’s Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).

Date: Friday, 01 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-signs-co-operation-agreements-with-canada-czech-republic-and-indian-11337777

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 Government’s Department for Energy Security & Net-Zero (DESNZ) and EDF.

Date: Friday, 01 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-to-set-up-fuel-fabrication-facility-in-uk-11337794

Romania's Nuclearelectrica and France's Framatome have signed a cooperation agreement on exploring the production of the medical isotope lutetium-177 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.

Date: Friday, 01 December 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclearelectrica-and-Framatome-in-Lutetium-177-agr

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 parliament supported an amendment to the nuclear energy strategy proposed by the government. State Secretary at the Ministry of Energy Attila Steiner noted that Paks, Hungary’s only NPP currently uses nuclear fuel supplied by Rosatom enterprises.

Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-authorises-use-of-diverse-nuclear-fuel-sources-11335610

French company Framatome is planning the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK as part of its plans to scale-up its operations in the country. In a separate development it also announced it was setting up a joint venture with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.

Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-seeking-site-for-UK-nuclear-fuel-facilit

French energy company EDF signed cooperation agreements relating to the potential deployment of its technology, and the involvement of local supply chains, in Canada, the Czech Republic and India on the first day of World Nuclear Exhibition 2023 in Paris.

Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-agreements-with-Canadian,-Czech-and-Indian-fir

France’s Framatome has completed a two-year test programme for the industry’s first spray-in-place liner system for buried piping rehabilitation. Framatome said the results validate the structural liner system for use in NPP safety-related applications for long-term plant operations and licence renewals.

Date: Friday, 24 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-completes-tests-on-new-buried-piping-liner-rehabilitation-system-11322100

South Africa’s power utility Eskom said unit 1 at Koeberg NPP has been synchronised to the grid after almost a year, and the longest outage in the plant’s history. During the outage, the original three steam generators were replaced by three new steam generators. Unit 2 continued to generating electricity to the grid while the work took place and will continue to do so until the start of its next outage which will see its original three steam generators also replaced. The outage at unit 2 will start as soon as unit 1 is stable and all the required commissioning tests are complete, Eskom stated Although the unit 2 outage will be similar in terms of the scope, the lessons learnt from unit 1 will reduce the time needed with compromising nuclear safety.

Date: Friday, 24 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskoeberg-1-back-online-after-steam-generator-replacement-11322102

The Governments of the Philippines and the USA signed an “Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy” also known as a Section 123 Agreement, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in San Francisco, California. The US insists that countries seeking to trade nuclear power goods and services must sign formal cooperation agreements. Such Section 123 Agreements relate to the relevant paragraph of the US 1954 Atomic Energy Act which requires them.

Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsphilippines-and-us-sign-nuclear-co-operation-agreement-11315263