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Russia’s Angarsk ElectroChemical Combine (AECC in Irkutsk) will begin enriching uranium hexafluoride supplied by the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC in Seversk) in 2024. Both are part of Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL. AECC Director Vyacheslav Glushenkov said the plant was currently processing its tailing dumps to extracting additional uranium. The plant extracts uranium-235 for re-use in nuclear fuel from the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF) stored on site.

Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-angarsk-electrochemical-combine-to-start-new-enrichment-project-11356643

Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors in face of widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest, Bloomberg reported on 8 June. Despite being OPEC’s second biggest oil producer, Iraq is suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in ageing plants, and needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building NPPs could help to close the supply gap.

Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-looks-to-revive-its-nuclear-programme-8822664

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom scheduled an auction for 14 April to select a contractor to decommission one of the buildings of Angarsk Electrochemical Plant (AECC) in Irkutsk.

Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-launches-auction-for-angarsk-decommissioning-work-7871801

Russian fuel company Tvel, part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has begun decommissioning building 804 at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical diffusion plant, which has been idle since the 1990s.  The work is being done within the framework of the federal target programme "Nuclear and Radiation Safety in 2016-2020 and until 2030" (FTP NRS-2) under the project "Decommissioning of Building 2 (Building No. 802) and Building 4 (Building No. 804) at AECC". The two buildings housed gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facilities but were shut down in 1987 and 1990 after Russia switched to gas centrifuge technology. Building 804 still has process equipment which has not been dismantled, including 15 large-size units of diffusion machines and inter-unit piping systems, as well as other engineering equipment and scrap metal (fragments of dismantled process equipment).

Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-begins-to-decommission-old-diffiusion-plant-5684178

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has called for bids for decommissioning of Building 4 at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex, formerly a key uranium enrichment and conversion facility. The bids are due to April 25. The initial (maximum) contract price was set at RUB1.7bn ($25.8m), according to the government procurement website. The work must be completed by 10 December 2019.

Date: Thursday, 14 April 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-to-begin-decommissioning-former-enrichment-facility-at-angarsk-4864548

The USA's USEC Inc. has signed a 10-year contract with Russia's Techsnabexport (TENEX) for the 10-year supply of low enriched uranium (LEU) beginning in 2013. The new contract will provide USEC with continued access to Russian enriched uranium, which currently constitutes about one-half of USEC's supply source.

Date: Thursday, 24 March 2011
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsusec-and-tenex-sign-post-megatons-to-megawatts-deal