WorldNuclear News
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Lightbridge fuel offers Pu management option
Simulations have shown that a fuel rod designed by the company significantly outperforms traditional MOX fuel in consuming plutonium, and would be...
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Centrus on track for HALEU demonstration by year-end
The US company has completed construction of a cascade of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges as well as most of the associated support systems...
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Cameco to supply Ukraine's uranium needs to 2035
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy utility Energoatom and Cameco Corporation have agreed commercial terms for a major supply contract that...
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Ministry upholds Berkeley licence denial
Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has upheld its refusal to authorise Berkeley Energia to build a...
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Iran announces start-up of uranium mine
Work has begun at the Narigan Mining and Industrial Complex in Yazd province, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has announced. AEOI...
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Companies pool resources to manufacture TRISO fuel
A joint venture between Framatome and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation plans to manufacture commercial quantities of TRISO fuel particles and fuel...
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Company reveals plans for new US uranium plant
Western Uranium & Vanadium has already acquired a site in Utah and begun work on designing and permitting the facility to process uranium,...
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Candu fuel plant relicensed to 2043
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's authorisation of the 20-year renewal of Cameco Fuel Manufacturing's operating licence for...
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Enusa and Westinghouse VVER-440 fuel collaboration
Spain's Enusa says it and Westinghouse Electric Company have formalised their cooperation agreement for the manufacture of VVER-440 fuel.
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US, Japan work together on fast reactor fuel safety
A research programme into the safety of fast reactor fuel that has been suspended since the 1990s will resume with tests due to begin at Idaho...