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Rosatom announced that Mashinostroitelny Zavod (MSZ) part of the TVEL...
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Canada’s ARTMS registers cyclotron production of gallium-68
ARTMS, a Canadian producer of medical isotopes has registered the cyclotron production of gallium-68 with the government of Canada, filing a Type 1 Master File with the Health Products...
Another milestone for Russia’s Brest reactor fuel plant
Russia’s Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) has completed the installation of key equipment at the plant for the production of fuel for the BREST-OD-300 reactor, Rosatom’s Fuel Company...
Kazakhstan sets up physical uranium fund
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom announced that its Board of Directors had passed a resolution to participate in a physical uranium fund, ANU Energy OEIC Ltd.
Lightbridge fuel completes design plan for testing at INL
US-based nuclear fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation has completed work under the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear...
KHNP and CNL sign MOU on used fuel and decommissioning
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for technical cooperation in the field of used nuclear fuel...
Orano opens stable isotope lab
France’s Orano group said on 11 October that it recently celebrated the construction of the stable isotope laboratory on the Orano Tricastin site (Drôme).
Russia masters production of zirconium sponge
Russia’s Chepetsk Mechanical Plant in Glazov (ChMP part of Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL) has mastered the technology for the production of zirconium sponge, TVEL said on 5 October.
First ANEEL thorium-based advanced nuclear fuel pellets manufactured
US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy said the first fuel pellets of its proprietary thorium-based nuclear fuel called Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life (ANEEL) have...
Fuel unloaded from Leningrad 2
Unloading of nuclear fuel has begun fromthe RBMK-1000 reactor at unit 2 of the Leningrad NPP, which was shut down in November 2020 after 45 years of operation.
Terrestrial Energy and Orano sign fuel supply agreement
Canada-based Terrestrial Energy said on 29 September that it had entered into an agreement with Orano, as part of its fuel supply programme for operation of its Generation IV...
Romania’s Nuclearelectrica establishes subsidiary for uranium concentrate processing
Romanian nuclear utility Societatea Națională Nuclearelectrica (SNN) has informed shareholders and investors that on 24 September it had established SNN subsidiary, Uranium...
Bruce Power receives regulatory approval for Lutetium-177 production
Bruce Power said on 24 September that it had received approval from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to take the next step forward for new isotope production becoming...
Russia begins pilot operation of accident tolerant fuel
Rosatom on 20 September began pilot operation of fuel elements of a new generation of Russian accident tolerant fuel (ATF) at unit 2 of the Rostov NPP.
Orano inaugurates new innovation centre at former uranium mining site
French Prime Minister Jean Castex has inaugurated Orano’s new Centre for Innovation in Extractive Metallurgy (CIME) at the Bessines-sur-Gartempe site in the New Aquitaine region
REMIX fuel elements complete operational tests at Balakovo
Rosatom’s Fuel Company TVEL said that VVER-1000 fuel assemblies (FAs) containing experimental fuel elements with REMIX fuel, had been operated in the reactor at unit 3 of...
Cameco and X-energy to co-operate in support of Xe-100 SMRs
Cameco has entered a non-binding and non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with X-energy to explore possible areas of cooperation to support the potential future deployment,...
EBRD supports clean-up of uranium waste in Central Asia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on 15 September that, with its partners it was supporting nuclear remediation efforts in the Kyrgyz Republic.
IBA and SCK CEN to collaborate in production of Actinium-225
Belgium’s Ion Beam Applications (IBA) and Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN on 15 September announced a strategic R&D partnership to enable the production of actinium-225...
New generation centrifuges installed at Russia’s Electrochemical Plant
Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (ECP) in Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory (part of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company) has launched the third line of new generation gas...
