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GE Vernova subsidiary Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has received US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval to manufacture, ship and analyse the performance of nuclear fuel with Uranium-235 enrichments of up to 8% weight.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 22 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsglobal-nuclear-fuel-receives-approval-to-manufacture-higher-enrichment-fuel-11533316
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved GE Vernova's nuclear fuel business to manufacture, ship and analyse the performance of nuclear fuel with uranium-235 enrichments of up to 8%.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 16 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GNF-gets-approval-to-manufacture-higher-enrichment
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-agreements-with-Canadian,-Czech-and-Indian-fir
Hungary intends to receive control equipment from France or Russia for its Paks-II NPP project if Germany refuses to honour its commitments in this regard. The equipment was to be supplied by a consortium including France’s Framatome and Germany’s Siemens Energy. However, Siemens is still waiting for a licence from the German authorities to participate in the project.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 04 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-or-russia-to-provide-equipment-to-paks-ii-if-germany-refuses-10648100
Last year, during a scheduled spring refuelling outage, Framatome deployed the world’s first full ATF assembly at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear station in the US state of Maryland.
This followed the launching in 2012 of the US Department of Energy ATF initiative in response to the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan. The DOE set three main objectives: to develop a fuel to allow nuclear operators additional coping time during accidents; to launch and deploy lead test assemblies by 2022; and to make sure improvements do not impact the operational performance of the fuel.
Mr Alzaben said Framatome had met the DOE’s schedule and has deployed lead test assemblies in five reactors, four in the US and one in Europe.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/french-company-aiming-to-produce-full-reload-quantities-of-accident-tolerant-fuel-4-2-2022
EDF Energy is leading a Long-Term Operation (LTO) programme aimed at extending the operating lifespan of Sizewell B - the UK's only pressurised water reactor and newest nuclear power plant - by at least 20 years to 2055.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 08 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-looks-to-extend-Sizewell-B-operation
The UK is facing a major challenge to replace its aging fleet of Generation I nuclear power plants, many of which are scheduled to shut down in 2023.
The project by French state utility EDF to build two Generation III EPR units at Hinkley Point C in Somerset is on track for connection to the grid by 2025. Once in commercial operation the two units will provide up to 7% of the total electricity demand. Two similar units are planned for the Sizewell site in Suffolk.
However, press reports have suggested EDF is in “a race against time” to secure a funding deal for Sizewell C as delays risk making the project prohibitively expensive.
According to The Times newspaper EDF has hired Rothschild as financial adviser for the project and says it wants a “definitive way forward” from the government this year so it can start construction in 2022.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 17 January 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/what-lies-in-store-in-2020-1-4-2020