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BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop a centrifuge pilot plant to ensure a domestic supply of enriched uranium for defence purposes.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 August 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-to-evaluate-defence-focused-enrichment-pilot
Westinghouse has produced the first of its nuclear fuel pellets that contain higher enrichment levels than what is currently used in commercial reactors. The Low Enriched Uranium Plus (LEU+) Advanced Doped Pellet Technology (ADOPT) fuel pellets are aimed at boosting both the performance and safety of nuclear power plants.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 August 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-starts-production-of-ADOPT-fuel-pelle
Framatome and TerraPower have agreed to design and develop a high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) metallisation pilot plant at Framatome's nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 01 June 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome,-TerraPower-announce-plans-for-HALEU-met
The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, which will ban the importation into the USA of low-enriched uranium (LEU) that is produced in Russia or by a Russian entity, will now go to President Biden to be signed into law.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 02 May 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-Senate-passes-act-banning-Russian-uranium-impor
Meeting pledges to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 will mean opportunities for all stages of the nuclear supply chain. These opportunities - and associated challenges - were widely discussed at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2024 conference which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-cycle-players-explore-opportunities-and-chall
The African Commission On Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) and US-based DeepGEO have signed a partnership agreement paving the way for expanding nuclear energy in Africa and establishing a fully autonomous African nuclear supply chain. The African Nuclear Energy Funding Initiative (ANEFI) agreement supports the development of multinational repositories for high level nuclear waste in Africa to promote regional governance and secure financing for vital infrastructure development. DeepGEO said this “enhances the sustainability of nuclear energy worldwide, and boosts sustainable development in a continent that is expected to become home to 25% of the global population by the year 2050”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 09 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsafcone-and-deepgeo-launch-partnership-to-expand-nuclear-energy-in-africa-11585821
The Orano group and US-based SHINE Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a view to developing a pilot plant in the USA for recycling used nuclear fuel from light water reactors. The material recovered from the used fuel will be able to be re-used to fabricate new nuclear fuel for advanced and existing reactor designs. Certain radioactive isotopes extracted during the process could also be used for other industrial and medical applications.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 07 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsorano-and-shine-technologies-to-co-operate-on-used-fuel-recycling-11573638
Orano USA and SHINE Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the development of a US pilot plant with commercial-scale technology for recycling used nuclear fuel from light water reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 02 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Plans-announced-for-pilot-US-nuclear-fuel-recyclin
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
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for uranium enrichment services to help establish a reliable domestic supply of fuels using high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Such fuel is not currently commercially available from US-based suppliers.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-seeks-proposals-for-domestic-HALEU-production