French nuclear fuel cycle company Orano is preparing for the rapid increase in demand when new nuclear energy capacity comes online in the coming decades - but is also looking to renew and expand its reprocessing and recycling facility for used fuel for the longer term, CEO Nicolas Maes told the World Nuclear Symposium in London.
 

Andy White talks about the huge range of work Amentum is doing in the UK and internationally, from pre-project planning to decommissioning. We also hear from Nima Ashkeboussi about Global Laser Enrichment's technology and growth plans.

Advanced materials company ASP Isotopes, together with its Quantum Leap Energy LLC subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Fermi America to look into the development of a facility to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium using laser-based isotope separation technology in Texas.
 

US uranium enrichment startup General Matter has signed a lease with the Department of Energy for the reuse of federal land at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky for a new commercial uranium enrichment facility.
 

Slovenské elektrárne has signed a contract with Urenco Group for the supply of enriched uranium to its Bohunice and Mochovce nuclear power plants to the mid-2030s.

The new gas centrifuge for separating uranium isotopes, which Russia's TVEL describes as a tenth-generation machine, is to undergo pilot industrial operation.

The six-year modernisation project at the Electrochemical Plant in Zelenogorsk involved installing new generation gas centrifuges.

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.