Uranium & Fuel

Uranium & Fuel
Pilot plant for Lightbridge fuel mooted for Ohio

Pilot plant for Lightbridge fuel mooted for Ohio

Lightbridge Corporation and Centrus Energy Corp are to carry out a front-end engineering and design study to add a dedicated fabrication facility for Lightbridge's next-generation nuclear fuel at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.

Uranium & Fuel 08 December 2023


enCore and Boss Energy form strategic partnership

enCore and Boss Energy form strategic partnership

enCore Energy of the USA has entered into an agreement with Australia's Boss Energy, through which Boss will acquire a 30% stake in enCore's Alta Mesa in-situ leach project in South Texas.

Uranium & Fuel 06 December 2023


TRIGA International to produce fuel for US microreactor

TRIGA International to produce fuel for US microreactor

TRIGA International - a joint venture between Framatome and General Atomics - has been awarded a contract to fabricate TRIGA-like fuel for the US Department of Energy's Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation microreactor.

Uranium & Fuel 06 December 2023


ENEC and Kazatomprom sign commercial uranium contract

ENEC and Kazatomprom sign commercial uranium contract

Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom has signed its first commercial uranium fuel supply contract with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, for the United Arab Emirates' Barakah nuclear power plant.

Uranium & Fuel 04 December 2023


Texas uranium operation returns to production

Texas uranium operation returns to production

Uranium production has begun at enCore Energy Corp's South Texas Rosita Central Processing Plant (CPP). The restart of the plant which last produced yellowcake in 2008 is the first step in enCore's South Texas in-situ leach uranium production pipeline strategy.

Uranium & Fuel 01 December 2023


Urenco agrees supply deal with Energoatom to 2035

Urenco agrees supply deal with Energoatom to 2035

The contract will see Urenco continuing to supply Ukraine's Energoatom with enriched uranium until 2035, with an option to extend the contract to 2043. 

Uranium & Fuel 30 November 2023


Framatome planning UK nuclear fuel fabrication facility

Framatome planning UK nuclear fuel fabrication facility

French company Framatome is planning the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK as part of its plans to scale-up its operations in the country. In a separate development it also announced it was setting up a joint venture with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.

Uranium & Fuel 29 November 2023


First refuelling at floating nuclear power plant

First refuelling at floating nuclear power plant

Fresh nuclear fuel has been loaded into the starboard side reactor on the Akademik Lomonosov in the first operation of its kind, with the process due to be completed by the end of the year, Rosatom says.

Uranium & Fuel 24 November 2023


Hungary to consider alternative sources for nuclear fuel

Hungary to consider alternative sources for nuclear fuel

The Hungarian Parliament has reportedly supported an amendment to the country's nuclear energy policy that would allow alternative sources to be used for fuel for the Paks nuclear power plant, which has until now relied on Russian-supplied fuel.

Uranium & Fuel 24 November 2023


INL produces HALEU pellets for testing

INL produces HALEU pellets for testing

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory recently fabricated about two dozen commercial-grade high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel pellets for testing. A further 100-150 pellets are to be made for irradiation tests in the Advanced Test Reactor.

Uranium & Fuel 23 November 2023