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All remaining highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency's (JAEA's) Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly has now been returned to the USA. Japan and the USA have been cooperating for many years to repatriate HEU from Japanese research reactors to the USA.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Further-Japanese-research-reactor-free-of-HEU

US fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation says it has achieved a critical milestone in developing its fuel after Idaho National Laboratory (INL) extruded coupon samples of Lightbridge Fuel material consisting of an alloy of depleted uranium and zirconium. The extrusion process involves pressing a metallic alloy billet through a die.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslightbridge-fuel-fabrication-makes-progress-at-inl-11616949

The extrusion of samples of an alloy of depleted uranium and zirconium at Idaho National Laboratory is a critical step in the process to qualify Lightbridge Corporation's advanced nuclear fuel technology.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2024; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Extrusion-demo-is-milestone-for-Lightbridge-Fuel-f

South Korea wants to diversify its supply of enriched uranium

: Source: Nucnet

: Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024; Original article: nucnet.org/news/khnp-centrus-sign-letter-of-intent-to-strengthen-fuel-supply-2-3-2024

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 nuclear fuel and services company expects the shortages to be temporary but says it will no longer be able to deliver the anticipated 900 kg of material under the second part of its contract with the US Department of Energy.

: Source: World Nuclear News

: Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2024; Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cylinder-shortages-hit-Centrus-HALEU-plans

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received a shipment of used next-generation light water reactor LWR) fuel from a commercial NPP to support research and testing for the first time in two decades. INL said it had received 25 experimental fuel rods irradiated in the reactor core of a commercial reactor. The fuel rods were developed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company with technical assistance from several US national laboratories, including INL.

: Source: NEI Magazine

: Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024; Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinl-receives-irradiated-next-generation-fuel-for-testing-11473480

The 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). Currently, HALEU is not commercially available from US-based suppliers, and boosting domestic supply is seen as vital for the development and deployment of advanced reactors in the US.