Innovative reactor developer Newcleo has acquired a site in Chusclan in the Gard department in southern France on which it will build an R&D innovation and training centre supporting the development of its future fuel assembly manufacturing facility in France.

Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil has signed a contract with Russia's Internexco for the temporary export for conversion and enrichment of 275,000 kilograms of uranium concentrate (U3O8) produced at the Uranium Concentration Unit in Caetité, Bahia.

Westinghouse and Spanish nuclear fuel manufacturer Enusa, which are celebrating 50 years of cooperation, have signed a new technology agreement that extends the current licensing agreement for 10 years.

France's Orano has signed an agreement to supply enrichment services for Ukraine's Energoatom through to 2040.

CEO Tim Gitzel said Cameco expects "supportive market conditions" throughout the fuel cycle and across the nuclear sector will drive strong financial growth in 2025 following strong performance across all sectors in 2024.

Kazakhstan's national atomic company Kazatomprom has signed its first-ever contract to supply uranium to Swiss nuclear power plants.

Lightbridge Corporation has hailed the co-extrusion demonstration of a coupon sample with uranium-zirconium alloy and cladding at Idaho National Laboratory as a significant milestone in the development of its innovative next-generation nuclear fuel.

The National Nuclear Energy Commission has given authorisation for Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil to seek an international buyer for 5.7 tonnes of U3O8 enriched to 3.2% uranium-235.

A new European research project, named EU-CONVERSION, has been launched with the aim of accelerating the conversion of high-performance research reactors by testing candidate low-enriched uranium fissile materials.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has begun analytical work as part of its safety assessment for the possible use of components from Bulgaria's discontinued Belene nuclear power plant project to complete Ukraine's unfinished Khmelnitsky units 3 and 4.

GE Vernova has announced plans to invest more than USD50 million in GE Hitachi's Wilmington site in North Carolina as part of USD600 million of investments across its US factories and facilities over the next two years.

Advanced nuclear fuel company Lightbridge and nuclear power plant developer Oklo have signed a memorandum of understanding for a feasibility study into co-locating their planned fuel fabrication facilities and to explore potential for collaboration in recycling nuclear waste.