Major financial difficulties facing SOMAÏR, the operator of the Arlit uranium mine in Niger, have led to the decision to suspend its activities from the end of October.

Framatome’s GAIA fuel assemblies with PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel technology have completed their third 18-month fuel cycle at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, having spent over four and a half years in an operating reactor. This concludes the assessment of the lead fuel assemblies.

Orano has created two specific 'sharing groups' which bring together the main designers of innovative fast neutron reactors in France. These groups, it says, are open to all designers of these types of reactors who wish to join.

The US Department of Energy has selected Louisiana Energy Services, Orano Federal Services, General Matter and American Centrifuge Operating to provide enrichment services to help establish a US supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium.

A range of future nuclear fuel developments, such as 24-month fuel campaigns with fuel enriched beyond 5%, will help Russia to hit its nuclear capacity targets, a conference has heard.

The US Department of Energy has approved the Conceptual Safety Design Report for Oklo Inc's Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The facility will fabricate fuel for the Aurora "powerhouse" liquid metal-cooled fast reactor plant which is to be located at the same site.

Uranium enrichment services provider Urenco has installed the first new centrifuges as part of an expansion of its plant in Eunice, New Mexico. Meanwhile, Orano has laid the foundation stone of the extension of its Georges Besse 2 plant in France.

Spain's Centrales Nucleares Almaraz-Trillo has awarded a contract for fuel assembly deliveries and related services from 2026-2035 for the Trillo nuclear power plant's unit 1 to France's Framatome.

Six companies have been awarded contracts worth a minimum of USD2 million each to provide deconversion services, a critical part of the supply chain for high-assay low-enriched uranium.

Lotus Resources says it can reopen the Kayelekera uranium mine in Malawi in 8-10 months - much quicker than its previous 15 month estimate. It is now targeting production in the third quarter of 2025.

Processing plant equipment that is beginning to arrive at the Dasa mine site has been shipped via Nigeria, but Global Atomic is hopeful that border restrictions between Niger and Benin will soon be resolved.

IsoEnergy is to acquire Anfield Energy - owner of the licensed and permitted Shootaring Canyon uranium mill in Utah - while Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp has agreed to purchase the Pinon Ridge Corporation, whose Colorado site has previously been licensed for a uranium mill.