Lightbridge's advanced nuclear fuel technology has completed the final design review for its upcoming irradiation experiment at Idaho National Laboratory - and expects to benefit from a groundbreaking testing method developed by the lab.

Two of Laramide Resources Ltd's advanced-stage uranium development projects - Crownpoint-Churchrock and La Jara Mesa - have been designated FAST-41 Covered Projects by the US Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council.

Australian mineral company Aura Energy and Neu Horizon Uranium Limited plan to enter into a strategic collaboration agreement to develop Sweden's uranium resources should the country remove its prohibition on uranium mining.

France's Framatome is to supply ATRIUM 11 fuel assemblies to the Leibstadt nuclear power plant in Switzerland following the signing of a long-term contract with operator Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG.

The US Department of the Interior has approved Anfield Energy Inc's Velvet-Wood uranium-vanadium project in San Juan County, Utah, after the Bureau of Land Management completed its review of the project in less than 14 days.

The Czech Republic has taken delivery of the first 30 fuel assemblies for the Temelin nuclear power plant from Westinghouse as it replaces its previous supplier from Russia.

Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev has said the USA continues to buy enriched uranium from Russia and "in the context of the ongoing negotiations between the US and the Russian Federation ... we can expand the agenda of this cooperation".

Orano has begun serial production of ten 30B-10 cylinders designed for the transport of LEU+ - uranium hexafluoride enriched up to 10% uranium-235.

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.