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A shipment of samples of plutonium oxide is en route from the UK to a laboratory at Orano's Melox plant in southern France. The samples will be used to determine if the plutonium can be used in the production of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.

Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-plutonium-samples-shipped-to-France

The first accident tolerant fuel assemblies containing both modified cladding and pellets have been loaded into until 2 of the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, Southern Nuclear and Framatome announced 5 April.

Date: Monday, 08 April 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaccident-tolerant-fuel-in-operation-at-vogtle-2-7142564

“From the point of view of safety and radiation protection, the impact on installations and transports of the French fuel cycle of the current fuel management of reactors and envisaged until 2030, does not show any major technical difficulty for this period,” L'Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) said in a report of 24 October. 

Date: Friday, 26 October 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrance-needs-mox-to-avoid-spent-fuel-storage-crisis-6820865

23 Oct (NucNet): France needs to make available new storage capacity or enable the use of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in more reactors as part of an effort to make sure existing storage capacity is not used up in the coming 10 years, the regulator ASN has said.

Date: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Original article: nucnet.org/news/french-regulator-recommends-more-mox-use-after-review-of-fuel-management

A new fission-fusion hybrid reactor will be assembled at Russia’s Kurchatov Institute by the end of 2018, Peter Khvostenko, scientific adviser of the Kurchatov complex on thermonuclear energy and plasma technologies, announced on 14 May. The physical start-up of the facility is scheduled for 2020.

Date: Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-develops-a-fission-fusion-hybrid-reactor-6168535

The second and final shipment of high-level waste (HLW) from the UK to Switzerland has been completed. The waste resulted from the reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power plants at Sellafield.

Date: Monday, 17 October 2016
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-completes-return-of-Swiss-reprocessing-waste

At the recent World Nuclear Fuel Cycle conference in Abu Dhabi, a new concept of nuclear fuel leasing was publicly proposed, writes Ian Hore-Lacy.  

Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russian-proposal-for-nuclear-fuel-leasing-and-recy


France's Cabri research reactor at Cadarache has once again achieved criticality after several years of renovation and upgrading as part of the Cabri International Programme (CIP) for the study of reactivity accidents with high burn-up fuel assemblies in pressurised water reactors (PWRs).

Date: Friday, 22 January 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrances-cabri-research-reactor-achieves-criticality-4791123

The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change has a problem with the world’s largest stocks of reactor-grade plutonium. The international association Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy view this as a one-time opportunity to benefit several advanced nuclear energy developments, none of which are acknowledged by DECC. By Brendan McNamara

Weak, short distance radiation makes it warm; so it is safe to hold but not to swallow. UK reactor grade plutonium is unsuitable for making weapons. And small-scale uses of UK plutonium could never go critical

Date: Friday, 27 May 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmarter-uses-for-plutonium