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The US Administration has issued an Executive Order on Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration, which it says will further revitalise the US nuclear energy sector and reinvigorate its space exploration programme. This includes directives to demonstrate the use of microreactors on military bases and also to ensure a viable US-origin supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-order-promotes-SMRs-for-space-exploration-and-d
US-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) announced on 31 March that the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme exercised contract options in Q1 2020 with BWXT’s subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) totalling approximately $128 million for fuel manufacturing work in support of US nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Work under this 12-month contract is expected to begin later this year.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbwxt-subsidiary-wins-us-navy-contract-7853060
Mr Remick, who is also a retired commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said US dependence on foreign minerals has doubled in the past 20 years and called for “a diverse supply chain” for minerals including uranium.
He said the US imports 93% of its uranium needs, and a large share comes from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, whose state-owned companies are flooding the global market and driving free-market companies out of business.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-needs-diverse-supply-chain-says-former-nrc-commissioner-8-5-2019
Uranium imports do not threaten the national security of the USA, President Donald Trump has decided in his response to the Uranium Miners’ Section 232 Petition. He did however call for a "fuller analysis" of national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-President-rejects-uranium-import-restrictions