Global Laser Enrichment has submitted its Safety Analysis Report for the planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This follows its submission in December 2024 of the Environmental Report, now completing GLE's full licence application for NRC review.

The company's American Centrifuge Operating, LLC subsidiary has met the 900 kg production target for the second phase of its three-phase contract to supply the US Department of Energy with high-assay, low-enriched uranium.

The US Department of Energy has exercised an option to extend the contract for the production of high-assay, low-enriched uranium until 30 June 2026, but additional options could allow for continued production for up to eight more years.

The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has told the agency's board of governors "nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could harm both people and the environment".

Production of enriched uranium has begun in the first new gas centrifuge cascade installed as part of Urenco USA's expansion of its plant in New Mexico.

Infrastructure company Costain has been selected by Urenco to carry out the front-end engineering design for the UK's first high-assay low-enriched uranium advanced fuels facility.

Global Laser Enrichment has begun large-scale demonstration testing at its Test Loop facility, which will take the SILEX laser enrichment process to Technology Readiness Level 6.

In the second of a two-part special report from the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference held in Canada, Claire Maden reports on the opportunities and challenges facing players across the entire fuel sector.

General Matter says it will use a novel, scalable, cost-competitive technology to address a "commercial bottleneck" in the US nuclear fuel cycle and will be shipping enriched uranium by the end of the decade.