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The first full-scale laser system module developed by Silex Systems Ltd for deployment in Global Laser Enrichment's (GLE) commercial pilot demonstration facility has successfully completed eight months of testing in Australia. The module will now be shipped to the USA for installation at GLE's facility.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 06 September 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Testing-complete-for-laser-enrichment-module
US company Energy Fuels Inc will become a commercial rare earths supplier in 2021, having entered into a three-year supply agreement to acquire a minimum of 2500 tons per year of natural monazite sands from which it will also recover uranium at its White Mesa mill in Utah. Separately, Vancouver-based International Consolidated Uranium Inc said it had been attracted to its newly announced acquisition of the Laguna Salada uranium project in Argentina by the by-product vanadium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uranium-companies-attracted-by-REE-and-vanadium
The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have completed the transfer of around 700kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Dounreay, in northern Scotland, to the USA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsheu-removed-from-dounreay-to-usa-7195680
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's (ANSTO) medical isotope production facility announced in January that it had become the second in the world to install a high-resolution monitoring system to track emissions from its medical radioisotopes production facility under an initiative led by the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
ANSTO and PNNL said the detector system was installed in October at the medical isotope production facility at Lucas Heights. The first such system had been installed in a monitor stack at the Institute for Radioelements (IRE) at Fleurus in Belgium. Both IRE and ANSTO produce molybdenum-99 by irradiating uranium in a reactor. The process releases gaseous fission products including xenon isotopes. While representing no danger to the public, the isotopes resemble those produced by a nuclear explosion.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsansto-installs-emissions-monitoring-equipment-6970285
Sydney-based Silex is seeking to repatriate its Silex laser isotope separation process technology to Australia, after pulling out of plans to acquire a majority stake in GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) which included a proposed plant to be built near the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Paducah site in Kentucky, for commercialisation of Silex technology. It also intends to terminate GLE's exclusive licence for the technology, but said it will consider exploring commercialisation of the technology with third parties in other countries should opportunities arise if market conditions improve.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 22 June 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssilex-pulls-out-of-us-laser-enrichment-project-6216478
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
Global Laser Enrichment has announced plans to slow down its commercialization activities, blaming market conditions, but also said it remained optimistic about the technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 August 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgle-slows-down-but-continues-discussions-with-doe-over-paducah-4331773
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), and its subsidiary NTP Radioisotopes, have won an award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This award, worth up to US$25 million, is based on the successful commercial scale production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) using low enriched uranium (LEU) targets, and will be performed in collaboration with ANSTO of Australia. The total contract is up to $50 million.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 October 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssouth-africa-s-safari-1-wins-25-million-isotope-contract