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US-based BWX Technologies has been contracted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to process thousands of kilograms of government-owned scrap material containing enriched uranium into High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU). The initial award will total $47m, with a total contract value of up to $116.5m, subject to annual congressional appropriations.

Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-contracted-to-support-us-haleu-production-11121866

BWX Technologies, Inc is to process thousands of kilograms of US government-owned scrap material containing enriched uranium to produce high-assay low enriched uranium - or HALEU - feedstock for fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

Date: Tuesday, 05 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-announces-HALEU-contract

Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS), a subsidiary of US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) has been awarded a $428m Phase II contract by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide purification and conversion services for highly enriched uranium (HEU). NFS is one of only two Category I nuclear facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to store and process HEU.

Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-fuel-subsidiary-to-provide-heu-conversion-services-to-nnsa-10759763

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management achieved most of its goals for calendar year 2022, with all but three of the priorities on its mission "scorecard" for the year complete or partially complete. All six of its primary mission areas have received increased funding under the recently enacted budget for fiscal 2023.

Date: Saturday, 14 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-cleanup-mission-looks-to-build-on-2022-success

US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) crews are taking the first steps to bring the massive Alpha-4 facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) to the cold-and-dark stage, a process that involves removing all utility sources to the building as a precursor to demolition. Alpha-4 is one of the largest high-risk buildings at the site. It is the third former enrichment facility at Y-12 where EM has initiated deactivation work. Other crews are preparing the Alpha-2 and Beta-1 facilities for teardown.

Date: Saturday, 24 September 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdemolition-preparations-progress-at-alpha-4-enrichment-facility-10031767

The Bulk Shielding Reactor - known as Building 3010 - is one of over a dozen research reactors built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since the 1950s, and is the first reactor at the Tennessee site to be demolished.

Date: Saturday, 17 September 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-ORNL-research-reactor-demolished

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has declared open the Pilot Fuel Manufacturing (PFM) facility, which will produce the first fuel for testing and qualification for use in the company's advanced Micro Modular Reactor (MMR). The plant will be the USA's first producer of private-sector TRISO and USNC's patented Fully Ceramic-Microencapsulated - or FCM - fuel.

Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Pilot-TRISO-fuel-manufacturing-plant-opens-in-Tenn

A second campaign to repatriate high-enriched uranium (HEU) from a research reactor in Japan to the USA has been completed, bringing to an end a three-year joint effort to transfer 45 kg of the material as part of shared non-proliferation goals.

Date: Friday, 12 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cooperative-effort-sees-Japanese-HEU-transfer-comp

The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has removed more than 30 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Japan. NNSA and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology worked together on the removal. The shipment was undertaken in close cooperation with the UK’s Nuclear Transport Solutions and Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

Date: Friday, 27 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-removes-heu-from-japan-9729529

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