Newcleo announced it has initiated pre‑application engagement with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to support the future licensing of its first Lead-cooled Fast Reactor and an associated mixed‑oxide fuel fabrication facility in the USA.
 

Three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel have completed their third 18-month VVER-1000 fuel cycle at Russia's Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant.
 

France-based Newcleo and US-based Oklo have signed an agreement to develop advanced fuel fabrication and manufacturing infrastructure in the USA, with Sweden's Blykalla also considering investing in the project.
 

The Fuel Division of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has manufactured and accepted a unique OS-5 fuel assembly based on mixed nitride uranium-plutonium nuclear fuel with a liquid metal sublayer. Separately, the Mining and Chemical Combine is set to be the location of a MOX fuel plant to supply the BN-1200M fast reactor.
 

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.
 

The second complex of the Experimental and Demonstration Centre, which will process used nuclear fuel, has been launched, and follows an initial experimental stage.

Paris-headquartered Newcleo has received a favourable opinion from the council of the Aube Department region of eastern France to sell a plot of land in the Nogentais area, which could host the fast neutron reactor developer's mixed-oxide fuel manufacturing facility.

Russian nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has approved a 15-year life extension to 2040 for the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant's unit 3, a BN-600 fast neutron reactor.

Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical characteristics of the VVER-S reactor with MOX fuel.