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Partnership aims to produce Haleu for existing and new reactors

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 14 December 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/lightbridge-and-centrus-considering-pilot-fuel-fabrication-plant-at-piketon-12-3-2023

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.

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

US president Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency in the mining industry, aimed at boosting domestic production of rare earth minerals critical for military technologies, including uranium, while reducing the country’s dependence on China.

Mr Trump ordered his Cabinet secretaries to study the matter, with an eye toward government grants for production equipment, as well as tariffs, quotas or other import restrictions against China and other non-market foreign adversaries.

The order states that the county’s “undue reliance on critical minerals, in processed or unprocessed form, from foreign adversaries constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 03 October 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/uranium-on-critical-list-as-trump-declares-national-emergency-10-5-2020

In order to secure the economic and security benefits of a true 'all-of-the-above' energy agenda, the United States must be at the forefront of nuclear innovation, writes Dan Brouillette. The following is the US secretary of energy's 21 August blog for the Department of Energy (DOE).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-You-cant-have-true-energy-independence

A bipartisan group of US Senators has called for the Department of Commerce (DOC) to extend the Russian Suspension Agreement (RSA), as recommended by the Nuclear Fuel Working Group (NFWG).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 22 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-senators-call-for-extension-of-uranium-import-q

Plan for uranium reserve is ‘first step’ towards reviving sector The Crow Butte uranium mine in Nebraska. Photo courtesy Cameco. The US nuclear industry saw its best year for production in 2019, but despite operating the largest fleet of commercial reactors in the world the country’s ability to produce domestic nuclear fuel is “on the verge of a collapse”, a Department of Energy official said.

Rita Baranwal, assistant secretary for the DOE’s office of nuclear energy, said in 2019 the US led the world in generating more than 809 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from nuclear, which is enough to power more than 66 million homes.

But she said the nation’s only uranium conversion plant – the Honeywell facility in Illinois – is idle due to poor market conditions, and the country’s inability to compete with foreign state-owned enterprises, most notably from China and Russia, is threatening energy security and weakening Washington’s ability to influence the peaceful uses of nuclear around the world.

Ms Baranwal said “within the next year” the DOE will begin a competitive procurement process for establishing a uranium reserve. The reserve is a direct result of a report by the Nuclear Fuel Working Group, established by president Donald Trump, to address the challenges facing the nuclear fuel cycle.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 15 May 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/country-s-ability-to-produce-nuclear-fuel-on-verge-of-collapse-warns-doe-official-5-4-2020

Uzbekistan's preparations to build its first nuclear power plant are gathering pace with a sense of making up for lost time. The Central Asian country became a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as long ago as 1994, has 50 years of experience in nuclear research and is the world's fifth biggest producer of uranium.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 04 October 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-most-experienced-newcomer-to-nuclear-power

Kazakhstan's national atomic company Kazatomprom is negotiating ways to strengthen its partnership with Russia's nuclear fuel manufacturer Tvel and its parent-company, the state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Baurzhan Ibraev, director of Kazatomprom's fuel branch said on 12 April. He added that Kazatomprom is planning to set up a nuclear fuel manufacturing enterprise in 2016 and Tvel's experience will be "valuable" in this.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Thursday, 14 April 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazatomprom-increases-co-operation-with-russia-and-the-us-4864572