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 French company Orano says litigation is now its only possible recourse after Niger's Council of Ministers announced plans to appropriate and nationalise the joint venture with Niger's state-owned mining assets company.

The first Westinghouse nuclear fuel assemblies have arrived at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant, as the Czech Republic continues to diversify its supplies.

Rosatom says that its fifth generation nuclear fuel assemblies have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core of Novovoronezh unit 6 as part of developments to involve VVER reactors in closing the nuclear fuel cycle.

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.