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Global Laser Enrichment has decided not to submit a proposal in response to a US Department of Energy request for the acquisition of high-assay low-enriched uranium enrichment, its 51%-owner Silex Systems has announced. The company has also received regulatory approval to load uranium hexafluoride for the start of testing to demonstrate the technology it plans to use in its enrichment facility at Paducah in Kentucky.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-enrichment-company-declines-HALEU-opportunit
Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), jointly owned by Australia’s Silex Systems (51%) and Canada’s Cameco (49%), have approved GLE’s operating plan and budget for calendar year (CY) 2024 that enables the continuation of accelerated activities to commercialise the Silex uranium enrichment technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgle-to-further-accelerate-commercialisation-of-silex-enrichment-technology-11540478
US Centrus’s Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results showed an overall increase in income but a reduction in profits with mixed results for different operating sectors. While the US’s only uranium enrichment facility showed increased revenue with respect to its low-enriched uranium (LEU) operations, results for high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) were slow.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscentrus-financial-report-reveals-slow-down-in-haleu-plans-11511953
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 of Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL. AECC Director Vyacheslav Glushenkov said the plant was currently processing its tailing dumps to extracting additional uranium. The plant extracts uranium-235 for re-use in nuclear fuel from the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF) stored on site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-angarsk-electrochemical-combine-to-start-new-enrichment-project-11356643
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 there. François Lurin, Senior Executive Vice President of Orano's Chemistry-Enrichment Business Unit, revealed Orano’s enrichment plans in a video interview released on social media to coincide with World Nuclear Symposium 2023. The issue had been under consideration for around a year after requests from some US and European customers seeking alternatives to Russian sources of supply.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 14 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsorano-plans-extension-of-uranium-enrichment-capacity-11143485
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted an application from X-Energy Reactor Company subsidiary, TRISO-X, for a fuel fabrication facility which will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Anticipating the decision, TRISO-X, in October, broke ground and began construction of the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) is expected to create more than 400 jobs and attract investment of approximately $300 million. TF3 is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-accepts-triso-xs-application-for-fuel-fabrication-facility-10451681
Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors in face of widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest, Bloomberg reported on 8 June. Despite being OPEC’s second biggest oil producer, Iraq is suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in ageing plants, and needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building NPPs could help to close the supply gap.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-looks-to-revive-its-nuclear-programme-8822664
Russia’s Urals ElectroChemical Combine (UECC) has implemented a proprietary system for automatic control of centrifuge energy consumption, Strana Rosatom said on 19 April. The automated system, Yantar, makes it possible, in case of an emergency shutdown, to transfer the load of the technological unit of centrifuges to the standby without participation of an electrician. Yantar was developed by the specialists of the metrological service of the plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 23 April 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-uecc-automates-centrifuges-8690449
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom scheduled an auction for 14 April to select a contractor to decommission one of the buildings of Angarsk Electrochemical Plant (AECC) in Irkutsk.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-launches-auction-for-angarsk-decommissioning-work-7871801
US Centrus Energy Corp (formerly known as USEC) announced on 2 October that it had been awarded a $15 million work authorisation by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for demolition. Centrus has leased K-1600 - the former K-25 site - from the DOE since 2002 to test and demonstrate its uranium enrichment technology. The company has also been conducting centrifuge manufacturing, engineering and design at its own nearby Technology and Manufacturing Centre (TMC) in south Oak Ridge, at the former Boeing plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-centrus-15m-for-decommissioning-work-6786749