Mikhail Baryshnikov, Head of Innovative Products Development Department for Russia’s Tenex and former chairman of World Nuclear Association’s Used Nuclear Fuel working group, explains what a closed nuclear fuel cycle is, and how it is being developed.
 

Denison Mines Corp has received provincial Environmental Assessment approval to develop the in-situ recovery uranium mine planned for the Wheeler River Project in northern Saskatchewan. Meanwhile, Denison has released the results of the Preliminary Economic Assessment for using the same mining technique at the Midwest Main uranium deposit, also in Saskatchewan.
 

The pilot uranium processing plant has been commissioned by Rosatom subsidiary Mantra Tanzania Ltd at the Mkuju River project in southern Tanzania.

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Russia's Rosatom and the Ministry of Energy in Niger to cooperate on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Uranium mining operations have started at the McClean Lake project in Saskatchewan, Canada, using the Surface Access Borehole Resource Extraction mining method, joint venture partners Orano Canada and Denison Mines have announced.

Exactly one year after construction began, China has produced its first barrel of natural uranium from its largest domestic project - the National Uranium No.1 demonstration project - in Ordos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

US microreactor technology company NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has signed a memorandum of understanding with Buenos Aires-based private uranium exploration company UrAmerica Ltd to help modernise and develop Argentina's nuclear fuel supply chain.

Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy and China General Nuclear Power Group have signed a letter of intent to cooperate on energy transition efforts, sustainability "and the peaceful and sustainable use of nuclear mineral resources in Brazil".

France's Orano and Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom and their Katco joint venture have announced the full implementation of operations at the South Tortkuduk uranium mining site.