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The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Japan and the US had removed all highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)’s Japan Materials Testing Reactor Critical Assembly (JMTRC) two years ahead of schedule.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsheu-removed-from-japanese-critical-assembly-ahead-of-schedule-11687212
US-based BWX Technologies subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) has been awarded a $122m contract extension from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the down-blending of highly enriched uranium (HEU) into low enriched uranium (LEU).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-subsidiary-awarded-contract-extension-for-uranium-down-blending-services-11520059
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
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-contracted-to-support-us-haleu-production-11121866
Fuel needed for next-generation of nuclear reactors
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 01 September 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/bwxt-wins-usd116-5-million-nnsa-contract-for-haleu-feedstock-production-8-4-2023
The IVG.1M research reactor at Kazakhstan’s National Nuclear Centre (NNC) in Kurchatov, has resumed formal operation using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel, following completion its conversion and subsequent licensing.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 25 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakhstan-research-reactor-switches-to-leu-fuel-10881376
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-fuel-subsidiary-to-provide-heu-conversion-services-to-nnsa-10759763
BR2 is one of the most powerful research reactors in the world contributing significantly to the global supply of medical radioisotopes and testing nuclear innovations. Since it began operating in 1962, it has been fuelled by highly enriched uranium (HEU), considered a nuclear proliferation risk. Belgium’s nuclear research centre, SCK-CEN, plans to replace this with low-enriched uranium (LEU).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelgiums-br2-research-reactor-to-use-low-enriched-uranium-fuel-10714503
Belgium’s Institute for Radioelements (IRE), a key producer of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) and iodine-131 (I-131) widely used in nuclear medicine, has complete conversion of its production process to low-enriched uranium (LEU). This has ended the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is seen as a proliferation risk.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelgiums-ire-moves-to-100-low-enriched-uranium-10719323
All major global molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production facilities are now using low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets instead of proliferation-sensitive highly-enriched uranium (HEU) following the completion of work to convert Belgium's National Institute of Radioelements (IRE) medical isotope production facility.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mo-99-production-reaches-non-proliferation-milesto