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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.

Date: Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Testing-complete-for-laser-enrichment-module

All realistic options that might contribute to global net-zero must be considered, the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) has said in an open letter to COP26 President Alok Sharma. Nuclear systems and advanced reactors - such as Generation IV systems - can contribute to a net-zero society alongside renewable energies, it says.

Date: Saturday, 30 October 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GIF-calls-for-nuclear-s-inclusion-in-COP26-discuss

Nuclear energy, as an asset class, has the potential to report well against a wide range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data collection and accounting metrics, according to a new report from the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). This should allow nuclear energy to be considered as an investable asset class, thereby allowing nuclear companies and projects to access climate finance.

Date: Wednesday, 08 September 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GIF-highlights-nuclear-s-ESG-attributes

A common misconception about advanced nuclear technologies is that they are largely conceptual and will not be commercialised in time to contribute to meeting near-term climate goals, but a comprehensive look at global efforts to develop advanced nuclear reveals rapid progress towards commercialisation and operation, write Clean Air Task Force, ClearPath, Nuclear Innovation Alliance, Pillsbury and Third Way.

Date: Saturday, 10 July 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Advanced-reactor-development-makes-rapid

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.

Date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Uranium-companies-attracted-by-REE-and-vanadium

Public perception of nuclear power "has been defined almost by its failures rather than by its successes", and the industry has thus adopted a defensive posture, Adi Paterson, CEO of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation told delegates at the International Youth Nuclear Congress on 9 March. The challenge now for the 250 IYNC attendees is: "How to change the narrative of nuclear in a deep and profound way," he said.

Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Young-generation-will-change-narrative-on-nuclear

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.

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.

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.

Date: Friday, 22 June 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssilex-pulls-out-of-us-laser-enrichment-project-6216478

Global Laser Enrichment has announced plans to slow down its commercialization activities, blaming market conditions, but also said it remained optimistic about the technology.

Date: Friday, 01 August 2014
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgle-slows-down-but-continues-discussions-with-doe-over-paducah-4331773