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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Savannah River Site (SRS) says the H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium (HEU) stored in the Site’s H Area in order to down-blend it into high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU). “The projected demand for HALEU far exceeds the current supply,” said HALEU Programme Manager Jeff Hasty for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the site’s managing and operating contractor.

Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-production-planned-for-savannah-river-site-as-clean-up-continues-10731144

The agreement between Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, part of Russia’s TVEL, and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency, is for supplies of low-enriched fuel components for the ETRR-2 research reactor.

Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/TVEL-signs-contract-for-Egypt-research-reactor-fue

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP) has signed a 10-year contract with the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority for the supply of low-enriched nuclear fuel components, such as uranium and aluminium items, for the ETRR-2 research reactor. NCCP is a subsidiary of Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL.

Date: Tuesday, 07 April 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russian-facility-to-supply-fuel-components-for-Egy

Russian Scientists from the Federal Research Centre of the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre (KSC - part of the Siberian Academy of Sciences) and the Siberian Federal University have developed an economical method for solidifying liquid radioactive waste with a high content of caesium and strontium. The results of the study are published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials.

Date: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-find-solution-for-liquid-radioactive-waste-management-6765789

US Holtec International has outlined a new "proto-prompt" decommissioning strategy, which could transform a nuclear power plant site to greenfield status within about five-and-a-half years of the plant being shut down.

Date: Friday, 27 January 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsholtec-outlines-new-decommissioning-strategy-5726080


Russia's Production Association Mayak in Ozersk is to begin reprocessing spent uranium-zirconium fuel used in icebreakers. It has so far not been possible to process this fuel, which has accumulated for decades in storage.

Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnew-facilities-for-russias-mayak-4716279

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