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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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 September 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BWXT-announces-HALEU-contract
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 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 May 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-removes-heu-from-japan-9729529
US Fluor Corporation announced that the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) had selected Nuclear Production One (NPOne) — a Fluor-led joint venture with Amentum — to lead the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant Management and Operating (M&O) contract.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfluor-led-jv-wins-contract-from-nnsa-9359914
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) on 26 October awarded United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), the Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract (ORRCC) at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. UCOR is a newly formed limited liability company comprising AECOM Energy & Construction, (an Amentum Company), Jacobs Technology and Honeywell International. UCOR’s teaming subcontractors include RSI EnTech, Strata-G, Longenecker & Associates and Environmental Alternatives.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 30 October 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-oakridge-clean-up-contract-to-ucor-9198089